2009 MotoGP Round 15 - Phillip Island (Race Spoilers)

[ducpainter]

Nicky can't catch a break...

Yorgy needs to finish races to be able to win...

maybe Rossi will point that out to him.

[bdfinally]

I wonder what Wayne Gardner had to say after this STFU moment

“Physically, I was able to do the same from start to finish, and I was just really happy with the way everything was working. Especially with my body; every lap I kept going past the point where I used to just hit my wall. It made me smile, and I enjoyed each lap after that. It’s very nice to be back here, and I thank Marlboro for allowing me to use this livery and to the team and everybody for supporting me. To do three from three is a very nice way to end the year for me.”

[derby]

I wonder what Wayne Gardner had to say after this STFU moment

probably the same thing he said from the beginning:

"It's very suspicious, I wish there had have been some sort of answer to it, that he'd come out with some sort of answer, because there is certainly an air of mystery to it.''

"I personally haven't ever seen anyone just stop for a rest during the year in my time of grand prix racing. It's certainly an unanswered question,'' he said.

"I don't think it puts a question mark on him as a competitor but it would just be nice to know what was the reasoning for it … I think he probably needs to come up with some answers.''

"I don't tell him how to ride his motorbike and that's the way he does things, but it's certainly very unusual and very unique that someone stops and has a rest for three or four races in the middle of the year and then comes back out and races and says, 'I'm better now'.''

[Desmostro]

probably the same thing he said from the beginning: "casey handled the whole situation poorly."

And won handing vale's ass to
him.Boo hoo

[derby]

And won handing vale's ass to
him.Boo hoo

i doubt vale was too heartbroken over his second place. casey is about to lose his second world championship in a row and rossi is about to put an eighth feather in his cap.

[derby]

“I read on my board that Lorenzo was out, so I tried for the victory. Casey set a good pace, but my bike setting was good so I tried to follow him at 100%, but also had to remember not to make any mistakes for the championship after Lorenzo’s crash. It was a great battle. I tried, at one part of the race it was possible to attack, but at the end it was too risky and anyway Casey had a great race.”
“These 20 points are so important for my championship. I have to thank Yamaha and all the guys in my team because we worked well this weekend and now we have a 38-point advantage with two races to go and we will try to do better next week in Sepang.”

[Desmostro]

That's a good excuse. There's no denying Vale's mastery, and he'll prolly win the title baring any craziness. But Casey won fair and square after a whole lot of bullshit ney saying and drama.

“I read on my board that Lorenzo was out, so I tried for the victory. Casey set a good pace, but my bike setting was good so I tried to follow him at 100%, but also had to remember not to make any mistakes for the championship after Lorenzo’s crash. It was a great battle. I tried, at one part of the race it was possible to attack, but at the end it was too risky and anyway Casey had a great race.”
“These 20 points are so important for my championship. I have to thank Yamaha and all the guys in my team because we worked well this weekend and now we have a 38-point advantage with two races to go and we will try to do better next week in Sepang.”

[Desmostro]

I think Nicky's mom broke Lorenzo's nose.

Rossi said something like "this was the most fun 2nd place of my career".

Casey is the man! I don't care what was wrong with him, it's good to see him back.
And what's with all those pretty women in his pit??

Poor luck for Lorenzo. Worst possible scenario. He even had his right hand bandaged after the crash. And something on his nose...Any news on this?
Only 4-5 days until Malaysia.


Cheers.

[EvilSteve]

i doubt vale was too heartbroken over his second place. casey is about to lose his second world championship in a row and rossi is about to put an eighth feather in his cap.

Are you seriously defending Rossi and taking a shot a Stoner?

That's probably one of the least classy things I've seen written in a serious thread by one of the good guys for some time. Wow.

[ducpainter]

Are you seriously defending Rossi and taking a shot a Stoner?

That's probably one of the least classy things I've seen written in a serious thread by one of the good guys for some time. Wow.

I didn't read it that way.

<snip>

And what's with all those pretty women in his pit??

<snip>


Cheers.

