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Post by René on Sept 6, 2018 16:06:02 GMT
The home race for Valentino Rossi and the Ducati HQ is not far away also. But Honda did all the winning in the previous three years. Most victories though on this track are for Yamaha so maybe chance for another Rossi miracle. After the cancelled British Grand Prix it's time for some two wheel action again!   |
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Post by Jamie on Sept 7, 2018 21:30:30 GMT
The Italian races are always a treat so I’m looking forward to this one.
Can’t watch this live however as I’ve told British Telecom to poke their services where the sun don’t shine! An incompetent organisation who blatantly lie to their customers!!!!!!
Anyone know if this is streamed free anywhere?
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Post by chrisb on Sept 9, 2018 17:10:19 GMT
was away this weekend so have just started to catch up and have just watched the race, very interesting....but what was Fenati doing in M2?? that is so unbelievable - Jaime - I do know Dorna are offering deals to watch it online for the rest of the year which is where I watch it, the no spoiler is great - apart from the moronic president of the Marquez fan club -- sorry commentator Steve Day who is irritating in his fawning over Marquez, I know he is good, I just don't need telling every 10 seconds how good he is- but Mat Birt is good and the pitlane guy Simon is getting very good, they just need to do something about Mr. Day's sychophanticness
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Post by René on Sept 10, 2018 12:00:16 GMT
It was unbelievable what Romano Fenati did. Insane is maybe a better word! I just read he is fired by his team. Good win for Dovi by the way. Could he still challenge Márquez for the championship?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2018 1:22:06 GMT
Fenati - whom I hadn't heard about before the weekend, tbh - comes from "my neck of the woods", Ascoli Piceno. Not only he's been sacked but he will lose the MV place for next year. He can only blame himself. That is a harsh lesson to learn at 22, but it might help him to become a better man. As a rider, he should be done. Sport does not need such characters.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2018 2:19:46 GMT
Only to add, not a justification at all, that modern sport (and life) is very short on role models, people in general feel justified in taking dubious shortcuts to achieve their goals. No wonder someone without a life - before sporting - education can feel entitled to resort to underhand ways, right from the start, in their teens.
Everybody plays the same game, see last week's female final at Flushing Meadow. Contrast the dignity and humanity of the young winner. Perhaps there is hope, after all.
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Post by Carl on Sept 11, 2018 3:50:11 GMT
Only to add, not a justification at all, that modern sport (and life) is very short on role models, people in general feel justified in taking dubious shortcuts to achieve their goals. No wonder someone without a life - before sporting - education can feel entitled to resort to underhand ways, right from the start, in their teens. Everybody plays the same game, see last week's female final at Flushing Meadow. Contrast the dignity and humanity of the young winner. Perhaps there is hope, after all. Lucio,
I agree. Well said. Ultra-competitiveness starts early in life these days.
The signals to Serena from the stands were obvious. Even more apparent is that Serena Williams has greater musculature than most men while sister Venus has the same genes and no bulk. Curious...
Instead of absurdly demanding that she should get a pass from the rules because she's representing oppressed women, she should instead tell the truth about steroids.
A 7% solution... ...a full bore
Venus
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Post by chrisb on Sept 11, 2018 8:09:19 GMT
I follow all three series carefully, the racing in Moto3 is intense and last year was a classic, Fenati was sacked by Rossi a couple of years ago for unspecified reasons - but basically conduct unbecoming- however they appear to make up this year and settle their differences and Fenati started to develop last year and fully deserved his move to Moto2 - where again he showed flashes of speed, but then, if it wasn't so dangerous it was quite funny in a bizarre way, one way to pass them I guess- but it could have resulted in a very serious accident and that is why the guy needs to go away and speak to someone - will he get another ride I don't know, but the bigger question is does he deserve one?
