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In two years motorcycle racing will more than likely be Vale-less (and Dorna valueless). It will be a sad day when 46 takes his chicken suits, Portaloos and fake policemen back to the Italian village from whence they came but all entertainers have to stop sometime.
We will never see his like again and that's a good thing as Rossi can't be copied but what he will leave, aside from the legacy of the world's greatest ever motorcycle racer, is a large hole.
The Doctor is MotoGP and when he isn't someone who has not suffered at the hands of a PR spin man, or born with a natural charisma bypass, will need to step up. And step up Marco Simoncelli will. He is from the same part of Italy as Rossi, they are friends and share a similar sense of humour. Of course, he is not Rossi and nor should we want him to be but at least he has a certain something.
Publicly at least, Jorge Lorenzo is without doubt the most dour World Champion in history. Even Steady Eddie Lawson could crack a smile every so often. Doohan, although painfully intense, had an Aussie sense of humour. God only knows what Dani Pedrosa's personality would make of being the best in the world for a year - should it ever be allowed out?
Alright, Simoncelli is a crasher. But when did not crashing suddenly become so important? When Kevin Schwantz burst, literally, onto the world stage he spent more time in the air than on his Suzuki but no-one was hugely critical of that. He was just trying hard. The phrase 'if you don't fall off now and again, you're not trying hard enough' could have been coined for the American.
Now, when people crash, it's like someone has shot Kate Middleton's puppy. Bikes do fall over. Gravity takes care of that. It is well documented, on the interweb at least, that Lorenzo likened Simoncelli to riding like he is on a PlayStation. Well, Jorge, at least he provides the paying public with something to watch in an otherwise awful show.
Racing needs Simoncelli. It needs Colin Edwards. It needs Cal Crutchlow. It needs Casey Stoner. Simoncelli is a funny guy and a very fast rider. Edwards and Crutchlow are say-what-they-mean and mean-what-they-say men who don't tip-toe around stuff. Stoner just delivers what is on his mind and is much misunderstood for it.
Racing doesn't need anodyne PR'd robots trained to do and say exactly what the team and sponsors want because we are, at the end of the day, in the entertainment business. Gone are the days when riders sorted out their differences in the paddock bar but there is so much PR spin, even in British Superbikes, that they rarely acknowledge other riders exist.
Bikesport News | Race Features
In two years motorcycle racing will more than likely be Vale-less (and Dorna valueless). It will be a sad day when 46 takes his chicken suits, Portaloos and fake policemen back to the Italian village from whence they came but all entertainers have to stop sometime.
We will never see his like again and that's a good thing as Rossi can't be copied but what he will leave, aside from the legacy of the world's greatest ever motorcycle racer, is a large hole.
The Doctor is MotoGP and when he isn't someone who has not suffered at the hands of a PR spin man, or born with a natural charisma bypass, will need to step up. And step up Marco Simoncelli will. He is from the same part of Italy as Rossi, they are friends and share a similar sense of humour. Of course, he is not Rossi and nor should we want him to be but at least he has a certain something.
Publicly at least, Jorge Lorenzo is without doubt the most dour World Champion in history. Even Steady Eddie Lawson could crack a smile every so often. Doohan, although painfully intense, had an Aussie sense of humour. God only knows what Dani Pedrosa's personality would make of being the best in the world for a year - should it ever be allowed out?
Alright, Simoncelli is a crasher. But when did not crashing suddenly become so important? When Kevin Schwantz burst, literally, onto the world stage he spent more time in the air than on his Suzuki but no-one was hugely critical of that. He was just trying hard. The phrase 'if you don't fall off now and again, you're not trying hard enough' could have been coined for the American.
Now, when people crash, it's like someone has shot Kate Middleton's puppy. Bikes do fall over. Gravity takes care of that. It is well documented, on the interweb at least, that Lorenzo likened Simoncelli to riding like he is on a PlayStation. Well, Jorge, at least he provides the paying public with something to watch in an otherwise awful show.
Racing needs Simoncelli. It needs Colin Edwards. It needs Cal Crutchlow. It needs Casey Stoner. Simoncelli is a funny guy and a very fast rider. Edwards and Crutchlow are say-what-they-mean and mean-what-they-say men who don't tip-toe around stuff. Stoner just delivers what is on his mind and is much misunderstood for it.
Racing doesn't need anodyne PR'd robots trained to do and say exactly what the team and sponsors want because we are, at the end of the day, in the entertainment business. Gone are the days when riders sorted out their differences in the paddock bar but there is so much PR spin, even in British Superbikes, that they rarely acknowledge other riders exist.
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