Looks like a typical pit flare up to me. The stuff happens regularly, just not always on film.

you can criticize Pedrosa as long as you want ( he will still take the title) just watch your words .....and with all the **** your spreading on youtube too this topic should be called "STILL NEED A REASON TO HATE ROBERTO ROLFO?"

RR.. I can find plenty of reasons to hate Dani on my own thank-you. However... I also recall Roberto Rolfo taking out Dani once in a pathetic effort to demonstrate he was championship material.... Question? Need another reason to hate Roberto Rolfo?

Shocking , a confrontation in a 1 2 5 race!!! Ok as the 125 nut on this board, the video is one of the tamer ones. Can't remember the riders but back in the late 80's 2 125 riders came to blows..........on the main straight............while riding the race. Couple of Italians had boxed in a Spainard who feeling it was intentional slugged one of the Italians who threw one back.
So first it's evil Dani Robot and then he shows some passion and it's evil uncontrolled Pedrosa? The incident was a typical 125 melee...........packs of guys furiously jockeying for a spot and then two of them coming together one falling and then a confrontation..................racing incident pure and simple.

Tom

BiaggisToupe - 16 May 2008 12:53 PM

LJB-OSB - 16 May 2008 12:36 PM

RR, the melodrama is too much.

Put on your birra goggles and you'll be able to see it the way RR does. He reminds me of those "Ask a ..." columns at The Onion, where questions are replied to with tedious non-sequiturs.

Ask an Italian Jingoist

Q: My boyfriend dumped me for my best friend. What should I do?
A: Marco Melandri is twice the rider Toseland will ever be, and Pedrosa isn't fit to clean Rossi's boots with his tongue.

Q: A co-worker is having an affair with an intern. Should I tell our supervisor?
A: Doviozioso has more talent in his ingrown toenail than Hayden has in his whole body, and Biaggi was fired because he spoke his mind to his Japanese overlords.

etc.

Ok... yes... there are lots of incidents in the 125 class. Incidents even more heated than this...

But this one involves the (until yesterday) MotoGP world championship leader. This one involves one of the top riders in the world, who has an 'often discussed' personality. That is why I brought it up.

And sorry if it sounds 'melodramatic' but the video infuriated me. Yes, the incident on the track was a fairly normal incident... but Dani's reaction and his blame was not.

Dani was wrong for accusing the other guy. Ok, that is bad but not that bad. What made me crazy was that he was basically acting like an arogant bully. He was acting like the big star that could do no wrong. He was basically arguing that Perugini had no right to even go near him... That doesn't make you mad? You don't think that it is people like that that make the world a $hity place to live in?


Whatever, AZRifel gets it... and that is good enough for me.

dude... you have admitted that you do not even know what Pedro is saying... your perception of the encounter is tainted by your emotions... that is not unusual for you...

hell... they were not even raising their voices...

the fact that a rather innocuous video can "infuriate" someone so much is endlessly amusing to me...

RR, calm down. Things happen pretty quickly in a race, particularly in a 125 race. And having a difference of opinion as to what happened or who is at fault is not uncommon. Ever seen Doohan and Criville "discussing" an incident, where they both went down. #### happens. As long as people don't get hurt, it's part of the fun of motorcycle road racing. I don't really hear much about Dani's personality. Mostly I hear that he's a hard worker and can be a bit of a reserved, nerdy kind of dude, with total focus on his job. Doesn't party. Doesn't give blowup dolls rides around the track. If he's not your cup of tea, so be it.

"He was basically arguing that Perugini had no right to even go near him... That doesn't make you mad? You don't think that it is people like that that make the world a $hity place to live in?" care to give us a link ? i have seen nothing like that in those clips . I have seen riders kicking other riders bikes , boxing or whatever .....you can hate riders like Xaus , Hopkins , Biaggi and im sure you can find a few more, for their personalities ......but to hate Pedro for moving his finger too fast (and its not the only time) is way too much

LJB, you don't think Dani walking way in a huff after the argument is nothing?

And I understand enough to see Dani and Puig attacking Perugini, who responds with a reasonable "I was just riding on my line and you hit me", to which Dani responds with a resounding "No, you don't know what you are talking about..."


Look, I get it.. some of you watch your hour of speed on Sunday and that is it. That is your exposure to the GP world. Fine. And for you, it might not seem like a big idea.

But some of us follow it more closely (yes, maybe I need to get a life). Some of us are familliar with Piug and Pedrosa going through 125's and 250's like their $hit didn't stink. Like Dani was entitled to everything, and other guys shouldn't even bother to race him or go near him... less they disturb his ascendance to greatness.

Perugini was just a kid trying to make a career out of racing. He was fighting for the title that year... and now he is nobody. So yeah, I don't like watching him be insulted by Dani and Piug. Not because of what happened on track, but because of his status.