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Not condoning Peick's actions at all... There's a better way to handle it, obviously.
I hope all the other riders punt Vince off the track whenever they get the chance. That guy rides like an idiot.
It's like when I was a kid.
I knew I could do something stupid, get yelled at, be on my best behavior for a short period of time and then do something stupid again.
Rinse, Repeat with no real punishment.
Peick, on the hand, is an embarrassment to JGR, the sport, and himself. He needs to understand that he cannot lose control like that. Unfortunately, any public apology he makes will likely be feigned, so there would be no meaning in that.
Like 500 guy said you can ride dirty and still ride within the rules and imo this is exactly what Friese does.
I actually like Friese, he's tenacious as hell, doesn't give a f$$k who you are, and somehow has managed to have a lengthy career on the big stage, its pretty impressive really.
Oh and did you expect anything different from Genova? The Guy will defend his team/riders no matter what
Pit Row
Peick is a upper tier rider, people seem to forget what he was doing last year with Barcia out. He's a upper tier rider on a top tier team - Friese not so much. There's probably a ton of jealousy, but VF is not in the same class as WP. If Friese wants to rider around knocking people down, he should stick to riders of the same speed and talent level, guys who struggle to make a few main events here and there.
So who are we going to tell how to do their job next week?
He has sence moved on maybe there is some jealousy aspect too it
From Transworld in 2011 re Las Vegas "K-Dub went in hard on the inside of Friese and straight up took his front wheel out, giving Friese a taste of what it feels like to be on the receiving end for a change."
The astounding part isn't what Peick did on Saturday night, it's that it took so long to happen.
Mike Genova, owner, SmarTop MotoConcepts: It’s pretty cut and dry. Vince [Friese] was racing and racing hard, and didn’t intend to knock [Weston] Peick down. Both guys are hard chargers and have the same mindset, and it got tight and they crashed. But that kind of behavior is not acceptable, and not only does it blacken the eye of the sport, it jeopardizes Vince’s health. What would we be doing right now if he’d have hurt him? We have a lot of money invested in him and we care about him. For obvious reasons, that’s not acceptable. Hopefully they’ll pass out due justice, and in our opinion it should be a multi-race suspension. I’ve never seen anything like it.
I feel for the JGR guys, and I was talking to Jeremy Albrecht [JGR team manager] and I said I was sorry, but I was going to have to press the issue pretty hard. He was embarrassed and he said the whole thing was stupid. He was embarrassed and he should be, and Weston should be too. We’ve not seen anyone from their organization and apologize at all, and I would do that if the shoe was on the other foot. I’m assuming it’s going to be something Weston regrets if he doesn’t already. I’m extremely proud of Vince for being so classy and demonstrating so much self-control. Vince doesn’t take crap from anybody.
Vince does have a bit of a reputation for riding rough. Was he too rough tonight, or was it just racing?
Well everyone has a different opinion on that, and everyone says Vince has a reputation for that, but 70 percent of the guys in these pits have a reputation for that. That’s what it takes to compete at this level. Does Vince have a reputation any more than anyone else? I don’t know. But we’re not getting any heat from the AMA, and they don’t think we did anything wrong. He didn’t intentionally do that, he was just trying to get underneath Weston, and Weston could have backed off a little too. If we’d have done anything wrong we’d be getting heat, but they’ve totally cleared us. Unfortunately, I’ve been told that the media guys all point the finger at Vince, and that he provoked it, but come on, we’ve all see the likes of Ricky Carmichael and Kevin Windham and guys like that do things, and it’s just called racing. If you dent the guy’s fender in NASCAR it doesn’t give him the right to T-bone you. Do we think Vince dented his fender? Yeah probably, but these things happen. There’s a lot going on in these races, and I find it comical that anyone would think it was an extreme, blatant, dirty move by Vince. And Weston got nasty with Vince a few turns earlier; he whipped it in front of him over a triple. But of course nobody saw that.
I can tell you if it had been one of my guys who did that, I’d suspend him right away. If one of my guys demonstrated that kind of lack of self-control, discipline, class, and respect, he’d have a big problem and it would be from me. So we’ll see what those guys do. I know Jeremy Albrecht was really embarrassed.
"...everyone says Vince has a reputation for that, but 70 percent of the guys in these pits have a reputation for that. That’s what it takes to compete at this level. Does Vince have a reputation any more than anyone else? I don’t know."
It's like the parents of a toddler who think their child can do no wrong, except the 55 isn't a child.
It is Man's sport, ( That whole chick riding SX is all groovy for marketing, but lets be real)..guys get wound
up, that's what we do..
You can't end up in situations like this all the time and not look at yourself and the people you surround yourself with, surely.
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