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Yesterday you told the GP Riders that they made a bad call. You said that the track wasn't dangerous! I know that you as team manager and Grand Prix organizer where in a difficult position and that you where probably Giuseppe Muppet at the time. Now we are a day later and I see that both of your riders are out with injuries. Shaun Simpson dislocated his shoulder and Michael Leib came together with a back marker and injured his hand! Do you still think that this Mexican Grand Prix was such a great idea and that the riders where talking shit when they said that the track was unsafe?
Bye the way it is lame to put so much pressure on Leib to ride. You made him in one instance the most hated men in the paddock. Dear Dixon you are a backstabber and karma got to you faster than lightning!
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Bye the way it is lame to put so much pressure on Leib to ride. You made him in one instance the most hated men in the paddock. Dear Dixon you are a backstabber and karma got to you faster than lightning!
Source Picture: MxMag.be
Hope Leib & Simpson heal up soon.
Dixon is a whore! He's team manager, Grand Prix Organizer and he if I'm not mistaken he is also the British team manager!
And what does he realize? He organize a Grand Prix where you pay the highest entranced price on the schedule.
He is pro youthstream and everything those asses do are good for him even if thats contra for his riders.
Lets say that YS says that they are going to build looping into the tracks... Dixon would be the first to cheer for that stupid idea!
The funny thing is when Emig did the same thing in Vegas you didn't see any bullshit that these so called professionals of the GP circuit did to Lieb and Anstie.
Like Alex said, stay classy.
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If my employer tells me to do something I do it damnit, because that's my job. Considering Leib is a fill in rider on a quality team @ ZO338 is heading back to America next year do you really think anyone should question his choice to ride?? HELL NO!! I applaud Michael Leib for riding and doing his job.. Says a lot about his character in my eyes, job well done.. Heal up fast @ get back to kicking ass!!
You bang on about a return to the past with GPs well if you think that was unacceptably dusty on saturday you've got a very short memory of how GPs used to be.
Farleigh 89 -
Mexico qualifying 2012 -
And does this seems like "own choice"?
From @Michael_Leib To all those giving me crap about racing yesterday, I raced because when it was all said and done Dixon wanted me to. I respect him. #Truth
I don't give Leib crap because if his tweet is true he is made to! And Leib has allot to lose: A possible contract for 2013. His position for 2012. Check where I give Leib crap! I only say that Dixon won't be so happy anymore now with that SAFE TRACK!
Matti each of these pictures was taken in MX2 qualifying yesterday. I cant actually spot any dust tbh. Perhaps you should have bothered watching it before shitcanning a respected member of the moto comunity. You dont need to be so spitefull in your posts all the time matti seriously.
This on the other hand is real dust Matti and they knew how to crack on with it back then (89)
Never seen any official source why they protested.
Also: You can't really compare a 89' race to today's racing. The tracks are allot diferent compared to then and the speed has been gone up tremendously due to the technology.
Not saying Matti is right doing the fingerpointy game but the comparison you are making is a bit slanting imo.
For a few details, there is : unfortunately in french, maybe understandable with an internet translator (can be added, at this time, no ambulance...)
No ambulance is one thing and again, it was his choice. He didn't feel like he was placing himself in a life threatening position. Is there an ambulance at every practice track you go to every weekend? I bet you still ride though if there's not.
Were you at the riders strike in 93 in Boras over the hidden rocks, or when Stefan and co went on strike for 10 mins in South Africa? and nothing went down from either. Did I go on strike for months in my engineering union when we wanted better working conditions? yes! did we loose lots of wages? yes, did we get what we deserved ? yes but it took a lot of hard sacrifices, like no money to pay the morgage, little money for food, real hardship.
I am all for track safety, which is why I had all the dirt at Matterley screened and all stones removed!
Did I think the track was dusty? yes. I did not say anything about it not being dangerous.
The trouble was I was asked 30 seconds after the sighting lap before the guys were due to go on the line! in the 30 minute delay whilst they were watering not one person came to me and said "we are not riding" there was not protest list or anything, riders all had their kit on and went to the line.
I said this was a bad and un-professional way to try to resove this issue and that the riders should have maybe done a parade race as it was live on Mexican TV and stayed in their quali positions. Thus giving the organisers overnight to work the track, then the decision not to race could have been made around the table rather that putting Tortelli into financial suicide. Oh yes the papers and TV announced the Sunday race was cancelled ! I am no Youthstream muppet! but we all need each other, we have nothing if we do not have sponsors, sponsors have nothing if there is no TV or good exposure, then no meney eqauls no wages for riders and it goes back to an amatuer sport, it is a vicious circle but there are better way to achieve results.
It was unfair to put that pressure on Tortelli, I know what he must have put on the line, I am sure he wanted it right, but it is difficult and yes it should have been much better on the Saturday, but we are all in racing because we are passionate about the sport, which is why we all need to work together in a positive way. For safety, for our rights but just in a more co-ordinated way where we know the facts and we know the true concequences.
By the way to wishing riders to get hurt though Karma is truley sick, they both got hurt in racing incidents.
I was man enough to go to the MX1 riders and say the reason I let Michael ride and suggested the parade to them. And yes I allowed Shaun not to go out.
So please come to me the next time you are at a race and tell me what you have put into the sport over the years
No. Stuff just happens.. Dixon knows what he's doing and is in the position he's in because of that.
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It sounds like it was tough situation, and probably one could find fault with every camp's reaction when it was going down if one tried hard enough. Including the people here who decided to run with their imaginations about what was at issue without really having knowledge of what actually was going on on the ground.
Sometimes people just do the best they can under the circumstances when it comes to that.
They wanted to cancel the quali to give the workers more time to prep the track, and both sides blame eatchother for bad communication and sutch.
Let's hope both sides learned from this and things get ironed out so both parties can go on with the series.
Dangerous?
euro pansies!
If you want to see dangerous, if you want to know what it is like to walk on a razors edge barefoot, If you want to see injuries, then come and race the American Supercross series and/or the practice tracks you have to ride on to prepare for it......
and unfortunately I am not being sarcastic
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I cancelled my last winter's trip to dive in Belize and instead went to the Florida Keys, all because I want nothing to do with Central America and the troubles that have been escalating.
The ONLY issue here was the amount of dust and lack of watering for Saturdays qualifying races. Everything else is largely irrelevant.
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