[Other Sport] MotoGP is dangerous

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Common as Mook

Not Posh as Fook

Jul 26, 2004

5,630

• Sep 10, 2018

• #21

Banned for life? He should be arrested and charged!!!

 

Gabbafella

Well-known member

Aug 22, 2012

4,710

• Sep 10, 2018

• #22

The balotelli of Moto GP2 by the sound of it.
I work for a motorcycle company and although I don't ride, all the guys at work found it shocking that a so-called professional rider did this to a fellow rider. It doesn't take a genius to work out the result could've have gone spectacularly wrong.
Dangerous ******** and deserved the sacking. Hopefully he'll never see a race track again.

 

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Raleigh Chopper

New member

Sep 1, 2011

12,054

Plymouth

• Sep 10, 2018

• #23

Very unusual in bike racing that.
Sure there are rivals, especially in Moto GP, Lorenzo and Marquez don't get on, but there is a professional camaraderie in bike racing due to the nature of what they do.
They are more like lads rather than the dislike between drivers and teams in F1.
But that guy should never get on a racing bike again.

 

Easy 10

Brain dead MUG SHEEP

Jul 5, 2003

61,772

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• Sep 10, 2018

• #24

mejonaNO12 aka riskit said:

When I say he has pre planned that, I mean it is not an INSTANT moment of rage. It's not like a footballer being kicked and retaliating immediately. That's an instant reaction.

In the widely shown clip where it shows the riders entering the straight where he grabs the brake, there are 6 seconds of riding before he done it.

So, the fact he was riled by something that happened a couple of bends EARLIER means he had a VERY long time to not retaliate.


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I have just read the telegraph story on this and it says the retaliation happened because of Manzi's attempt to overtake him a FEW LAPS earlier.

That's even more shocking. He's had laps to think about it.

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Having watched it a couple of times, I don't actually think he planned it. I don't know of course, but my guess is that it hadn't even occurred to him until just about the moment he pulled up alongside, realised he was close enough just to reach over, and then in a moment of utter madness actually went ahead and did it.

The fact that this thought even entered his head proves that he should never be allowed to race again. There's clearly something wrong with him.

 

Juan Albion

Chicken Sniffer 3rd Class

Jul 9, 2003

31,370

Pontypool (Not THAT Pontypool, the one with the zo

• Sep 10, 2018

• #25

He needs to be banned for life because the other riders deserve to be able to race without worrying about him doing it again when he happens to be alongside them.

 

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Raleigh Chopper

New member

Sep 1, 2011

12,054

Plymouth

• Sep 10, 2018

• #26

Juan Albion said:

He needs to be banned for life because the other riders deserve to be able to race without worrying about him doing it again when he happens to be alongside them.

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They have enough problems to worry about, like coming flying off at 200 MPH without that melt helping him along.
A lot of 'offs' are caused by front brake errors ( a little too much pressure at the wrong time) if that idiot had actually managed to get a decent squeeze on the lever there was every chance that he was in the gravel.