MOTOGP » Kawasaki ponder dismal weekend

DFH, my comment was not aimed at the Italian part of this thread, but your comment that I was as clued up as Kawasaki's management. If you read my short post, I said that I hope Marco can do better, but cast doubt on this because of his lack of development experience with a factory team, which is where I think most of the development work is done. There is only so much you can do with a satellite bike. So, after all that, what I was saying was that I was not sure that Kawasaki management had the right rider in Marco as a development rider, but I still think he is a good rider and will make the most of what the bike can achieve.

haha jock turd is right......
Bayliss and Biaggi couldn.t eat motogp ****

since day one Kawasaki have completely under estimated the class of rider required to develop (and race) a really good moto gp bike. The only rider of note has been Shinya and unfortunatley for Kawasaki he left them, for a very poor team and lost himself a year, had he stayed they may have had a better bike now. Hopkins is not the calibre of rider required nor is West. Kawasaki should have chucked a bucket load of dosh at Caparossi, Bayliss or Biaggi and got the real deal. Presonally I would go for Bayliss, even now he is still good enough to waste the majority of that grid!

for LAYTON KESKE and CALVIN

Also the tv RTL reported " with DIDIER DE RADIGUES - the speaker - told the world about the thursday night ...of HOPKINS and being so drunk to not appeare on friday for the practices !!!!
BARTHOLEMY tryed to cover this fact....telling a lot of other stories ! What can he tell the factory ...the thruth ? Not at all.

DFH - Not much more than gossip but eurosport also mentioned it during commentry..I agree its gossip but no smoke without fire mate, besides i wouldnt be suprised if hopper had that attitude after all it seems a wreck of a bike.
Correct choice is to sack entire team (westy but not hopper)and start over again with hopper having a more experienced rider to help them develop the bike dunno who...whats kenny jr or jezza mac up to at the mo??

Calvin

Italian is not a language I speak, but I can read. None of the English language press reported such a story, not even MCN. An Australian TV crew had a live interview with Westy on Saturday in which he made it obvious his displeasure with team green, but no mention of hospitals & Hopkins. The Google translation of the two quotes Patrice provided did not list anything other than unsubstantiated rumours of a marital tiff. No naming of the hospital that Hopkins was - quote " Hopkins being drunk and taking to hospital in coma " No naming of, or comments from, the doctor that treated him upon arrival. No other checkable facts. No cross references. Nothing other than unsubstantiated gossip.

@DFH, maybe you should learn to read.

Its what Bayliss said "Dont take on any body elses problems" Who ever rides for Kawasaki next year must be desperate for a ride and cant get one in the 50cc category.

I'm just wondering how big their book of excuse's are, surely they must be running out by now after having such a poor season so far..

(31 agosto 2008) Gazzetta dello Sport

La moglie torna Hopkins gira: 17o


MISANO - (g.z.) Dopo i problemi familiari di venerdì, è tornato in pista John Hopkins, 17° e davanti solo al compagno Anthony West. A risolvere il caso, almeno per il momento, è stato il team manager Michael Bartholemy, che ha convinto la moglie Ashleigh a tornare in circuito dopo la furibonda lite di giovedì notte.
Zamagni Giovanni