Psalm 46: Jesus of Tavullia Reborn

McGrath was able to do that in S/X. Took him years (and training) to make it to the top of M/X. M/X was ruled by training fanatics like Ward and Stanton.

 

Rossi was very close to winning.........a 2 lap race

 

Mini-sprint?

 

His move into T1 was pretty nice. Reminds me of race starts at BIR. Stay in it and go around the outside of 10 guys.

 

Yes. They should have moved him to tech 3 or retired him and retained Lorenzo. Instead, marketing wanted the cash flow and now they have retained a rider that is going on almost 3 season without a win. MV and FB are the only hopes Yamaha has. One hasn't figured out race starts and the other is still a rookie who can't figure out Marquez. 20/20 vision is excellent.

 

They should have retained Lorenzo, right. Can you remind me where the rider they should have retained finished last weekend?

Just trying to follow your logic here....

 

Last weekend doesn't matter nearly as much as where he finished after Ducati told him to pound sand. You know as well as anyone, he figured the Duc out, and was winning and finishing well, until he got busted up. Ducati fucked up by letting him walk.

 

How so?

Nearly every Ducati that finished a race this season finished in front of George.

 

Never mind. I need to either concentrate on posting here, or what's going on in real life.

 

Like getting me my damn invite to the drunkening!

 

If he doesn't go to Honda, it's possible he doesn't get busted on an unfamiliar bike in winter testing. So he probably ends up doing better in 2019. Much better.

 

As Casey went away from being a test rider, Ducati got away from contending.

 

If it's true that they weren't using his input, what difference did his leaving make?

 

All the difference in the world if you insist on seeing it in one very particular way.

 

Your logic says Lorenzo would be finishing last on the Yamaha? That's cute. Can you remind me who was the last rider to bring the championship to Yamaha?

 

That's a whole lot of speculation based on an "if". You know that doesn't fly in this world....

 

My logic isn't saying anything, I'm just pointing out facts versus your speculation.

Fact - JLo finished dead last this past weekend.

You said Yamaha should've dumped Rossi after 2016 "If Yamaha cared more about on track results" when the fact is Rossi was the top Yamaha that year.

You can speculate on where on where JLo would/could/should be if he stayed on Yamaha, but it doesn't matter.

Another fun fact; JLo's teammate scored more points in Philip Island than JLo has scored all year.

 

You've got to be kidding me! It starts from you saying they should have retained Lorenzo, followed by an implication that his results wouldn't have been any better based on where he finished last weekend on a Honda. You sure you want to talk to me about speculation?

 

Looking back JLo would have been better served staying on with Yami. But he didn’t.
Looking back 2.0 JLo would have been better served staying with Ducati. But he didn’t.
Looking back 3.0 he apparently has his work cut out for him staying on the honder.

 

I'm not necessarily convinced. A fresh start from where he was in his last year with Yamaha wasn't a bad idea.

The problem is that things were not handled well at Ducati and they wasted a year and a half. I think they could have cut that short to "just" one year of struggling. And then just when things got right, they split up due to poor relationship management.

One bad year to get away from Rossi while making a shit-ton of money would have been worth it.