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Sorry Mark you should know better. Maybe it's my English, or maybe, as far
as I know, it's the fact you've never been racing but, yes, he should have
let Rossi by staying partly leaned over, hard on the brakes for a fraction
of a second more, turn in behind Rossi and power past him as Rossi go wide
in the middle of the turn. It's a very common race maneuver favored be
leader when the have someone hot headed behind them. If noting else Rossi's
own mistake should be more than enough for Sete to know that Rossi was very
pissed off.

good idea, with the competitons he has that could be just as well.

He's foot is off the peg every lap at that point. Why it more or less
touched the ground is probably because he realize he's coming in to fast and
getting the foot on the peg is something he don't want to offer a cent of
attention to.

Very close to a conspiracy theory again Mark? First of all: Sete don't
protest. Why? No commentators or racers are willing to say it should be
penalized. What we got left is quite a lot patriotic Spaniards and a few on
this news group with the attitude to always take the underdog's side and the
spirit of good sportsmanship or what ever.



/MBE

 

Does it have to? I mean, for now all they've come up with is multi cylinder
600cc to replace 250cc why can't they follow moto cross, with single or two
cylinder 400-450 and single sylinder 200 - 250cc? Higher wheight limits and
material restrictions should enable cheaper clases?

/MBE

 

Yes please. 250 singles and 450 twins 4 strokes. Performance would be
close enough to the current 125 and 250 to be able to mix them for a
couple of years. If it was 225cc, 450cc and 900cc then all three classes
could use the same pistons, conrods, cam profiles, valves, combustion
chamber shape etc etc. At least to start. And this would make it
relatively easy for Yamaha, Kawasaki, Ducati, KTM, Suzuki to get
involved. Aprilia have their 450 Twin so they wouldn't be starting
completely from scratch and it might lead them to make a 900 V4. That
then lets Piaggio badge engineer it into a Derbi, Gilera (Guzzi?). Which
just leaves Honda. And Honda can afford to start from scratch.

Part of this is nostalgia, I'd really like to see 250 single and 450
twin road sports bikes as an entry level for new riders. I think the
current situation where a 600SS bike is seen as the natural starter bike
for people who've just passed their test is stupidly dangerous. And also
because I lust after an Aprilia RS250 with their jewel of a 450 V-Twin
engine along with possibly even greater lust for the Super Motard
version.

 

Totaly agree. Both for street and racing 600 are now the entry level now for
all but juniors that race 125. Me, I would love to throw away my old Aprilia
250RS and get an easy maintainable 450 street bike for my amature racing.

/MBE

 

Absolutly. Rossi's move in no way made him deserve the victory. If someone
else was there to snatch it, all the better.

/MBE

 

But then again, it doesn't take much to get balistic out there
BTDT, eaten the gravel. Not fun but to, part of the racing.

/MBE