I bet Rossi will walk away from Ducati before the end of next month if not before. Ducati will say they sacked him of course.
Is it me, or has Stoner never lost a race without him trotting out a mitigating excuse for being beaten? I think that young man needs to learn how to acknowledge being bettered on the day because another rider rode better than him.
This is all in Rossi's head
..yet rossi won many world championships on what started out as dog bikes ( M1 yamaha in 2003 anyone ??)...
Andyref Toselands injury ...I have posted b4 that I empathize with JT cos I had almost the same injury from a bike crash. Its actually an impossible injury to recover from. Full stop. End of story. So please just stop thinking JT somehow wimped out. His wrist injury is non operable, non recoverable.He , like me is living on borrowed time before his wrist will need a full fusion , at which point any sort of wrist movement is ceased = great difficulty in using the throttle.As road rider thi swill create great difficulty in riding a bike, let alone race one.... It really makes me mad when people who know absolutely zilch about an injury profess wisdom on such ....JT was forced out , not wimped out.
well its interesting that you feel the 2004 world championship maybe would then have been won by any yamaha rider !
And to think a couple of years ago some Rossi fans slated Lorenzo for only doing well on the bike 'Rossi developed'.
I think the whole issue comes down to what seems to be a very english concept of knocking winners.
Rossis skills are so extreme he has to have machinery to do the job, to match stoner ( who is probably the best current rider in the world) on a slower bike is a big ask..
and moved at the same time its become the best bike out there.Look at how easily he and pedrosa just wafted past everyone at quatar...lorenzo won by hanging on ,
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