Ένα ενδιαφέρων άρθρο που πέτυχα, το μεταφέρω αυτούσιο (αμετάφραστο):
In 60-odd years of the motorcycling world championship, no one has taken more from MotoGP and contributed less than Dani Pedrosa.
In his eighth year in the big game, all on a factory bike, he’s won occasionally, but infrequently, only when the Honda is the quickest bike on the track, and never been a serious championship contender. Worse, he’s been a miserable sportsman since day one. He was generally a prick throughout his career, despite his junior category titles coming with the benefit of superior equipment, backed by a shitload of Spanish sponsorship cash. And the whole time he went out of his way to be an arsehole to other competitors, most notably Casey Stoner in the 250cc championship, when Stoner was challenging him on far inferior machinery and a shoestring budget.
03_26pedrosa_pedrosa_crash_fp3_01_slideshow_169MotoGP is the grail to which all racers aspire, and it’s what inspires the motorcycling purist. It’s the pinnacle of competitions that run the world over in innumerable categories. It is, therefore, more than just a sport. It’s an industry. Riders, teams, manufacturers and to some extent, sponsors are stakeholders in this industry. And the spectator is integral, because without the punter, MotoGP would not exist at all. In this context, Dani Pedrosa is a parasite. He is the Spanish tick that draws lifeblood from the entity that is Motogp, but contributes nothing.
Just as a tick works tirelessly to find a suitable position on it’s host, so too Pedrosa worked hard to get to MotoGP. Being Spanish, he enjoyed support and financial backing not available to many other nationalities, but he had both the ability and work ethic to make it. The point is that in the eight years he’s been there, he hasn’t contributed much beyond riding the bike. As a personality, he’s given nothing to the sport the way the likes of Rossi, Edwards, Hayden, Capirossi, etc have over the same period. Pedrosa’s contribution to MotoGP is all about Pedrosa. And without MotoGP, what would Dani Pedrosa be? A motorcycle courier? An author of children’s books? A midget in an Ewok costume in the next Star Wars movie?
Dani-Pedrosa-CrashGifted the best bike on the track when he entered the big league in 2006, he’s spent the last eight seasons looking like a spoilt little bitch. When he wins, he’s arrogant and aloof. When he loses, he’s a whinging fucking sook. He has the personality of an ingrown toenail and has contributed nothing in terms of character or colour to the championship. Even Biaggi brought character to the circus, and he was an arrogant prick too. And what’s the go with his sycophant bumchum Puig following him all over the world to tickle his balls and dry his eyes when he gets beaten. That’s pathetic, he looks like an over-protective tennis parent. Remember that spoilt little kid in primary school who ran to his mother every time he didn’t get his own way? That’s Dani Pedrosa. But instead he has Puig to run to, to defend his feelings. Fair enough, it was tragic to see Puig’s own career cut short by his own crash in 1995, but racing vicariously through Pedrosa isn’t going to deliver the championship he still desires.
All Pedrosa’s victories have been soft. When the pressure’s been applied he’s caved. Can he ride a bike? Oh fuck yeah. He shares a degree of the super-human abilities of those chosen few, and while some of his wins have been impressive, they’ve all been when his bike’s been the best on the day. He hasn’t pushed an inferior bike to the front, and I can’t recall him ever being involved in a decent battle. He either leads from the front, or trails around behind the leaders. He demonstrates frequently that he has an incredible ability to ride a motorbike fast, yet he can’t mix it when it comes to banging fairings. With clear track he’s as fast as anyone in the world, but he lacks the racecraft to compete seriously with fellow aliens Rossi, Lorenzo, Stoner, and now Marquez.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO0pxaHKjWU&feature=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ3JLDhsMaM&feature=digest
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Perhaps he’d have more championship success if he channeled his energy into riding, rather than being a prick. Remember King Carlos of Spain forcing him to shake Lorenzo’s hand on the podium of the Spanish GP? What a disgrace. Royal intervention to force a display of sportsmanship on the world stage? Is that the way for a prospective world champion to behave? Is that how he sees himself as a role-model to aspiring bike racers the world over? Fucking pathetic. He could take a leaf from the book someone like Colin Edwards, who even in the heat of battle, win, lose, crash, or get taken out displays nothing but respect to his fellow competitors, and the motorcycling public who enable him to have that job. He, Rossi, Hayden and their like are great sportsmen, and great men. Pedrosa by that measure is neither.
