Silly sod. "Mummy, that Rossi pushed me!".
Thanks for the spoiler alert, you sod. Didn't get a chance to see it yesterday, but will watch it later. No more details please.
Ace escribió: Spoiler? My post doesn't give much away, and anyway, that race was ages ago. Surely everyone knows the result by now?
Well, having just watched the race, I can say that the post did give me something of a clue as to who came out on top in the last two-lap battle, but yeah, not exactly spoiled. I presume horgay's been whingeing about it since then?
Not just horgay... --- Yamaha management have told Valentino Rossi that he was too aggressive in his defence of third position against team-mate and title leader Jorge Lorenzo in the closing stages of Sunday's Japanese Grand Prix at Motegi. Lorenzo was faster than Rossi at the end of the race and the pair swapped places six times over the last two laps - and made contact several times - before Rossi held on to the final rostrum position. ?I think that Valentino's actions in the race were not correct towards Lorenzo," GPone.com reports Yamaha Motor Racing Managing Director of Lin Jarvis as saying.
Bwaahaahaa. Excellent stuff. I must admit I really enjoyed that part, and it was clearly very aggressive racing, but I can't see how anyone could point the finger at just one of them. Unless they're doing a 'team orders' thing and expecting Vale to yield to the championship leader...
I think they were expecting exactly that, too a point. Rossi seems to have been psychologically fucked for a while, and went as far as saying at one point that with his own title chances over, he'd try and help his team-mate win the championship. On the basis of yesterday's battle, I'd say he's decided maybe not. There was no need for Lorenzo to fight that hard yesterday - he could have let Rossi slip ahead with no real loss, since he still has a massive lead in the points, and not risked them taking each other out. But I'm glad they fought tooth and nail, it was the first glimmer of excitement in a MotoGP race for about six months and bodes well for next season.
ogden escribió: I've only read about it in dago http://tinyurl.com/39efqa4 Perhaps you can get the gist. Rossi says "He (Lorenzo) said he was looking forward to a last lap duel against me, well now he's had it".
If Pedrosa had been in the race and leading, maybe Rossi would have done just that, but as it was, there was no need to yield and give him and extra 3 points when Lorenzo will take it next week anyway. I watched the last 2 laps again last night and it really wasn't all down to Rossi. The bit where they bashed was half and half, with basically neither rider giving up the line they were on.
