MOTOGP » Smith column: The gambling man

That first win will come!!!

Good luck

Smith,get a personality.Colour your hair or smile more.You have talent,but also enjoy what you are living "The Dream Baby The Dream".Don''t be like most Poms''tight fisted pullers.

the above post pretty much sums up what this board has become... idiot...

Yet another lame excuses from Smith, everybody had the same problems with the track, weather and so on.

Smith just doesn't have it to be a great winner.

Good God the kid is 17, give him a break! what were you lot doing at his age?

He doesn't need or offer excuses just reasons, he clearly has the speed be patient the rest will come.

Rob w

Well said ! But dont you think Scot Redding (who is younger and on a "lesser" capable Bike)is handling things better ?

Bah, how can you critisize anyone in 125s. Fortunes are so up and down in the small class. Like the experts say, Rossi's heartbeat is always low in races, suggesting that he is like a kid having fun when he is racing. If that is anything to go by, the best thing to do is be a kid, maintain that sense of fun and results will come. Another prime example is Bayliss. He is having his best seasons now at the end of his career and he said that it is pretty much due to him feeling more relaxed.

Bradley as you said you had probs stopping and turning you did wot was right and just get as many point as you did just look at how much front you got to use at Brno so that did not help but when you get probs like you had wot can you do you had at least two of the biggent probs you can have in motorbike racing least you stayed cool and got the bike over the line and had no nasty crash like Catalunya and the team would have understood when they now wot was your probs were San Marino on xbox is 1 of my fravorite track hope it 1 of your as well so fingers crossed it stay dry for once and see you flying on the back straing if you can call it a back straight on the POLARIS WORLD BUG

Cheers Tom

What Redding did at the British gp was fantastic, I was hoping it might be a springboard to regular high finishes but again the kid clearly has the raw speed and talent.

I think both Smith and Redding have what it takes but then that's only part of the equesion look what happened to Manuel Poggiali!! they need to have the right mind set, the right guidance and coaching, fair opportunities and a pot of good luck!

It looks to me as if Smith's best hope of winning at the moment is to try to break from the front, (if possible), as his lines seem to leave him a little more vulnerable to block passes than others with more experience, so he gets beaten up in the pack. His practice times are fast on a clear track. It appears as if he tries do just that, but gets reeled back in. This is my impression, but I don't claim it as anything like gospel, as it may be his bike doesn't change direction easily at the start, or all sorts of things. If it is what I suggest, then it will improve with experience. Be nice to hear more from him on the subject, even if just to prove me wrong!