There’s nothing wrong with a stoush in the course of events. The ferocity of competition at that level demands it. It’s part of the game, like Casey Stoner walking down to the Ducati pit to slag Rossi off for taking him out at turn one, and Rossi taking it with good humour. But sooking is unbecoming a sportsman of that calibre. And it undermines the courage he has to lean off the side of a machine that’s more projectile than motorcycle. To get back on a GP bike so soon after serious injury takes intestinal fortitude the rest of the world can barely imagine. Sulking and dummy-spitting betrays that courage. Perpetually walking around looking like he’s just been force-fed a turd sandwich is not what you expect from someone who’s paid millions to fly around the world and race the world’s most exciting machinery.
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Stoner broke his fragile spirit when he arrived on the scene at Repsol Honda and handed him his arse. Suddenly he couldn’t make excuses about the bike, so he just spent more time sooking in the pits. Now Marc Marquez has arrived and made him look like a complete twat. It took him all of 5 minutes to beat Pedrosa on a bike that was developed around him. Moreover, the Marquez scenario is the Sharknado that terrifies Pedrosa: a teammate who swept into the class with a wave of excitement, is also Spanish, faster than he is, younger, and more popular than himself.
Marquez is the real deal. Pedrosa is a pretender. He’s had a successful career, but he’ll never win the one championship that matters. And despite what Sete Gibernau used to cling to, there’s no such thing as a ‘Vice-champion’. Pedrosa’s handful of fans want to rely on his injuries as an excuse? Oh please. Mick Doohan won five consecutive championships, he obviously never had an injury.
It’s time for Repsol to fuck him off and get someone with some ticker on that bike. Bradl, Bautista or Espargaro would do more with that machinery. As to the question of whether any of those guys would win the championship on the Repsol bike, well, probably not. But they’d add more to the competition and display the true spirit of motorcycle racing, which gives much more to the sport generally.
If I wanted to watch a prima donna sulking in the pits I’d watch F1.
Fuck off Dani Pedrosa. Don’t hit the airfence on your way out.
http://www.bikeme.tv/index.php/dani-...gest-parasite/
Δεν μπορώ παρά να παραδεχτώ οτι ο συγγραφέας έχει τα δίκια του. Αμάν με τον νάνο τελος πάντων.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO0pxaHKjWU&feature=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ3JLDhsMaM&feature=digest
αμφιβαλεις δλδ οτι ειναι πολυ γρηγορος οδηγος και ουσιαστικα δεν εχει παρει καποιο πρωταθλημα λογω ατυχιων??
και προσεξε...οποτε πεφτει και χτυπαει σοβαρα, ειναι απολυτως φυσιολογικο μετα να ειναι πιο "φυλαγμενος" και διστακτικος σε μαχες και προσπερασεις...
μετραει πολυ περισσοτερο την καθε του κινηση και περναει μονο οταν ειναι ΑΠΟΛΥΤΑ σιγουρος οτι δεν θα προκαλεσει ατυχημα σε αυτον ή σε καποιον αλλον...
τα ιδια ισχυουν και για τον Lorenzo...το αντιθετο βεβαια ισχυει για τον marquez, λογω ηλικιας και χαρακτηρα...
εδω ο rossi, μια φορα επεσε και χτυπησε σοβαρα και ακομα να επανελθει πληρως...
ο pedrosa ειναι η προσωποποιηση του robopilot...
και φυσικα απιστευτη ατυχια σχεδον σε καθε πρωταθλημα...με σοβαρους τραυματισμους που τον αφηνουν εκτος 1-3 αγωνες καθε χρονια...
εγω πρωτος ελεγα και λεω οτι του λειπει η μαχητικοτητα, αλλα αν το δεις αντικειμενικα, εχει πολυ δικιο να φυλαγεται απο παντου...
