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Lorenzo says that Spies will be an easier teammate than Rossi.  In other news, water is wet.

http://www.crash.net/motogp/news/165425/1/lorenzo_spies_relationship_will_be_easier_than_rossi.html (http://www.crash.net/motogp/news/165425/1/lorenzo_spies_relationship_will_be_easier_than_rossi.html)

...easier... ?

Once Ben's mom settles in Yorgay's gonna wish Rossi was still there... [evil]   ;D

I'd love to see Spies's mom and Jorge's dad go at it. Too bad he fired him a while ago.
 

HELL...I'd love to see Mary jump in Jorge's shit personally...

especially after say Jorge pulls some Dani on Nicky Repsol kind of move....

george continues to support my opinion of him.

I hope your opinion is a good one then, there is absolutely nothing in that article that could conceivably be twisted or doublethought into something negative.

The Ben would have to catch, and pass Jorge for that to happen ;)

ORLY?

“Ben seems like a nice guy,” Lorenzo told Crash.net Radio in an exclusive interview. “Our relationship is good. We share some jokes together, and I think it's going to be a little bit easier than with Valentino. We are rivals, we are competitors and we are going to fight to try to beat each other  – that's the reality –but our relationship is going to be  okay. Ben pushed me this year already! Next year with a factory bike and  with more experience, for sure he is going to fight for wins – and maybe for the world title."

my opinion of him isn't bad at all.  it's just.... blah.  he's a bowl of mush. 

off-track, of course.

[laugh] [laugh] [laugh] [laugh] [laugh]

Hey, different strokes for different folks.

Dude's a lot more humble than you'd think.
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did you watch any of his 250 seasons?

 [thumbsup]

...AND the awards banquet!

Sure did. He was an absolute ass. He was also a teenager. That's why I said, IS and not Was.

Jacket should have read Million Dollar Twat.

I like him because of how he rides. I've also come to like some of the stuff he does off camera. Like the foundation where he helps poor children get into racing. No PR involved.

Poor children need to get into college, not racing.  Cuz racing just makes your poorer.  So he's helping these kids stay poor.  My gawd, he's such a douche that he even hates poor children.  What a dick.

[laugh]

and i don't hate the guy at all.  nor am i annoyed at him anymore for his 250 antics; i think he shaped up remarkably when he got to the majors.  nor do i think he is not deserving of whatever he has; he sure as hell is, where riding is concerned.  off-track he just makes me involuntarily stop paying attention.  i don't identify with him.

 

Isn't he your age? ;D

Zing!

I thought this thread was going to be about seeing the sun for the first time this year above Seattle.

Anyway, Jorge and Val are very very similar and putting them together made for some drama. Ben is humble and, I believe, will eventually become a thorn in Jorge's side, driving Jorge even more insane than Val. For now, they will play the happy couple.

ben's quite a bit more mentally tough than his general low-key, regular guy demeanor would seem to indicate.  mladin saw to that.  he'll take what he can from jorge and then use it against him. 

..reminds me, i wonder if dovi is permanently broken.   ;D

totally agree

Jorge bores me too.  I think off track he a smarmy Spaniard, with a constant "I just make the beast with two backsed your girlfriend" expression. On track his riding is too smooth. The only time I had any fun was when Rossi was trying to knee him outta the way.  I hope to see him more challenged next season.  I think that will change both his on and off track behavior. 

I'd be pissed too if he had screwed my GF.  ;)

That doesn't mean everything you wrote isn't true. And we're not smarmy, just confident in our superiority.  ;D

Jorge make the beast with two backsed my girlfriend and hates poor kids.  What a dick.   

That is, of course, if you HAD a girlfriend, which as far as I know, you do NOT.

[Laugh][Laugh] Ouch.... Love you too, hon :-*

Really? because you sure as hell have shown quite the contrary [mod edit]  ;D

regardless, what makes Jorge such a joy to watch is his incredible ego - irrational risks make for good racing. I am baffled that anyone could find his still anything but at least still entertaining. Say what you will about him, he's a joy to watch! as was Elias. I still have my money (and my heart) on the factory Ben, though. It might be a Texan thing, or it might just be that I want to have his babies, but 2011 is going to be a blast!

I've met Jorge at a thing here in SF and he seemed like a decent enough guy. He seemed to appreciated that I made the effort of speak Spanish to him even though I probably sounded like "I AM HAPPY TO BE NEAR TO YOU AND AM JOLLY TO SEE YOU COUNTENANCE! OKAY TO TAKE PAINTING WITH YOUR STANDING NEXT TO ME?"

As for the whole "he's an aloof bastard" thing, I think he's just got one of those faces that always looks like he just ate something unpleasant.

Basically he just suffers from the Spanish curse of Doucheface.

As for his racing style... I like that he hates to be beaten and takes chances to see that doesn't happen. I wish we'd see more of that in the next season

  [laugh]

Actually, we Spaniards are just genuinely douchey people in many ways.
It is our plight for being better than everyone else  ;)
Still damn friendly and fun, over all - but the Spanish ego did destroy entire civilizations and will always remain.