MotoGP Motegi: Valentino Rossi “I found myself in the wrong place at the wrong time”
Valentino Rossi's Japanese Grand Prix lasted just two corners. The Ducati rider actually fell, also touching Spies who went into the gravel. Given the penalties for jumping the start of Dovizioso and Simoncelli and the pace shown in the warm up, this could have been a great race for the Pesaro rider who is obviously disappointed. He has the microphone.
“Going out after two corners is a real disappointment, especially after a weekend of continuous progression and knowing that we have worked well on the bike. this morning in the warm-up I was fourth, I had the possibility of maintaining a high 1'46 pace in the race and I think that our tire choice, hard at the rear and soft at the front, was also valid. Considering the problems that Stoner, Simoncelli and Dovizioso had, we could easily have fought for the podium, which would have been very important for us. We were a bit unlucky, unfortunately at the first corner Lorenzo went slightly on the grass and at the next corner he moved quickly to set the line well. I was a little behind, he didn't see me and touched me, pushing me against Spies who, in turn, touched my brake lever. A normal race contact, I found myself in the wrong place at the wrong time. However, here we did a good job on the bike and were more competitive than usual. It's a challenging time for us but we hope to be on the right track.”
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I don't think Rossi found himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. In this motorcycling season there are two disappointing things, the first is Ducati which has built a bike that is not competitive on any front, while the second is Valentino Rossi who in addition to complaining, also makes excuses by saying phrases like that.
In my opinion Rossi should make a mea culpa and apologize to those who still hope for his victory in this championship (I doubt it will happen). I can't stand to see a driver who doesn't concentrate in the race and who uses useless excuses to place the blame on other factors.
Sorry sorry sorry! Here's what Rossi has been doing since the beginning of the year! he only knows how to make excuses for everything!
this time Rossi I think he was honest
I don't know where he could go
it couldn't vanish into thin air
Coming from me, I'm very critical of Valentino...
Bibo,
I know where Rossi could go... as they say in my area, "to pick pears in the fields" or "to mundà al rìss like a picker in the rice fields"
YOU ALMOST ALWAYS FOUND YOURSELF IN THE RIGHT PLACE AT THE RIGHT TIME, IF FOR ONCE IT WENT DIFFERENTLY IT'S NO ONE'S FAULT.
“he touched my brake lever”
guys, but after the bad events of Barcelona 2006 (where at the first corner there was that multitude of drivers who crashed, due to the fact that Gibernau, touching Capirossi's brake lever, had thrown him to the ground, causing the accidents following the first corner) shouldn't this have been remedied?? nice solution found... after 5 years the same thing still happens... mba..
bad luck haunts valentino and his red car, today we could have achieved a nice podium in spite of stoner who wasn't going as fast as in practice... in fact I'm super happy that cammomillo won, I had my pockets full of that number 27... it's worth it I can't wait to see those braking at the limit, and everything else that races in GP2
One thing is certain without a competitive Valentino, MotoGP has become boring.
We want the duels with Lorenzo and Stoner back, then let the best man win, but we want to see the fight.
Without Valentino on a competitive bike it is no longer the same sport.
"Today I could have gone to the podium", he knows how to tell jokes, so at the start he did the same thing as Dovi.sic, and Crutchlow that is an early start, at the first corner he touched Hayden, at the second he touched Lorenzo who was in front, bouncing he threw spies out. these are the facts. which podium??? if he hadn't crashed he would have served the penalty like the others.
ps not even in the most perverse dreams of the sic there are so many irons in the fire.
regardless of what happened at the start... but what bike are they using at the moment? Is it just thanks to the track? or has the official Ducati found something in terms of lap times?
in the Warmup this morning Vale was quite strong compared to the standards of the last races...
that they have taken the right path? or have they simply stopped doing strange experiments on this year's bike and have now gone back to focusing on the results?
even looking at the speeds, Stoner aside, they were practically all there..
Aren't we in for a little surprise in Malaysia? (Phillip Island isn't to be counted, Stoner will be scary in my opinion) and in any case I'm not saying a victory because it seems almost impossible to me, but... aren't we in for a nice podium?
As a Vale fan I clearly hope so..