και οσο για την συγκριση που εγινε με τον doohan (επειδη ηταν και αυτος "μισος" απο καποιο σημειο και μετα), εχω να πω οτι ο doohan ηταν σε μεγαλο βαθμο ανισορροπος (σαν ανθρωπος) και ειχε αποδειξει οτι η ζωη του δεν ειχε και πολυ μεγαλη αξια σε σχεση με τους αγωνες...
αν εχεις λοιπον το σκεπτικο νοσοκομειο/θανατος ή νικη, χαιρω πολυ, θα παρεις και κανα ΠΠ...αν δεν πεθανεις...![]()
Φυσικά και διαφωνώ.
Οι τραυματισμοί του είναι το κουκούλωμα των οπαδών του για να κρύψουν το οτι είναι looser. Αν οι τραυματισμοί του είναι η αιτία για να μην έχει πάρει πρωτάθλημα, τι είναι οι δεκάδες προσωπικές ήττες του σε man to man καταστάσεις που έδωσαν βαθμούς και πρωταθλήματα στους αντιπάλους και αφαίρεσαν απ΄αυτόν?
Κανένας οδηγός 1ης κλάσης δεν πτοήθηκε από τραυματισμούς. Ο Lorenzo πχ ή ο Stoner ή ο Rossi ή παλαιότερα ο Doohan σταμάτησαν να είναι killers επειδή είχαν τραυματισμούς? Ή πιστεύεις οτι ο Marquez ΑΝ έχει κάποιο τραυματισμό θα γίνει κότα?
Sorry, αλλά σ΄αυτά τα αθλήματα αν δεν είσαι killer, καληνύχτα θείε Τακη
ΥΓ1. Ενας στρατηγός κάποτε είπε " Δεν με ενδιαφέρει αν κάποιος είναι άτυχος ή άχρηστος. Το αποτέλεσμα παραμένει το ίδιο"
ΥΓ2. Το ότι 8 χρόνια καβαλάει εργοστασιακό και έχει ένα @χιδι ως αποτέλεσμα, το κάνουμε γαργάρα ναι? Όχι τίποτα άλλο, αλλά βαρέθηκα να σας διαβάζω να τα χώνετε στον Rossi που είναι φέτος 4ος και πρέπει να πάει σπίτι του, επειδή στερεί εργοστασιακά από αναβάτες που το αξίζουν περισσότερο. Πόσους αναβάτες έχει κάψει ο κοντός ως Α αναβάτης μέχρι την έλευση του Stoner έχετε πάρει χαμπάρι? Ακόμα και το 06 που το πήρε ο Heyden, το HRC για τον κοντό έφτιαχνε μηχανάκι.
ΥΓ3. Μη τρελαθούμε τώρα, που βρίσκετε δικαιολογίες για τον φαροφύλακα. Ήμαρτον λέμε...
Δυστυχώς υπάρχουν βάσιμες υποψίες ότι θα αντικαταστήσει τον Dinklage στο ρόλο του Tyrion Lannister....
Αλίμονο σ’ αυτούς που δεν ξέρουν ότι δεν ξέρουν αυτά που δεν ξέρουν.
Σωστος στο μυαλο μου εισαι.
Τι να κανουμε ρε παιδια μπορει να εισαι κορυφαιος και να μην σηκωσεις ποτε κουπα,να αρχισω να αναφερω παραδειγματα απ ολα τα αθληματα τωρα,απο που να ξεκινησω απο nba που κολωσοι δεν εχουν σηκωσει απο μπαλα απο που θελετε?
Δεν σημαινει αυτο οτι δεν εισαι κορυφαιος.
Εσεις τον λετε αχρηστο αυτη ειναι η ενσταση μου.
ποιος απο αυτους που αναφερεις (Lorenzo, Stoner, Rossi, Doohan) ειχε ΣΟΒΑΡΟΥΣ τραυματισμους που του εκοβα 2-3 αγωνες, καθε χρονια?
οι δεκαδες ηττες σου σε man to man καταστασεις, εχει να κανει με την επιφυλακτικοτητα του λογω των τραυματισμων του...το ανελυσα παραπανω...