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« on: August 04, 2011, 12:53:18 PM »
Might as well get the pot stirring since we're halfway through GP and 2/3 done with WSBK.

Rossi on a Honda?

http://www.allaboutbikes.com/motorcycle-sports/motogp-racing/motogp-racing/5607-rossi-to-ditch-ducati-for-honda
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« Reply #1 on: August 04, 2011, 12:58:40 PM »
Quote from: Jester on August 04, 2011, 12:53:18 PM
Might as well get the pot stirring since we're halfway through GP and 2/3 done with WSBK.

Rossi on a Honda?

http://www.allaboutbikes.com/motorcycle-sports/motogp-racing/motogp-racing/5607-rossi-to-ditch-ducati-for-honda

...or on a Duc in WSBK. I have a nagging feeling that MotoGP is going to become a game of musical chairs...fewer and fewer seats each round, with people leaving the game for greener pastures.
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« Reply #2 on: August 04, 2011, 01:03:17 PM »
I would believe it more if they said he was going back to Yamaha.
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« Reply #3 on: August 04, 2011, 01:40:49 PM »
or it was just Rossi's way of saying I'd go ride for a satelite team rather than riding your pos if you don't get your engineering act together.
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« Reply #4 on: August 04, 2011, 02:19:28 PM »
way too many things make that highly unlikely.
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« Reply #5 on: August 08, 2011, 06:19:34 AM »
Quote from: gm2 on August 04, 2011, 02:19:28 PM
way too many things make that highly unlikely.

like for 1-his very publicly made known high disdain for Honda and how they treated him....

2-Marlboro would have a field day suing him for breach of contract and make his life a legal hell...

3-Italian faithfuls would lambast him by the truckload...

now...for what it is worth...let me offer an alternate thought as to potentially why he actually might be talking to Honda about next year....doesn't Uccio run a Moto2 team for him that he is funding, that could potentially be feeling out a potential bike for 2012 for that team?...now THAT may have some tractionable meat to it....
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« Reply #6 on: August 08, 2011, 08:26:29 AM »
Quote from: zooom on August 08, 2011, 06:19:34 AM
2-Marlboro would have a field day suing him for breach of contract and make his life a legal hell...

you're assuming the contract doesn't have an out clause.  it probably has 50.
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« Reply #7 on: August 09, 2011, 03:21:03 PM »
Different source...about 5-pages in.

http://mag.gpweek.com/
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« Reply #8 on: August 09, 2011, 03:42:50 PM »
Rossi on the Honda, and Simo on the Duc?

I thought Rossi liked Simo.
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« Reply #9 on: August 10, 2011, 06:25:13 AM »
More rumors abound that Ducati will pull a Honda and have 3 factory Ducs on the grid with Simo. I need to find the article, but it blamed the financial issues caused by the earthquake as a possible reason to drop factory support for both Dovi and Simo. That means it's highly unlikely they would want to bring in Rossi.
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« Reply #10 on: August 10, 2011, 06:56:32 AM »
Quote from: duccarlos on August 10, 2011, 06:25:13 AM
More rumors abound that Ducati will pull a Honda and have 3 factory Ducs on the grid with Simo. I need to find the article, but it blamed the financial issues caused by the earthquake as a possible reason to drop factory support for both Dovi and Simo. That means it's highly unlikely they would want to bring in Rossi.

That'd be interesting...if only for the possibility of seeing all 3 factory ducs in a pile in the gravel Grin
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« Reply #11 on: August 10, 2011, 07:04:04 AM »
well....maybe Simo's wrecklessness on the Honda would prove to put results up for Ducati ala Stoner on Honda 2006 vs Ducati 2007 in terms of not knowing any better and pushing the more bin it or win it angle and getting the front CF frame to front end feel that has been alluded to as missing for the 'Stones to heat up....
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« Reply #12 on: August 10, 2011, 07:18:36 AM »
Quote from: zooom on August 10, 2011, 07:04:04 AM
well....maybe Simo's wrecklessness on the Honda would prove to put results up for Ducati ala Stoner on Honda 2006 vs Ducati 2007 in terms of not knowing any better and pushing the more bin it or win it angle and getting the front CF frame to front end feel that has been alluded to as missing for the 'Stones to heat up....

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« Reply #13 on: August 10, 2011, 10:13:23 AM »
Quote from: duccarlos on August 10, 2011, 06:25:13 AM
That means it's highly unlikely they would want to bring in Rossi.

they just have to agree to supply him with the bike.. i'm sure he can set up his own team and sponsors
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« Reply #14 on: August 10, 2011, 11:20:57 AM »
Quote from: gm2 on August 10, 2011, 10:13:23 AM
they just have to agree to supply him with the bike.. i'm sure he can set up his own team and sponsors

true, but I doubt Rossi would go to a team without factory support.
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