Todays MotoGP

Mr. Rossi, I sincerely apologize for starting to doubt your skills and desire to ride a motorcycle faster and better than anyone else. I just assumed from this year you were looking at the downside of your career. Please accept my apology. I was wrong.!

While certainly it has a lot to do with Rossi healing more from his leg injury, he sure seems hell bent on beating Lorenzo since they picked Lorenzo over him at team Yamaha. The past couple races - especially the banging in the previous race with Lorenzo's title on the line - have surely been about next year more than this year. And that brings up an interesting question...Rossi is the guy who took Yamaha back to the top. But Lorenzo is certainly the guy that seems to have the best grasp on the future right now, while Rossi don't have too many years left in him (and many had given up on him already). But geez, Rossi is ROSSI. And you have another serious contender waiting in the wings with Ben Spies. So if it's a given that you can't keep both Lorenzo and Rossi, who would you rather have? Lorenzo and Spies for as long as you can hold them, or Spies for as long as you can hold him and Rossi until he retires? Not to mention what Spies learns under Rossi if they are teammates since I couldn't see the team division that you had with Rossi/Lorenzo?
And do the GP riders affect bike sales all that much, or is the series strictly for pride amongst the manufacturers? Surely in the US, when Mladin and Spies dominated for so long every spode doing wheelies on the interstate were on gixxers, but does anyone really but an R1 because Rossi or Lorenzo won on an M1?

Hell of a ride by Val. Love it when he qualifies poorly, you really get to see him work.

Jorge doesn't have to worry about the championship now. Wonder if we'll see him going for a little pay back in the final race? Seem to remember Doohan and another Spaniard taking each other out down under at the end of the season a few years back.

Replay is on right now (11am PST Speed)

LMAO! how the hell does this guy fit this mop inside his helmet?

He did well on the 250's but only fair on the big bikes. I'm guessing he'll come back next season with a haricut.

Alex Criville?

I saw on Alex Goberts site that Doohan was doing a race of champions and when I clicked on the link imagine my disappointment that it's with cars.

I would have kept Rossi but I don't think it was their choice really. Rossi was wooed by Ducati at the same time Yamaha refused to pick him over Lorenzo. Unless I am mistaken Yamaha didn't tell Rossi they were not going to bring him back they just told him no when he asked them to get rid of Lorenzo. Thhis is the way I understood it. Am I wrong?

That's pretty much the story as I heard it. When I say that they picked Lorenzo over Rossi, it was Rossi who pretty much gave them the "him or me" ultimatum. Since Lorenzo has established himself as the main contender over the next few years (not to discredit Pedrosa, Stoner, or Spies), Rossi didn't feel like he should have to compete against his chief rival on the bike that Rossi developed. But given that Rossi initiated the ultimatum, and given that Lorenzo has a few more titles in him while Spies remains "potential," I still think if I could get another 2-3 more years out of Rossi I'm going with the Rossi/Spies pairing. Cause even though Lorenzo has another 10 years in him at least, there's no way Yamaha gets to keep him that long with the way riders switch teams nowadays.