Smith column: Only at Mugello...

Best race of the weekend! well done Bradley.

LW...WERE WE BOTH WATCHING THE SAME RACE ALL I SAW WAS ANOTHER BRADLEY POOR SHOW AND IF HE DOESNT GET HIS ACT TOGETHER HE WONT BE IN POLARIS COLOURS IN 09.

The race was the best race of the weekend due to all the front runners dicing it up. Bradley was right in there too so you're wrong about him!

WHAT? Where do you get off "Yamaha R1"? It's precisely utter **** like this that makes me not want to bother with this website!

When was the last time YOU lead a GP?

All you seem to do is slag of people who are out there and doing it whilst you sit back and snipe from the cheapseats, do us a favour and go away.

his team seemed pretty happy with the result...

GO BRADDERS!

r1 is another Mary Cowhand type, only says something that will stir things up, just ignore it

another fantastic race, well done Bradley great to see you up at the sharp end in the thick of the action long may it continue !

i wouldnt call that another 'bradley poor show!' the boy had a broken foot and a swollen hand, yet he still came back from tenth to lead the grand prix on the second to last lap!
Well done bradders good luck for this weekend!

I AM NOT STIRING UP ANYTHING HE IS JUST ANOTHER TYPICAL BRIT RACER NO AGGRESSION,RACE CRAFT OR TALENT WHEN WAS OUR LAST BRITISH WINNER????1970'S WASNT IT????? MY CASE LAID TO REST US BRITS WILL NEVER CUT IT WITH THE EUROPEANS AND DUCATI THINKING OF BYRNE AS A BAYLISS REPLACEMENT IS A JOKE AND JUST SHOWS HOW DESPERATE THEY MUST BE TO DRAG THE BOTTOM OF THE BARRELL TO CONSIDER A BRIT.

ALL YOU LOT SPEAK SO HIGHLY JUST BECAUDE HE IS A BRIT AND IF HE WAS FROM ANOTHER COUNTRY YOU WOULDNT GIVE HIM THE TIME OF DAY THE ONLY 2 DECENT BRITISH RACERS TO COME OUT OF THIS COUNTRY ARE MANSELL AND FOGGY THE REST HAVENT GOT A HOPE AND TOSELAND DONT GET ME STARTED ON HIM!!!!

I AM NOT STIRING UP ANYTHING HE IS JUST ANOTHER TYPICAL BRIT RACER NO AGGRESSION,RACE CRAFT OR TALENT WHEN WAS OUR LAST BRITISH WINNER????1970'S WASNT IT????? MY CASE LAID TO REST US BRITS WILL NEVER CUT IT WITH THE EUROPEANS AND DUCATI THINKING OF BYRNE AS A BAYLISS REPLACEMENT IS A JOKE AND JUST SHOWS HOW DESPERATE THEY MUST BE TO DRAG THE BOTTOM OF THE BARRELL TO CONSIDER A BRIT.

ALL YOU LOT SPEAK SO HIGHLY JUST BECAUDE HE IS A BRIT AND IF HE WAS FROM ANOTHER COUNTRY YOU WOULDNT GIVE HIM THE TIME OF DAY THE ONLY 2 DECENT BRITISH RACERS TO COME OUT OF THIS COUNTRY ARE MANSELL AND FOGGY THE REST HAVENT GOT A HOPE AND TOSELAND DONT GET ME STARTED ON HIM!!!!

Why do you have to shout all the time "yamaha r1" or are you just too thick to turn the caps lock OFF,You are obviously an idiot judgeing by you rantings!all people do on this bit of the forum is offer support and praise to a young brit battleing the rest of the worlds ridders in his first season "on a competive bike" what is your problem dumb ****,why the hell would anybody have a go at a youngster who's at least having a go you are obviously a sad lonley unloved **** head,hence the sadly jelous rantings,sod of and attack some one else "FACE TO FACE" Idiot.

although he showed a slight lack of experience, i think he went for the best option against the more experienced field. he's a tough little bugger racing with those injuries and pulling a decent result out of the bag. no doubt i'll be ho**** this sunday afternoon after cheering Bradley on when i'm watching eurosport.

as for yamR1, i don't usually bite at trolls, but as well as foggy and mansell, there's moss, hailwood, sheene, surtees, read, duke, hill sr and jr, redmond any so many more including toseland, redding, smith and webb. don't be such a chump when making such uneducated posts, it just shows you for the fool you really are...

Whats wrong with JT?! He is putting in a sterling performance in moto gp, and i think to win two world SBK championships is a real achievment, especially leading the championship from start to finnish against the fiels that he did!!
Foggy was always the cry baby who decided that if he didnt win a race it was always the teams fault, or the bike broke, not that anybody was better than him! lol

I will never bring somebody down who is younger than me and who has lead 125cc world championship races! and bein on the podium! good luck to the boy i think!!

BURBS 85....toseland only won in 2004 as there was no other competition except laconi and in 07 bayliss 999 was slow and a sack of ***** otherwise we both know james would have not won either title and the bigger joke is that in 04 he had no real competition but still didnt win it till the last race of the season and in 07 it took him till the last race.

a worthy champion would have it tied up before then!!!!

and as for doing well in moto gp he managed to try and wipe out poor dovi with a stupid move and loris thinks he is a idiot and he is having his backside kicked by a man who is in the twilight of his career and is making a monkey out of toseland and the fact tech 3 has not signed him yet is a joke as i would have signed colin before james any day....

and also all i am trying to make out here is that british racers are useless compared to racers from other countries..

And you are clearly wrong, yamaha r1, Smith lacks a bit of experience/racecraft maybe but not talent, he's alreay been on the podium twice this season. Racing - and leading - whilst injured shows true grit.
And anyone who wins a title deserves it, if Bayliss had won the WSBK title on the last race rather than James would you be saying he was unworthy?

Go Bradley!

And I'm not just saying this because he's British either, Melandri, Hopper and now Lorenzo and other riders who have ridden whilst injured (well the list is endless really) have always gained my admiration.

Sorry "yamaha r1" I don't think so. I think they are not supporting Bradley Smith only for being british, I'm a SPANISH girl and I support him too because he is a great rider.


Go Bradley!!!!

im not british but i still support toseland, and bradley!
they are good racers! more talent in their little finger than you got over a whole liftime!!
If bayliss should of won the chapionship in 07' why didnt he finnish runner up?
why were there haga, corser and biaggi fighting with toseland and bayliss?!
a true champion leads all the way throught the championship and a deserved winner leads on the last race, all that toselnad did!
as for 'poor little dovi' he should man up, if he had come from moto x like the rest of the riders then he would know what real contact was!
the british racers are beating the likes of the americans, italians, ausies, french.

Yamaha R1 oh what a hole you dig yourself into...

"the fact tech 3 has not signed him yet is a joke" - really? so why did Tech 3 sign James Toseland up for 2 YEARS a few weeks back? You want to check your FACTS!

Colin Edwards is the one without a deal for next year so far.

As for your attack on Bradley Smith, this has to be the most unwarranted attack on a young developing rider I've ever seen! Where do you get off slagging off a guy like him?
I guarantee you he will be a world champion one day. You will not however.