I feel really sorry for James, in MotoGP it is the team around you and what you can do with what they give you! Or what you can blag off your team mate?
Take Rossi and Burgess, setup is where it is at! Great team, granted, but both Burgess' crew and Vale would be doing well even if they weren't together. Quality counts.
People say, yeah but they're on the same Yams as Rossi and Lorenzo but I think if you peel that back to the teams and what they ACTUALLY get from the factory support is a world apart!!!Hmmmm. Had a look at the full fat Hondas and their satelite teams? Getting the shiny new parts doesn't always help. Isn't the Pedrobot running last years frame?
Look at the Ducati squad, fair play to the Moaner he can get that bike to where it needs to be but the others? Shite! Riders or bikes? Casey has a level of talent way beyond that of most of the field, it's hardly the factories fault that their #1 rider is world class.
Kawasaki are kicking arse right now which goes to show that it's swings and roundabouts, we were at BSB last weekend and the Kwak did really well, same as the team running now without full Kwak support. Right poke in the eye that IMO for Kawasaki. Best of luck to the teams in both classes, it's great to see them doing well.
JT knows how to ride a bike as above pointed out, twice WSBK champion and that is no mean feat! Perhaps not, but his rivals aren't exactly slow, even (especially) the satelite boys...
Look at Button in F1 right now, done shite all for years because of support and now he gets support from the top Ferrari engineer and it's all good...happy days! What does that tell you?
That F1 is all about the car?
MotoGP, probably more than any other mainstream motorsport, is about individual skill, courage and determination. Stoners' Duke is almost unrideable at times, but Casey brings it home when his team mates are up to ten places down the grid. The goat took a proven looser and spanked all comers. The media banged on about engine improvements, but his team mate and the satelite bikes did no better than they had the season before. JT is a world champion, but his lack of success in MotoGP can't be blamed on anything or anyone other than himself. He's got a better bike than the satelite teams roughing him up almost every race. He aquired the (supposedly) better crew chief from Colin Edwards, who's now raping him on an identical machine. I don't feel for him at all, either he steps up to the mark and justifies his place or he slides into the background. He's got every advantage possible, short of taking Rossi's ride in a fortnight!
Posted: 08/05/2009 at 02:05
