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Hmmm, wonder what Bautistas' stats would be or Alex Espargaro or a few others might be......not too dissimilar I think and as for CC bankrupting Honda through crashes well MM seems to have cornered the market in crashing Hondas. Seems like some people take a position based on visceral irrational prejudice or maybe even straightforward anti Brit racism then try to find some way of supporting it. Just what it looks like to me......but I could be wrong and leave it to the judgement of others who may be a bit more rational than some on here....
salieri
A nice guy with a smile other than when Dani picked him up in Estoril.
Never whined about anyone and just enjoyed the life that he was born into. Was lucky to have ridden and raced some of the finest examples of two wheeled engineering and more importantly, there was true heartfelt loss from all the people who met him when he did leave this mortal world.
Nothing fake about him and that was the mark he left people with
A 1
Inclined to agree with this theory.
Plus I don't think the sponsors would be too impressed... hit them in the wallet if you can't get through to their brains
Navelgazer
anyone else dying to see some sort of table which shows how many offenses each rider is on??
On a serious note, saddened to hear only 1 rider has had no penalties all year - I genuinely believe it's going to take a tragedy to make these kids realise the dangers.
Change the format, nobody is entertained by watching them cruise round slowly and waiting to hear what the penalties will be anyway.
Navelgazer
You are for the most part right, NITRO NORI. Jerez has probably come around a weekend too early but I would see no harm in Byrne having a bit of private testing on a factory Ducati for a day or two, then have a go in Qatar if all parties think he will be up to speed.
anon7
Favourite memory is him giving Earl a backie, knowing full well he was gonna get a heavy fine & some strong disciplinary words, and not giving a sh1t about anything apart from celebrating with the old man.
RIP NH69, always with us
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