quote of the year!!!!!!!!

[Shifu]

Stoner said that he heard Rossi coming and moved over to let him through, which is what the footage seemed to show. Fact is Rossie lost it and took out Stoner who is one of the very few riders to be able to handle the Ducati, and is doing great on the Honda, so you also have to give him some cred for his riding ability also.

I don't think there was anything wrong with the comment. As previously posted, makes damnded good Phsych warfare next time Rossi is in a push with Stoner, and was a decidedly cool Australian response (as opposed to sticking his boot up Rossi's arse for what was a dumb arse manouver in the conditions).

The footage seems to show Rossi being decidedly late on the braking and carrying too much speed to the conditions. Perhaps he thought he would be slightly ahead of Stoner and able to drift wider?

End of the day, he f****d up, Stoner was cool(ish) about it and got in a GREAT dig! Being one of the 'great's' doen't give excuse a dickhead pass or make veryone else have to get out of your way.

As for those who think Rossi the greatest rider of all time - He's had the best bike when Honda were on top, the best bike with Yamaha. Stoner beat him when Rossi didn't have the best all round bike, but Stoner did it on a bike that everyone else seemed to think was a dog to control.

Personally I think Mike Hailwood - he had to ride some underpowered (Brit bikes) or evil handling machines (early Honda's) on incredibly dangerous tracks - (not to forget Duke, Surtees (Bike and F1 world champ), Agostini) and what about Mick Doohan - Mick may have only won 5 championships but Honda put him on some truly vile equipment. Anyone remember the Honda 500's with an almost 'all on - all off' throttle - they took skill to (almost) control, and frames that seemed to have a ball joint under the seat.

Man, I dot think any one questions Caseys ability to ride a bike fast. It is not always that the fastest bike vins the race so I think you undervalue greatly Rossi as a rider. The results speak for himself. The think is that all that will be recorded and tabled about this race is that Rissi finished 5th and Stoner DNF. Not sure if you have seen an interview with Mick Doohan and his comment on the incident. He wasn't going about it like a pork chop but simply said that this is racing, and people make a mistakes and accidents do and will happened. Why there is so quite about the incident that took the Marquez out in Moto2 race? That was more of the f*** up when that Frenchie run into his a*se. Yet no one whinges about that.