Yup, it’s official. Racing is now stupid, uninteresting and unwatchable.

It’s so gratifying to see that no matter how bad a situation is, a journalist can always make it worse. No wonder I hate the press so much. A fitting punishment would be to tie them to chairs at Valencia and fit them with dog collars that shock them every time Marquez opens the throttle in the next race.

One of the big tactics among established stars in almost any form of racing is to accuse the new guys that are willing to take the bigger risks they aren’t, of riding unsafely. Senna did it, Schumacher did it they all do it. The fact is that rossi had intent to interfere with Marc in the middle of a race. Did you not…

rossi should have been black flagged. He slowed down when he should have been accelerating, looked back 3 times to see where Marquez was then pushed him out to the edge of the track as Marquez tried to ride around the outside. This was a very deliberate move and totally unacceptable. His penalty was very light because…

No, this is what money gets you.

This is classic Rossi trying to get into Marc’s head. He played these head games with Biaggi and Gibernau as well. Marc should just keep doing what he’s doing. Turnabout is fair play.

Wow. I used to think McLaren was the class of the field but they’re really screwing the pooch on a lot of levels. I’d bet long winded Ron started telling his assistant to do the email two weeks before but only finished 10 minutes before it was sent after going through all the history and blather about McLaren’s…

I’d stick with the V-6 base model for about $43k and do my own customizing for dirt bikes, track bikes and work tools. That’s still a lot left over for gas and ammo. I wonder how it would do with a nice V-8.

They should do the clean 1967 version as an entry level track only model with modern suspension, a 3.0 normally aspirated motor and a curb weight under 2400 lbs. ready to go. Put it in a spec series and watch the fun

Maybe a large part of the problem is lawmakers and the dopey environmentalists. They want to get rid of the automobile and having ridiculous standards is a way for them to accomplish that, plunge us into another dark age and still feel good about themselves. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a TDI smoking the way the old…

While I certainly admire his work ethic and attitude I certainly wouldn’t want to emulate his riding style and mental processes. Yeah, I get the everyman, tough-guy bounces back meme and the tie in to every man’s desire to be unbreakable (with claws no less), but my general impression of him is that he seems to crash…

Yeah, been there done that, never again. I wound up having to go get one of them before he froze to death and had to babysit the other 3 and their unorthodox solutions. My backpacking groups stay small now.

The fact is that these are highly stressed components, just like the engines and brakes. Nobody squawked that Mercedes or Ferrari builds an inferior product when Hulkenberg’s or Sainz engines went out. This is not a video game where you have simulated forces and no external events to contend with. In the real world…