Jack Be Nimble, Jack Be Quick

Just don't renege on your contract, you little pr!ck.

 

VDS burned his biscuits.

 

If he wants to move on they will have to acquiesce. No point in keeping a rider who doesn't want to be there.

 

So long as he can afford to buy himself out of the contract.

Seems like a little prick to me anyways. Hope Fenati beats him in the championship.

 

Bartholemy if a weasel and I don't mind him getting fucked but a contract is a contract.

 

Spite is a pretty good reason.

 

Not if they want results. I believe Ferracci went through this when Polen wanted to ride for Honda. He could have made it real difficult for Doug to leave but he reasoned that having a rider who didn't want to ride for you was not good for results.

 

It's a bit much when ol' Michael seems like the good guy.

 

This a bitch to be happening, all parties have been great for wach other. Maybe it will lead too them racing in the Motogp class next year using Suzuki.

I would really like to see Jack on the Suzuki as second rider in 2015

 

I will never understand why any party to these type of deals feel like going public or making any public statements is actually a good thing. I can't see this type of behavior improving the relationship between the two.

In any event, I'm surprised a buy out clause isn't standard in every rider/team contract.

 

A Lot people do not consider a verbal and a hand shake a CONTRACT< but it is just that if can be proven that it took place!

 

My guess would be the relationship is already strained. The team is just letting other teams know to back off

 

A verbal and a handshake aren't a contract anymore. Haven't been in 25 years. . . if the people involved don't want them to be.

A contract isn't worth the lawyer's fee it takes to write them if one party wants to walk away, a pre contract is a freakin' joke (outside of the record industry). Want out of a contract? Hire a lawyer and be prepared to pay.

 

All true I guess sadly to say

 

I've spent maybe two months on a contract and it's wording that could be handled by an email and a letter of authorization. If I hired a lawyer for this shit, I'd be in it about $10K with my lawyer's rate.

and it'd be worth exactly shit if pressed if I had paid the cash.

As for Miller, he's f@cked. He's up against a Billionaire with a legal team. He'd be smart to either cough up the exit cash, otherwise he's going to pay a lot more later.

 

From the article:

I'm anything but a contract laywer, but why is the team even at the point they're at with Jack if he hasn't yet signed either the pre or final contract? If they play strictly by the existence of a contract, then nothing should start until it's signed, sealed and delivered.

Right?

 

I read it that a pre contract has been signed. All they were waiting for was the minutia to be worked out and drawn up, written out in legalese and signed.

A pre contract can be as enforceable and could block Jack from signing anything with anyone else.

 

exactually as I read it Dave.

 

Ahh...I misread about the pre-contract. Sure seems like some shoddy management on Jack's team to me.

 

Lying cheating Aussie for ya
Kid has mad skills, but you can't burn bridges when you are still on your way up in this sport