Because of yet another tax-evading trillionaire wanting more I didn't get to watch the tennis this year but the furious response is interesting, off-camera Serena was funny, witty and realistic - who did not forget her humble background, if, since starting to lose she is getting desperate as age and fitness enter her life then that is sad, I do hope she bounces back and maybe big sister can have a quiet word
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2018 9:24:17 GMT
This is Adriano Panatta, winner at Roland Garros in 1976, interviewed on Repubblica yesterday. Great guy, I should add, always very measured.
“She lost her mind. That's all. Because she was losing to a 20-years old girl half-unknown.
Nothing to do with sexism ". Adriano Panatta, winner in Paris in 1976, does not find foundation in Williams's protest, on the contrary he finds it "completely out of place and out of order”.
Q. A man would not have been treated like her, she claims.
A. "Let's not joke. Women in tennis are respected, indeed idolized. We are not talking about this, indeed talking about it is really disproportionate and absurd, above the lines. Let's talk of the fact that Serena has taken one warning for coaching, which is forbidden even if everybody does it. But there are those who are capable to do it and those who are not. It happens to be punished in the course of a career. The judge has applied the rules and she should have, like everyone, accepted it and that's it. Williams, because she is Serena Williams, claims to have immunity? ".
Q. She pretends not to be discriminated against.
A. "In what? Let’s not be ridiculous. It can happen that the umpires make mistakes, and this is not the case, and however, a champion must know how to cancel a possible judge’s mistake and carry on playing. The fact is that someone like her who played hundreds of finals, she couldn’t keep it together. Not because of the warning, but because she was losing ".
Q. What annoys you of most?
A. "The fact that she turned to the judge saying foolish things, saying I'm Williams, putting the daughter in the middle, that she is a mother and therefore as such she does not cheat. Why, a tennis player who is a father cheats? Come on, she went completely out of measure. And right there she showed all her fragility, because this story has nothing to do with sexism, but with the inability to lose. She wanted to transform herself into a victim, even by not accepting reality. Which reality is hard but that is the way it is, so I find redundant all this outcry and also all this media attention. "
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2018 13:10:55 GMT
From the Gazzetta:
Q. Fenati, can you explain what came to your mind?
A. "My blood went to my head, I had adrenaline at full and I f*cked up after several provocations".
Q. Manzi said you wanted to kill him.
A. "Hello ... How can you say such a thing? Mine was more the gesture of someone who wanted to say: "Stop it, look, if I want I'll send you down the ground" ".
Q. What happened before that gesture?
A. "First there was a contact between us in a curve, that's what has been seen in the TV images, but it did not end there, I was on the run-off and he was looking at me and pointing me to throw me out".
The images related to this episode were not broadcast, but are available to the race direction, which in fact in the meeting with the two drivers highlighted the incorrect behavior of Manzi, despite the rider of team Forward (which next year should have been Fenati's teammate) tried to defend himself by saying that he had inadvertently hit Romano because of the loss of grip on the front wheel. Version denied by the video. As well as - it should be pointed out for the record and in any case without mitigating the extreme gravity of the gesture - it is impossible that the slightest touch of Fenati on the brake lever caused a pressure of 20 bar (against the 9 usually exercised) as stated by the same Manzi in the press conference at the end of the race. When Michele Pirro flew to Mugello this year for the blocking of the front wheel, the rider in an attempt to stop the Ducati had exerted a pressure of 15 bar.
Q. Is Fenati's career at this point over?
A. "I do not know, today I could say something, and maybe tomorrow I'll see it in the opposite way ... Now I just want to get this thing off me." "I could not even want to come back."
Then in a TV interview with Mediaset he added: "Now I am going back to school and I finish my studies: in cold blood I say that I won’t race anymore, but I do not really know how I would see myself in 5 years time".
He should go back to complete his studies, earn a life as everybody else, learning something for himself out of all this.
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Post by René on Sept 13, 2018 15:55:55 GMT
He should go back to complete his studies, earn a life as everybody else, learning something for himself out of all this.
He doesn't look like a bookworm to me  but I guess you're right, hopefully he learns from this. It was really a very bad move, regardless his age. |
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but I guess you're right, hopefully he learns from this. It was really a very bad move, regardless his age.