MOTOGP » Gresini completes 2008 rider line-up

i do hope gresini has a big big money sponsor for 08 as with crasher deangelis and opps i hit the deck again nakano on board he is going to be reapairing a hell of a lot of bikes next ye******* i feel sorry for the mechanics they are going to earn their pay next year

... Management problem in Honda...

A man is flying in a hot air balloon and realizes he is lost. He reduces height and spots a man down below. He lowers the balloon further and shouts,"Excuse me, can you help me? I promised my friend I would meet him half an hour ago, but I don't know where I am."
The man below says, "Yes. You are in a hot air balloon, hovering
approximately 30 feet above this field. You are between 40 and 42 degrees N. latitude, and between 58 and 60 degrees W. longitude."
"You must be an engineer" says the balloonist.
"I am" replies the man. "How did you know?"
"Well" says the balloonist, "everything you have told me is technically correct, but I have no idea what to make of your information, and the fact is I am still lost."
The man below says, "You must be a manager."
"I am" replies the balloonist, "but how did you know?"
"Well," says the man, "you don't know where you are, or where you are going. You have made a promise, which you have no idea how to keep, and you expect me to solve your problem.
The fact is you are in the exact same position you
were in before we met, but now it is somehow my fault."

Max may not be a nice guy, but he'd made himself a sacrifice by being the first to speak out. Now that the crap hondas are being plain for everyone to see this year, Melandri had had the audacity to show his frustration. Pedrosa had threatened not to renew his contract earlier in the year. The discontent of other honda riders are also no secret as well. The difference now is that honda don't dare to be nasty with them all this time. Let's hope they (honda) will be further humbled next year.

Chu

Nicky haYdon has had 5 yrs at honda 3 wins 1 jammy championship and no where in this yrs championship, should he not be sacked, when,s danni going to deliver, dont just knock 1 guy bexcause he moened, only rossi and stoner have deliverd in the last few years, why has edwards still got a job and caprarossi, our these the best riders in the world

just how i see it.

well max went to honda repsol , it was up to him to do well. he did f all. you re telling me the honda is a crap bike? champ in 06 (without the best rider in it), runner up in 04 and 05 ... and it s one o0f the best bikes at the end of 07, just hamopered by the sh1t tyres michelin have made.
so when others talk loud about their bikes, they re whining , ehrn biaggi does, he s telling the truth. seriously, biaggi days in mgp are long gone. nobody there cares about him. last thing u need is an overpaid rider who will not get any wins and will talk sh1t about his team and bike non stop.

Chu

Nicky hayden 2003-2007 repsol honda 3 wins what a hero
Danny pedrosa 2006-2007 3 wins what a hero
marco malandri 2005-2007 5 wins good bike this honda (now going to ducati)
tony elias 2005-2007 1 win this bike is not crap
colin edwards wont bother with him 5 ys no wins (******)

So is the honda really good which makes max a lier, or are the riders *********

all max diid was tell the truth,

It's only one japanese rider: Nitro Nori !

At least Dovi's bike color will be yellow/black (Kopron team Scot) but number can't be 34...

Plus, he did f all in Honda Repsol ... Nicky didnt have a great year either and still kicked his butt

I don't think it's wrong for Honda to apply a veto to Max.
Some riders forget that the only point of a factory racing is as marketing promotion, and if you have a rider who is bitching and moaning all the time, criticizing the team and equipment, then this is highly damaging and defeats the whole point of racing.
Max did this with Yamaha and was shown the door, then did the same, only worse, with Honda, with the same result.
However good a rider he may be, he simply isn't a team player and he really doesn't seem to learn the lesson. He's made his own bed.

Honda stamps it's will on the whole sport,
they stop developing twostroke bikes for the smaller class and the result is a rediculous change
of turning the 250cc into a 600cc fourstroke class by 2010.
This ruins the sport, it has nothing to do with making racing cheaper,
they just can't stand being beat by Aprilia and KTm all the time.
It is sad that a fantastic rider like Dovizioso doesn't end up in the Gresini squad instead of de Angelis,
don't think he will do wonders in the Montiron squad next year...