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Quello che segue ? un estratto da un articolo scritto dal mitico 34 per superbikeplanet.com.
Mi sono preso la libert? di evidenziare il suo pensiero sull'incidente tra Simoncelli e Pedrosa.
A scanso di equivoci, la discussione ha la sola finalit? di arricchire quanto gi? scritto con l'opinione di uno davvero speciale, e che, anche nell'articolo, per il punto di vista che espone, si conferma un grande, indipendentemente dall'essere o meno d'accordo con lui.
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It's funny, because to me, the commentary on the race was all, "Is he going to make a clean pass? He's got him set up now, can he make a clean pass?" I've heard all kinds of different things mentioned this last weekend. Is motorcycle racing a contact sport? Well, I think sometimes the bikes touch. I think sometimes the riders touch. But I wouldn't call it a contact sport. I think a contact sport is football, or Aussie rules football, or rugby. That's what I call contact. If, on occasions, things get tight in corners and bikes touch or people touch, then yeah. But I don't think you use your bike as ... I don't want to say as a weapon, but as a defense mechanism. I don't think you should put yourself in a position with your motorcycle that maybe you know what's coming, and you've seen it happen before, but, "I'm going to do this and hope that this guy that I'm racing with thinks better of it. Maybe sees me here and decides not to do it." That's kind of what I think Dani did. Dani had seen how quick Simoncelli had caught him in the two or three laps leading up to that pass. He'd seen his lap board go from +2 to +0. He saw him come by him on the brakes as he went into the corner before the incident. And then, Dani being smaller, both Hondas being probably somewhat equal, the smaller guy's going to accelerate down that straightaway faster. But knowing how strong Simoncelli was at that point in the race, I don't think I would've put myself in that position, to hope that "I'm going to go up the inside. I know I'm probably going to get outbraked. He might get about halfway around me, and when he gets halfway around me, if he decides to go ahead and take the corner, I'm going to be in trouble." Because there is no recovery from that.
At that point, Dani's options are, "I've screwed up. Do I really want to take Marco out? If I do, I've got to get back on the gas, and I've just got to sacrifice us both." Instead, Dani did what was right, and didn't do that ... stayed off the gas, ended up falling and has now got a broken collarbone. But my thought process ... and I read somewhere a quote that Valentino said that Marco's maybe taken this a little bit too far, and that was too physical a move. Well, he said he thought Marco should've followed Dani. I say Marco just passed Dani, and I think Dani should follow Marco. I don't like to see motorcycles coming together and guys falling down, because nine times out of ten it's a no-win situation for both guys. Fortunately for Marco, there was enough run-off on the outside of the track in that corner, and he was able to run to the outside of the pavement, over through the gravel, and get back on the track. Obviously, the officiating crew there with the FIM decided that maybe that deserved a penalty. The move, the contact, whatever it might've been, and that's what Marco got. I'm not sure that that was the right call, but that's the call that I guess we all have to live with. I texted Marco a couple of times. He said he didn't think he deserved it, much like I told him I didn't think he deserved it. But he said, "Lorenzo is World Champ right now. He's been making a lot of stink about my riding. I guess they listen to his voice a little bit more than they listen to mine," is the way Marco put it.
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Mi sono preso la libert? di evidenziare il suo pensiero sull'incidente tra Simoncelli e Pedrosa.
A scanso di equivoci, la discussione ha la sola finalit? di arricchire quanto gi? scritto con l'opinione di uno davvero speciale, e che, anche nell'articolo, per il punto di vista che espone, si conferma un grande, indipendentemente dall'essere o meno d'accordo con lui.
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It's funny, because to me, the commentary on the race was all, "Is he going to make a clean pass? He's got him set up now, can he make a clean pass?" I've heard all kinds of different things mentioned this last weekend. Is motorcycle racing a contact sport? Well, I think sometimes the bikes touch. I think sometimes the riders touch. But I wouldn't call it a contact sport. I think a contact sport is football, or Aussie rules football, or rugby. That's what I call contact. If, on occasions, things get tight in corners and bikes touch or people touch, then yeah. But I don't think you use your bike as ... I don't want to say as a weapon, but as a defense mechanism. I don't think you should put yourself in a position with your motorcycle that maybe you know what's coming, and you've seen it happen before, but, "I'm going to do this and hope that this guy that I'm racing with thinks better of it. Maybe sees me here and decides not to do it." That's kind of what I think Dani did. Dani had seen how quick Simoncelli had caught him in the two or three laps leading up to that pass. He'd seen his lap board go from +2 to +0. He saw him come by him on the brakes as he went into the corner before the incident. And then, Dani being smaller, both Hondas being probably somewhat equal, the smaller guy's going to accelerate down that straightaway faster. But knowing how strong Simoncelli was at that point in the race, I don't think I would've put myself in that position, to hope that "I'm going to go up the inside. I know I'm probably going to get outbraked. He might get about halfway around me, and when he gets halfway around me, if he decides to go ahead and take the corner, I'm going to be in trouble." Because there is no recovery from that.
At that point, Dani's options are, "I've screwed up. Do I really want to take Marco out? If I do, I've got to get back on the gas, and I've just got to sacrifice us both." Instead, Dani did what was right, and didn't do that ... stayed off the gas, ended up falling and has now got a broken collarbone. But my thought process ... and I read somewhere a quote that Valentino said that Marco's maybe taken this a little bit too far, and that was too physical a move. Well, he said he thought Marco should've followed Dani. I say Marco just passed Dani, and I think Dani should follow Marco. I don't like to see motorcycles coming together and guys falling down, because nine times out of ten it's a no-win situation for both guys. Fortunately for Marco, there was enough run-off on the outside of the track in that corner, and he was able to run to the outside of the pavement, over through the gravel, and get back on the track. Obviously, the officiating crew there with the FIM decided that maybe that deserved a penalty. The move, the contact, whatever it might've been, and that's what Marco got. I'm not sure that that was the right call, but that's the call that I guess we all have to live with. I texted Marco a couple of times. He said he didn't think he deserved it, much like I told him I didn't think he deserved it. But he said, "Lorenzo is World Champ right now. He's been making a lot of stink about my riding. I guess they listen to his voice a little bit more than they listen to mine," is the way Marco put it.
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