You can smell if it is smoke from the engine or something else. You can also trust a fellow professional that he pulls the bike in when he feels the engine is rotten or sees the temperature rise. I do not agree that they should pull the bike in just to be sure.
This Weigl guy gets a lot of free advertisement with this stuff, while there are no credible reports that his very small company had a good plan or the money to "save" this team. A bit fishy.
Edit: Well, after looking at their website the only thing I see is a turnover of 130 million euro. No talk about profit, but a lot of talk about mergers and take-overs. So they are spending a lot of cash. The 200 million euro turnover I have read about is simply an expectation for 2008, nothing final and no indicator at all for their ability to support a F1 team. I still think it is a small company.
Yeah, this crash was really Nori's fault eh Ace27? Lets ignore Xaus hanging on his bike and taking them both out. When he is focused and nobody takes him out he is the best Yamaha rider out there. It is Corser who might need replacement. Solid finishes but sharp enough to fight for the win anymore.
I don't care about the start, or the mistake of running into another rider. The waving, fingers and italian movements Hamilton made when he passed racers he was directly competing with were annoying. A complete lack of selfreflection, respect for fellow competitors and a sign of pure arrogance. I guess that that is the only thing he learned from Alonso last year.
It is clear that whomever from whatever team can pit the latest mostly always has the advantage.... And because KR avoided a crash in the first corner an ex-engineer sees clear evidence of teamorders etc etc??? Yes, very clear... Let's get this investigated. The cheats, how dare they......
Even more radical would be: Ditch the lights, go back to daylight, but now cool the track and the riders with rain machines. No dust, the riders are cool, the race will be spectacular and the owners can be happy because they can spent a couple of million on wasting fresh drinking water that their "brothers" next door in Africa miss. Everyone happy.
Dani is the personification of..... Of what? There is nothing I can think of. Criville's left ear has more personality than him. And Criville was extremely boring in my book....
James Dean???? Bwhahahahahaha!....... Bwahahahahaha!
You have to be able to prove that the engine is really sick and that you did not simply park the car to be able to get a new engine/gearbox/whatever. Should not be to difficult in these cases (Massa, Kimmi, Bourdais)
All cars which are within a certain time from the race winner are considered to have finished / are counted in the results. Even when you are not running anymore. There is a rule about this. It has been like this for many, many years. Nothing fishy, nothing pro Ferrari.
From my memory HRC concentrated on Rossi when Hayden started, listened to nobody when Max was there, gave Hayden a hybrid testbike with a bad clutch for 2006, a Dani-special-minibike for 2007 and now an old bike for 2008.... All the time using him as a testmonkey without speaking the same language.
Meanwhile the midget moans, crashes and looses champhionships, wins only when he can exploit his weight advantage to the max, is horribly on the brakes, torpedos his teammate in the second to last race, badmouths everyone, threatens to leave Honda but stays because no other team wants him...... Dani is an extremely egoistic bad sportsman. I feel nothing but hate for the little punk.
The Aussi GP already is a nightrace for me. Great to get up at 4.00 in the morning, watch the GP and then take the motorcycle for a blast on the empty early sundaymorning roads. Come back and go back to bed. It's tradition! Bernie can put his night racing where the sun don't shine.
@ Brendan: Run a BMX bicycle on ice to learn to loose the front and back a zillion times and you will immediately have a better feel for when you loose the front of your motorbike. I damn well know it helped me a lot. A drifting front is no problem and a spinning rear is ok to handle. Dirt tracking trains your reflexes to deal with situations. Put your 4 year old on a bicycle on ice and he will be MotoGP material for sure. )))
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