Well, Marco, if you allow me, in a completely theoretical way, with the times he set in the warmup, the podium didn't seem so out of this world, don't you think? he probably wouldn't have made it but I don't think he would have come very close to making it
Vale declared that he had found a greater approach to riding although not 100%... that he had a motorbike with a semi-supporting engine on a frame made up of two aluminum braces instead of the classic trellis which was later replaced by carbon... this would currently be the real chassis for the 800 cc
Marco but did you follow him at the weekend?
MAAXXX,
with the times set in the up, ok in your opinion he was so ahead of pedrosa and the rest?? I have very strong doubts, then with what configuration did you make them??? (tyres, full power etc.)
andrea z,
I followed all the phases in the wk and also watched in streaming, I didn't just see the up.
Let's not forget that this is a Ducati track, and with the new asphalt many flaws are resolved (greater traction etc. etc.) Has anyone seen the Rossi's early start? would he have been penalized like the others?
I have to agree with Valentino completely.
He was really in the wrong place (on the DUCATI DESMOSEDICI GP 11.12.13.//11..1254) and in the wrong place (MOTO GP race).
If he had been with me on the Cisa, he certainly would not have crashed and would have won easily.
On the other hand, my Monster S4Rs just can't keep up with him...
@MAAXXX (moderate Ferrari fan)
They use the exact same bike as Aragon (therefore the one with the aluminum "frame", even if we can't speak of a real frame), but as you wrote, it is thought they are no longer looking for extreme roads (perhaps because the frame for the gp12 is it really a deltabox?!?) So they work "only" in the weight distribution and in the optimal setting...
I also advise you (as I advise many "experts") to look at some photos and videos from last year and those from this year of Vale...
The difference is VERY noticeable!
No need to look at the photos, just look him in the eyes!
His gaze doesn't have its usual flicker, the usual flashes, the smile in his eyes... all the elements that have always accompanied him, even in the moments when he broke his leg and shoulder.
Today he is just a professional who is trying to best honor a contract, with a very rare seriousness, but he is not Rossi, much less Valentino.
Today his eyes are "off", take a good look at him if you happen to.
Just a great sense of duty and that's it.
He doesn't have fun at all (and he has always run for fun, never for "work"), he doesn't like it, if he could he would like to be kidnapped by aliens.
I already know that this will attract acid sarcasm in the replies of the usual "comedians" who have fun like this, however - unfortunately for the real show in MotoGP - it is a very sad reality.
When Melandri did these things in Ducati everyone massacred him, Rossi first and foremost.
Today Marco will be having a good laugh!
Yes but Melandri arrived last and took 1,8 seconds per lap from Stoner when it suited him!!!!! Rossi will win again because at the moment in the world championship there are only three riders who know how to develop a motorbike, one is Valentino, the other is Dovizioso and the third is Capirex, just look at Yamaha since the beginning of the year which has progressively lost its competitiveness despite the return to the 2010 chassis, I remind you that it was the bike to beat for several years, ditto the Honda until the arrival of Dovizioso, now with Stoner and Pedrosa the Hondas win everything, and the Ducati until Capirex did the development it grew progressively until it came close to the 2006 world championship and won the 2007 world championship, then slowly lost its way until it got to where it is now, not even Stoner's speed was enough to close the gap, so I don't think you need to be geniuses to understand the problem. I really hope that Rossi returns to winning soon because I can no longer tolerate the hypocrisy of the anti-Rossi people who hid behind the Ducati saying I support an Italian motorbike!!!!! just because he won with Stoner, and now that Rossi is in Ducati or they support Stoner or even Lorenzo, their motto is whoever wins wins as long as Rossi doesn't win.
Hello everybody.
to me he seemed like someone who was at his first grand prix, but where did he want to go???
in my opinion it was more competitive because motegi is a track without fast corners so the engine and good braking count
qualities that belong to Ducati
@Old sage
You're right, there's no need for photos, but you know what people there are who comment... So it's better to recommend a certain vision XD...
I think exactly like you... The problem is that I see a lot of suffering for next year too...
@bcs:
I've been writing this for a while, next year will be worse...
for the simple fact that I think that the gap between the Ducati bike and the Jap bikes will, hopefully, be the same as today or a tad (but a tad) better, but the disappointment will be much more bitter because in the meantime expectations have grown.