Has your Attitude towards Stoner Changed?

[duccarlos]

You simply can't compare MotoGP to WSBK. It's just so far between them that it's impossible to even make an attempt. We shall see when we see.

[gm2]

You simply can't compare MotoGP to WSBK. It's just so far between them that it's impossible to even make an attempt. We shall see when we see.

[fastwin]

Not to vear off topic target, but I wonder what Checa thinks about the 1199? You damn well know he's tested it too. And you are right, Bayliss would shoot straight. If it was a piece of shit he would have pulled in after 2 laps and told them so.

On topic, I just don't think anyone but Stoner could do what he did with their MotoGP bikes. Don't know why or how but I just feel that way. Hayden is a trooper and hard worker and what else can be said about Rossi? If those two couldn't find the cure no one could. What does that say about Stoner? Given a better bike look what he did this year!

[gm2]

all things being relative (experience, equipment, etc) he showed this kind of speed, or promise of, in 2006 also.

re the ducati, the thing that makes stoner a very unique GP rider is he doesn't give a yank what the bike is doing.  most other GP riders are quite the opposite.

[Spidey]

My attitude toward Stoner has not changed in the slightest, i.e., I still wanna sleep with his wife.

[gm2]

even, like, now..?

[Spidey]

Yup.  Cuz that's how I roll (an in this case, there might be actually rolling involved).   

[EvilSteve]

My attitude toward Stoner has not changed in the slightest, i.e., I still wanna sleep with his wife.

If there was a like button I would have clicked it. 

[fastwin]

 

[gm2]

http://www.motomatters.com/interview/2011/12/19/casey_stoner_interview_on_riding_fast_em.html

[Jester]

http://www.motomatters.com/interview/2011/12/19/casey_stoner_interview_on_riding_fast_em.html

Great read.  I may have to like him slightly after that article.   

[zooom]

some very smart non-antagonistic questions that got great answers....

[triangleforge]

Great read; Stoner has long reminded me of something Nikki Lauda said to explain his success - something like "I have the most sensitive ass in Formula One," by which he meant that he could sense exactly what the car was doing and how close he was to the edge, and how to recover when he went over that edge.

That really seems to come through with Stoner in this interview -- that intuitive, natural sense of what the bike's up to and what the interviewer calls muscle memory to ride around it.

[Triple J]

Good article. Thanks. 

[zooom]

and then blurbs like this come out....

http://www.superbikeplanet.com/2011/Dec/111229b.htm