Possibly the cause of the stamina issue?   

[derby]

Are you seriously defending Rossi and taking a shot a Stoner?

That's probably one of the least classy things I've seen written in a serious thread by one of the good guys for some time. Wow.

i probably should've expounded a bit on my point.

if it read that way, i blame it on waking up at 4a, lack of early morning coffee, and the tone of the "gardner/stfu" and "boo hoo" comments. 

regarding the finish of today's race, stoner was fast all weekend and had nothing to lose. once lorenzo was out, rossi had no reason to push the issue with stoner.

regarding the comments about his recent absence, i think that the perception is the we've been saying stoner was done, finished, washed-up, etc., and that's not the case, at least not from my end. my position is that he very much handled the situation about as poorly as possible with regards to ducati and marlboro.

[Jester]

regarding the comments about his recent absence, i think that the perception is the we've been saying stoner was done, finished, washed-up, etc., and that's not the case, at least not from my end. my position is that he very much handled the situation about as poorly as possible with regards to ducati and marlboro.

+1 as that being the general feeling about Stoner

I had said in another thread, but time away from the track isn't going to slow these guys down.  They take off all winter and are running full speed in a day after they return.  Stoner has won one of two races I predicted he might.  Valencia will probably be his other victory.

I don't think Stoner handed Vale his ass at all.  Stoner was pushing 100%+ during that race and Vale pretty much stuck on his butt the entire race.  They were sliding the hell out of those bikes and Vale had no reason at all to push that hard, knowing his championship is pretty much wrapped up.  I think he was having the time of his life riding like that behind Stoner.  On the cool down Rossi pointed to Stoner after the handshake almost to say "damn you were batshit fast today, thumbs up."
They pretty much ran pole laps for half the race.  That was a fun one, win or lose imo.

[bdfinally]

I think Gardner's comment's were much the same as Schwantz's, that Stoner wasn't "tough enough," in that "back in the day" sense.

Casey Stoner, who recently silenced his critics by taking a podium finish at last weekend’s Portuguese MotoGP, says he has lost respect for Kevin Schwantz. Last month, Schwantz had implied in an interview that things weren’t right with Stoner, that he made a surprisingly incorrect tyre choice at Donington and that he should be out there competing and doing his best to win, rather than missing multiple races because of some mystery illness.

Now that Stoner is back – and seems to be winning as effortlessly as ever – he has something to say about Kevin. ‘What he said really upset me. I've lost a lot of respect for Kevin Schwantz after what he said. I had a lot of respect for that guy – he’s been one of my favourite riders and probably one of the most exciting riders to watch. When somebody like that says something like that, it shows you that experience counts for nothing, which is what I've been trying to tell people for a long time now,’ says Stoner.

‘I saw the Kevin Schwantz thing and it really made me laugh. It pissed me off at the same time, because I had a lot of respect for those riders. Jeremy McWilliams as well. I mean, what the hell do they know? Really, what do they know? Everyone's sitting there with an opinion, when they know nothing and they don't know the situation. They couldn't see that I was sick after every race. You know, we had an issue, we had a problem, and we had to fix it. And it's nice to come back and show people that we've fixed it. We did have a problem, and now we're back,’ says the 2007 MotoGP world champ.

I watched the race on a Britsh Eurosport feed. Moody/Ryder spent alot of the second half of the race talking about both of them running at 100%, about Val's need to put Casey back in his box and how Stoner was doing something totally amazing and wonderous, considering he hadn't trained in 5 months and that, with this and Estoril, all his critics should be silenced. I agree with them, it was a STFU moment.

[desmoquattro]

Did anyone catch the legacy ride with Doohan, Bayliss, and Gardner riding streetbikes around the circuit? Doohan lit that CBR's rear tire up the entire length of the straight...just plain awesome

[derby]

Did anyone catch the legacy ride with Doohan, Bayliss, and Gardner riding streetbikes around the circuit? Doohan lit that CBR's rear tire up the entire length of the straight...just plain awesome

gardner did it all the way out of the pit straight.