Rossi complaining

[ArmchairBikeFan]

I think Rossi makes some valid points, but he has been a bit of a moaning cow lately.

[Ranger]

The fact is that he (with Michelin) have been beat. If Michelin and particularly Michelin riders stop complaining and focus on improvement, then perhaps they will be closer to the front.

[ChrisS]

Rossi: Ducati and Stoner deserve the title

http://www.motogp.com/en/motogp/moto...&news_id=20862

[NinjaMaster]

I am over Rossi's public moaning about his bike and tyres but he has every right to give Yamaha an earful for giving him a substandard bike for the second year running. He should hold his tongue on Michelin who have been great support in his past championships and this is the first time they have struggled. With this years data they will be back competitive next year. And of all things, stop complaining about the tyre rules. The rules aren't the problem, it is the company making them!

[Silver]

Hmmmm... Is he actually whinging, or are people just picking up on him pointing out the problems with his package (because he's never struggled like this before in his career)? Anyway, five minutes looking back through his quotes from the last few races and there's not a whole lot of complaining going on:

After Misano: "Once again Stoner deserved to win today, so well done to him."

After Laguna Seca: "We are not giving up; there are seven races left and we know that Michelin are going to work as hard as they possibly can in order to make the situation better for the second part of the season, but Stoner is very strong and we know it will be very hard."

After Sachsenring: "Finally I made my move and I made a great pass but I made a mistake and lost the front. I'm so disappointed because today our package was working very well and we missed the chance to make up a lot of points on Stoner."

After Assen: "This was an incredible race. I think maybe one of the top five of my career! Clearly starting from 11th is quite lucky for us because I've won a few times from that position, including last year at Sachsenring."

After Donington Park: "I had to go very carefully just to be able to finish and, because we were riding with a wet tyre on a dry track, my tyre was destroyed by the end. Colin did a great job in difficult circumstances so congratulations to him. We've had a very long meeting tonight and now we have to try to improve the situation for Assen."

After Catalunya: "What a race! Even if I'm disappointed not to win, it's a great emotion to be part of a race like that and fantastic fun. It really was an amazing battle to the end with many wonderful overtaking manoeuvres by both of us in all different parts of the track! Unfortunately I lost a bit of time at the start and then it was quite hard to pass Hopkins because he was fantastic on the brakes. Then with Stoner it was a great fight and honestly I couldn't have tried harder to win, but he was a very hard rival."

After Mugello: "My team have worked brilliantly, my bike was perfect and I could ride it exactly how I wanted, I need to say a huge thank you to them and also to Michelin."

After Le Mans: "We had hoped that this would be a track at which we could gain some ground on Stoner and it's going to be a very hard battle from here because he is very fast, not just on the straights but everywhere! I want to congratulate Chris Vermeulen today because he rode a great race, I think he's a bit of a magician in the rain!"

After Shanghai: "I enjoyed today a lot, it was a great race, a really exciting battle and my Yamaha was fantastic to the end. We knew that this track would be difficult for us so to be able to fight with Stoner at 100% for the entire race was a great feeling. Of course it's not a win, but I think second place is a very good result for us here."

Etc etc...

[patnicholls]

Good post, Silver.

Media manipulation is something they all have to be careful of

[tha_jackal]

I think Rossi's comment that "Yamaha must change something .. I prefer to do something else than race if I have to race like this" was very much made in the heat of the moment..

Being an Ant West fan, I know that heat of the moment comments can cause a person to be mis-represented and mis-interpreted..

We all know Vale relishes a challenge, and he will be doing everything in his power to get up the front again, however its up to Yamaha and Michelin to give him the tools neccesary and ensure he doesnt become dis-illusioned and go off rally driving for FIAT

[leopard]

Slightly agree about excessive complaint

I still think that michelin have problem solver from their great experience in racing, Yamaha is going to the right direction with Lorenzo. This guy has similar riding style like Sete, while mostly riders bend the back down when riding he rides slightly upright.

Elias has the more unique style, always put the seat off

[neninja]

I'm getting irritated by the talk of changing the rules again for tyres.

MotoGP has become too much about one person - Rossi. If he's not winning then many of his fans stop watching MotoGP.

This inevitably means that Dorna is under pressure to change the rules to help Rossi start winning again and regain their viewing numbers. Rossi's been quoted as saying the racing has become 'ugly' and too much like F1. Well we had a similar situation for the last year of 500's and the first 2 years of MotoGP 990 when Rossi could win by whatever margin he felt like almost every week. He could even be penalised by 10 secs and still win the race. Rossi chose to mix it with other riders early in the race but with several laps to go he'd stop playing and take off. Stoner chooses to clear off at the start and maintain a gap.

Did anyone change the rules to help the other riders compete? Did the viewing public say that it was boring? No.

Rossi's just getting the same treatment he dished out to the field for several seasons and he hates it. Same meat different gravy.

[jonny hurlock]

let rossi complaining, his not that wrost than Alonso,
look rossi is just having a poor season, let the doctor have his complaining I'm not intrested about his moaning, i'm intrested in his driving