MotoGP Sepang! The excitement begins!!!

bugsy46 · Village Idiot Joined: 16 Mar 2004 Karma :

Well folks! Here we are at the last three races! 14 points seperate Rossi and Gibernau and ANYTHING can happen! There has already been an exchange of words between the two rivals and things are certainly hotting up VERY fast! Heres some links which will give those of you who havnt been updated on the latest news a bit of a background as to whats going on! Enjoy!

mamola explains the feud between rossi and gibernau

https://motogp.tiscali.com/ppv_multimedia2/310/310340_11273.wmv

highlights from QP2

https://motogp.tiscali.com/ppv_multimedia2/311/311002_69858.wmv

timing sheets from QP2
https://motogp.tiscali.com/en/motogp/results/results_2673.htm?event_id=2673&subevent_id=4754&result=32316

mamola looks ahead to the race
https://motogp.tiscali.com/ppv_multimedia2/311/311005_42708.wmv
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olliet1 · L Plate Warrior Joined: 09 Oct 2004 Karma :

dont you think rossi is acting like a kid at the moment blaming sete for his troubles in last race, not like him to loose his cool, is the preasure getting to him? hes making him self look like a bad looser, and is loosing a bit of suport as well/ Question

loply · World Chat Champion Joined: 24 Mar 2004 Karma :

I take it the race is on British Eurosport on Sunday?

What time?

N_Tart · Two Stroke Sniffer Joined: 06 Oct 2004 Karma :

Sete threw his toys out first by complaining. He was probably jealous that his mechanics where to stupid to think of it!

It's not like Rossi to join in though, maybe it's a ploy and he just wants Sete to think he's losing his cool.

bugsy46 · Village Idiot Joined: 16 Mar 2004 Karma :

Your right mate! Rossi did the same thing last year! The team didnt know they were doing anything wrong when cleaning the grid. This has been going on for ages, Doohans team for example used to do it all the time back in the 90's. Thumbs Up

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8316 · Could Be A Chat Bot Joined: 08 Jul 2004 Karma :

maybe it's a conspiracy for sete to win it, and for rossi to finally lose!(that doesn't make sense does it?)
whatever happens at sepang, i want a kawasaki up there, the point gap to close and for sete and rossi to fight at valencia properly for it. nothing like home support eh, sete? Laughing

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N_Tart · Two Stroke Sniffer Joined: 06 Oct 2004 Karma :

Needs to go down to the wire. It'll be exciting but I want Rossi to stuff Honda.

I hope the kwaks do well working in one of their dealerships I ought to be loyal I suppose!

8316 · Could Be A Chat Bot Joined: 08 Jul 2004 Karma :

hey bugsy46, aren't the highlights copied illegally?
i love it Very Happy

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Andy99 · Spanner Monkey Joined: 16 Aug 2004 Karma :

It's all a bit childish really as Valentino and Sete used to be quite good mates by all accounts.I suppose when a world championship is at stake and you're rivals for it,friendships go out the window.
Sete comes across much more professional to me,especially as he tried to congratulate Rossi on his victory today,shame Rossi couldn't accept it,especially as a 30 point lead with 2 races to go means Rossi has almost got to give it away to lose it.
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tgabber · Crazy Courier Joined: 03 Jun 2004 Karma :

Not the most exciting race of the season today.

I was interested to get some more background on the spat between Rossi and Gibeneau and found this article which goes into the whole thing in quite a lot of detail:

https://www.speedtv.com/articles/moto/motogp/13269/

I didn't know about the scooters doing burnouts on the grid in the dark the day before the Japan race!
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bugsy46 · Village Idiot Joined: 16 Mar 2004 Karma :

Todyas race was FANTASTIC! How the hell was that boring? For 90% of the race it was close between biaggi and rossi Confused

8316 · Could Be A Chat Bot Joined: 08 Jul 2004 Karma :

yeah, i thought it was funny that rossi aknowleged biaggi, but completely blanked gibernau! quite funny and good for rossi for thrashing everyone!
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8316 · Could Be A Chat Bot Joined: 08 Jul 2004 Karma :

i think you will find it was barros that was holding up rossi. biaggi didn't lead, though it would have bee nice for some proper dicing
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Andy99 · Spanner Monkey Joined: 16 Aug 2004 Karma :

Yeah i saw Assen,Rossi beat Sete a treat and Sete was annoyed at the time but was fine later. The pressure is on them both and Rossi was playing mind games with Sete on the run up to this race as it was so important. If Sete was man enough to offer Rossi his hand why couldn't Rossi accept it? After all his problem is with HRC and Sete's chief engineer,as i said Rossi and Sete used to be mates.
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