sooooo good

rossi is such an impressive driver, he went through 125cc, 250cc, etc like nothing. He's the Michael Schumacher of Moto GP, without being the douche that MS is :-)

I haven't been following gp lately, so perhaps someone can correct me...but this seemed so reminiscient of the whole padrosa/hayden affair last year.

They both are riding yamahas, both have fiat sponsors... so aren't they on the same team? And if they are, clearly there is a pecking order (and i'm sure rossi is on top)... so to me it was stupid what Lorenzo was doing. He could have easily caused a crash by being so aggressive and forcing rossi to be agressive.

Osama, Hayden hasn't raced with Pedrosa for a while now, and, unlike F1, pecking orders don't exist per sé, they certainly don't cause changes in the racing.

Well done on noticing they race for the same team though

And, no, he wouldn't cause a crash and neither rider was aggressive, that was very good quality racing at the highest level.

Anyway, welcome to real racing, trust me than other than noticing they're team mates, nothing else you said applies.

That's why MotoGP is more exciting than F1 - there are no team orders!

As a motorcycle racer myself, there was nothing (too) aggressive about the lines either of them were taking, they just have different riding styles and that shows up in the on-board shots. Some of those lines were defensive to stop the other over-taking on certain corners, but sometimes a defensive line just opens another line instead - as clearly shown by Rossi on the last over-take! Sometimes there's just not enough room to go for a pass that you want to make, and you have to back off. These guys are thinking laps ahead, let alone corners ahead, when timing their runs to over-take.

Both of these guys are World Championship racers. Rossi is the wise master with God-like abilities but Lorenzo is the young protagonist who will fill Rossi's boots at some point.

But as they say: the first person to beat is your team-mate.

I looked it up, the hayden/padrossa crash was in 2006. Wow time really flies.

I guess in racing it's each man for himself, I was mistaken as at least commentators back then were giving padrosa crap for crashing into his ('sure season-winner') teammate.

Nonetheless, it was an impressive last few laps. Perhaps I dont watch enough racing and mistook them to be more agressive than they were, but I was on the edge of my seat praying rossi didn't crash.

>> ^osama1234: He could have easily caused a crash by being so aggressive and forcing rossi to be agressive.


Racing is dangerous. Being aggressive is part of that. This ain't Driving Ms. Daisy.

Funny how someone can render some of the finest MotoGP riding in recent memory in to a WH&S issue.

Two laps left:

F1: don't blink
Moto GP: go get a beer, talk to the neighbors, come back for last lap and 1/2.



As for Schumacher, he was a weird guy. The kind of guy that will win any way he can period. It did suck sometimes, the crap he tried to pull, but then other times he blew you away with his talent so much that you could almost forgive him. It would have been nice to have an evil F1 guy that you could really root against, but when that evil won almost all the freakin time, it kinda lost that fun.

man, sports newscasting is so universal that i didn't even realize he wasn't speaking English until about halfway through the video. lol.

>> ^osama1234:
I looked it up, the hayden/padrossa crash was in 2006. Wow time really flies.
I guess in racing it's each man for himself, I was mistaken as at least commentators back then were giving padrosa crap for crashing into his ('sure season-winner') teammate.


Rossi, Lorenzo and Stoner are equal on points at this stage of the championship. it doesn't make sense for there to be a pecking order at Yamaha. the commentators rightly derided Pedrosa for taking out Hayden in Portugal 2006 as Nicky was the only one of the two who had a chance of taking out the championship at that stage (it was the penultimate race). Plus, Pedrosa took him out in a clumsy accident early on in the race...there was no need for it.

Normally don't get into racing. Way more intense than I expected. Thanks for sharing.

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