MOTOGP » Stoner stoned in Brno

There can be no comparison of stoner with Valentino.Rossi is THE BEST and is a legend.If Rossi rides the Ducati I am sure he will lap stoner.

I find it interesting that immediately after the brno crash - the reason why it happened was a mystery, until a more convincing reason is found: the set up was difficult coz the ducati was leaning too aggressively..what a pacifier, first Rossi was aggressive in laguna,, now ducati in brno...
peace to all!!
must be Dorna's favorite..

'the perfect size gravel'
did it have the yamaha tuning fork logo engraved on it???????

All the comments about CS growing up would sound plausible if it was a one off but you all so easily forgot he was, in my opinion, worse last year when he won the championship. LS was in no way a one off slip...
I'll do a deal I won't ask you to like Rossi if you stop insistantly like tell everyone Stoners OK, quite frankly it's pathetic....

Clint - amen to that.. racing for so long has made him as good as he is, maturing and developing a personality is another matter... but as an Aussie like yourself, I hope it happens. Hey, in a recent interview, JB said 'you wouldn't recognise Doohan as the same bloke now' (not verbatim but close enough) and heck, Schumacker has become human now he's taken up racing bikes. I just hope Stoner can do it a bit sooner in his development... how about we all give him say to the end of this year and see how he handles losing the WC (or winning it if he's good and lucky enough)?

Oscar enjoyed the chat gotta go to a school reunion now and stuff my face with greek food. .bye and lets all hope we get a great race next sunday with the all of the riders finishing.

Oscar us mere mortals can only wonder .I like others have tried to like Casey and yeah he is only young but he has been racing for a long time as he did say so himself. I think he will mature heaps after this season as a rider a person and role model.The guys at Ducati will be hoping so too cos at the end of the day and i hate that expression so much biut it is all about selling bikes and bits

Clint - sounds like you have done competitive work on a bike - I only ever raced cars for a little while - and you know about the adrenalin rush and that strange sort of 'dead calm', slightly numb feeling when you finish a really hard run. I try to imagine what it would be like to be someone who is fairly shy anyway, who has worked towards a world top ride for years on the other side of the world since the onset of puberty and who suddenly hits it and is expected to be a suave, cool, together person at the end of a balls-out race against a legend - and mate, I just can't even begin to guess whether I could count backwards from 10, let alone have my **** together after a race like Laguna

Oscar i got my first bike at 12 an xr75 k3 my folks would not let me race so used to race my mate on his yz 80 c at a track down the road my mate tim was an australian champion and had a superior bike but i persisted and learnt the track like the back of my hand and eventually had his measure . it took lots of spills and skin but i got it in the end.the adrenalin never ends i still get it when i ride fast now.it is no comparism to GP i know that but at 46 i have some regrets.and not racing is one of them.I always followed honda riders due to it being my first of many bikes and hence became a rossi fan and when he jumped on a yami i had to move too.i now own a r-46

Clint - I seem to be hogging this thread and I apologise for that but I'm enjoying the exchange of views. Don't know if you've ever done any racing (and moto has, I'd love to hear his take on it) but I did a little and I found that the level of mental discipline required was intense: at the end of a race it amazed me that I could get a lighter to my cigarette accurately, I was that charged/drained - and I was just a mid-field runner at club level. The idea of facing the world press and stringing words together a few minutes after a race for the WC is incomprehensible to me: that Rossi can do it with such fluent grace is a wonder.