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11/12/2017 5:10pm
11/12/2017 5:10pm
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11/14/2017 12:05pm
Unbelievable how this guy can ride a motorcycle, amazing to watch. Yamaha may have a difficult decision to make as Zarco needs to be on the factory bike, and one more thing.....Lorenzo is still a douche. Can’t wait for 2018!
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http://www.crash.net/motogp/news/887320/1/did-lorenzo-do-right-thing
I don't personally care for team tactics in motorcycle racing anyway. If you're good enough to win the championship then you should be good enough to pass Lorenzo and all the rest of them. Pretty simple.
I was plenty mad when dani took Nicky out back in 2006. Still am, notice the small "d".
On a track as tight as Valencia, passing is tough as it is and generally requires great risk and/or aggressive riding. Dovi clearly had the better pace early in the race and JLo was holding him up. A clean pass wasnt going to happen. So is Dovi supposed to hit his teammate? Risk both of them going down?
JLo is a douche. Always has been. His whole charade about how he was trying to tow Dovi to the front is laughable. What a fucktard. He wasnt towing anyone. Team orders arent ideal but they're a hell of a lot better than what JLo was doing. He was blocking for his fellow Spanish rider. Blocking his teammate no doubt.
JLo is as cutthroat as it gets. And he learned it from the best: ROSSI
All that said, I spoke to some friends from Italy, here were their comments....
- they spoke to Dovi privately, he wasnt upset, because by the time the team orders came his tire was gone
- Dovi had the pace early, burnt up his tire trying to get around JLo
- Ducati is acting calm in the press, but they are NOT happy with JLo's antics
I'm far from a Lorenzo fan but the critique he's getting for 'not obeying team orders' is pure bullshit.
As soon as Lorenzo crashed out Dovi lost a lot of speed and crashed out in the end as well.
That would be team tactics and I wouldn't like it.
Team tactics in any motorsport are a slippery slope. And while I agree, it's not aesthetically pleasing, what is the alternative? Iannone vs Dovi circa 2016????
The alternative is to beat Lorenzo out of the gate. If you are better than him you should be able to do that. Motorcycle racing should be about doing the best YOU can do every single race. Not about helping someone else. Motorcycle racing should be an individual sport, not a team sport. That's just my opinion. Much like I think instant replay is a bad thing in all team sports. It's my opinion and one of the main reason I don't watch them anymore.
In motorcycle racing it should be "may the best man win". If a racer wins because of team tactics then the best "man" doesn't win. I believe "blocking" is actually against the MotoGP rules although it's certainly hard to prove intentions. Remember that race a couple of years back with Rossi, Marc and Lorenzo with the Rossi/Marquez incident? Some would say that was fun to watch. Yeah, I suppose it is, until someone gets seriously hurt from it. When you become unpredictable on the racetrack things get very sketchy.
Bottom line is, if Dovi wasn't fast enough to take it to the front for the win, that's nobody's fault but Dovi.
Great to get some discussion going on MotoGP, at least we can all agree that 2017 was a very entertaining year
Huge props to Marquez for refusing to take 2nd place & putting it all on the line to win.
http://www.motorsportmagazine.com/opinion/motogp/he-was-already-world-c…
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