Has your Attitude towards Stoner Changed?

[DRKWNG]

Don't really see that as being all that douchey.  After all, Vale & Burgess were talking quite a bit of smack about Casey and were proved wrong.  I can understand how this victory would be all the sweeter for Casey.

[Triple J]

and then blurbs like this come out....

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

Nothing at all wrong with what he said IMO. He's just telling the truth.

[zooom]

there is just a certain snideness from it is all....

[koko64]

Good read. He's smart and growing up. More straight up and not whiney.

Talks cheap, he should've smacked Rossi in the mouth after Laguna and the crash last year. Fans will forgive and respect a tough guy/hardass, but maybe not someone who looks like they're whining.

I tell ya, Gibernau lost his chance at the championship, when he got all whiney after Rossi punted him into the scrub after that pass. On the way to the podium he had his chance to smack him but he complained abouwt his sthore shoulder to Rossi instead of belting him, and from that moment he lost the championship. Rossi knew he could get away with it and had the mental advantage.

How's this relevant? I think Stoner is beginning to understand this stuff.

[duccarlos]

Don't really see that as being all that douchey.  After all, Vale & Burgess were talking quite a bit of smack about Casey and were proved wrong.  I can understand how this victory would be all the sweeter for Casey.

+1 He was reacting to direct comments. Ducati has proven that they could not make it any better by going backwards. If anything it proves that Ducati engineers did not care what the riders feedback was until Vale appeared.

[CairnsDuc]

+1 He was reacting to direct comments. Ducati has proven that they could not make it any better by going backwards. If anything it proves that Ducati engineers did not care what the riders feedback was until Vale appeared.

And that, up until Rossi walked through the door seemed to be the Mentality of Ducati, The Machine is perfect, it is the Rider that is flawed, how does that kind of thought process win races? it doesn't unless you get some kind of freak like Casey who could ride around the problems of the Desmosidici (and let's be honest, he is a bit of a freak because no one else has been able to master the recalcetrent Bike)

If I had to deal with that day in day out, I know I would have been considered a whiny little pregnant dog! 

Still amazes me to see the Backflip that Ducati has done since Rossi has walked through the door and said the bike handles like a big piece of Poo!

[The Don]

And that, up until Rossi walked through the door seemed to be the Mentality of Ducati, The Machine is perfect, it is the Rider that is flawed, how does that kind of thought process win races? it doesn't unless you get some kind of freak like Casey who could ride around the problems of the Desmosidici (and let's be honest, he is a bit of a freak because no one else has been able to master the recalcetrent Bike)

That is the reason Rossi left Honda I recall

[EvilSteve]

That is the reason Rossi left Honda I recall

And the reason Rossi didn't go to Ducati back then as well.

[koko64]

Be good to see Stoner win it again and then Ducati chase him. Then he could really prove a point, but in reality he'd be crazy to leave Honda.