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Re: Qatar - Off-track Stuff

Postby Tourn46 on Thu Apr 05, 2012 8:17 pm

Geonerd wrote:
corinthian wrote:...In my mind they all look like Hemingway wearing a sou'wester.


I envisioned Dani looking something like this: :lol:

(Courtesy of Master Photochopper Mick, as seen at http://www.powerslide.net/forum/index.p ... t&p=309649 )

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I see an episode of Jeremy Kyle coming up...

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Re: Qatar - Off-track Stuff

Postby Squidpuppet on Thu Apr 05, 2012 8:59 pm

OK help me out. I cant tell who the Skipper and MaryAnn are. :oops:

LOL at Vale = Mrs. Howell. :lol:
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Re: Qatar - Off-track Stuff

Postby Geonerd on Thu Apr 05, 2012 9:02 pm

The Skipper is - who else - Alberto Puig. :evil: "Gilligan!!"

Adriana Stoner as Mary Ann. ;)

Casting Carmelo and Rossi as Thurston and 'Lovey' Howell was a masterstroke! :lol: :lol:
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Re: Qatar - Off-track Stuff

Postby Squidpuppet on Thu Apr 05, 2012 9:07 pm

Geonerd wrote:Casting Carmelo and Rossi as Thurston and 'Lovey' Howell was a masterstroke! :lol: :lol:


It could have worked just as well the other way around too. :lol:
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Re: Qatar - Off-track Stuff

Postby Grahluk on Thu Apr 05, 2012 11:25 pm

Who's Ginger?
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Re: Qatar - Off-track Stuff

Postby Squidpuppet on Thu Apr 05, 2012 11:27 pm

Grahluk wrote:Who's Ginger?


RdP's gal. Lauren Vickers
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Re: Qatar - Off-track Stuff

Postby Geonerd on Fri Apr 06, 2012 6:49 pm

As of FP2, 'Lovey' looks to be scheduled for his very own 3 Hour Tour of Qatar on race day. :twisted:
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Re: Qatar - Off-track Stuff

Postby Squidpuppet on Fri Apr 06, 2012 7:21 pm

Geonerd wrote:As of FP2, 'Lovey' looks to be scheduled for his very own 3 Hour Tour of Qatar on race day. :twisted:


Yhe Minnow is lost. :P
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Re: Qatar - Off-track Stuff

Postby Tourn46 on Sat Apr 07, 2012 2:55 pm

I have to say, the Tech3 bikes this year look really nice!

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Re: Qatar - Off-track Stuff

Postby Oscar on Mon Apr 09, 2012 2:57 am

Is it true that Luthi punched Marquez on the cool-down lap? I expect this thread to light up like a bonfire if it's correct...
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Re: Qatar - Off-track Stuff

Postby Squidpuppet on Mon Apr 09, 2012 3:00 am

Oscar wrote:Is it true that Luthi punched Marquez on the cool-down lap? I expect this thread to light up like a bonfire if it's correct...


He gave him a potent slap. It was openhanded, but way harder than Stoners lttle bip on RdP.
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Re: Qatar - Off-track Stuff

Postby Squidpuppet on Mon Apr 09, 2012 3:01 am

QUESTION

What are those blinking lights on the left forearms of all the Alpinestar wearing riders? A heart rate indicator? ?????
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Re: Qatar - Off-track Stuff

Postby Oscar on Mon Apr 09, 2012 3:14 am

Squidpuppet wrote:He gave him a potent slap. It was openhanded, but way harder than Stoners lttle bip on RdP.


So - are we talking Euro 10k here? And two year's worth of Luthi-bashing? I ask only by way of gauging the even-handedness of all concerned in assessing the crime.
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Re: Qatar - Off-track Stuff

Postby Squidpuppet on Mon Apr 09, 2012 3:22 am

Oscar wrote:
Squidpuppet wrote:He gave him a potent slap. It was openhanded, but way harder than Stoners lttle bip on RdP.


So - are we talking Euro 10k here? And two year's worth of Luthi-bashing? I ask only by way of gauging the even-handedness of all concerned in assessing the crime.


I think race control didnt address the Luthi smack issue as a shitty excuse for not addressing the Marquez pass. Covering their asses as they knew all hell would have broken loose if they had fined Luthi and let Marquez slide.
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Re: Qatar - Off-track Stuff

Postby Cam D on Mon Apr 09, 2012 3:23 am

My view is he should have copped equal punishement and pages of comment by the public the same as Casey was, for all the same reasons .... but I'm old enough to realise the world doesn't work that way :D

edit: should add to that, Marquez should have been penalized for dodgy ontrack manouvers. Squid summed it up well when he said they couldn't punish Luthi without nailing Marquez... and that won't happen.
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Re: Qatar - Off-track Stuff

Postby Cam D on Mon Apr 09, 2012 3:24 am

Squidpuppet wrote:
Oscar wrote:
Squidpuppet wrote:He gave him a potent slap. It was openhanded, but way harder than Stoners lttle bip on RdP.


So - are we talking Euro 10k here? And two year's worth of Luthi-bashing? I ask only by way of gauging the even-handedness of all concerned in assessing the crime.


I think race control didnt address the Luthi smack issue as a shitty excuse for not addressing the Marquez pass. Covering their asses as they knew all hell would have broken loose if they had fined Luthi and let Marquez slide.


if they had fined Luthi and let Marquez slide .... says it all.
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Re: Qatar - Off-track Stuff

Postby Oscar on Mon Apr 09, 2012 4:10 am

So, I guess we can expect the stinging denunciation of Luthi to commence once the righteous indignation of the usual protagonists has passed from incandescence into the limpid pools of eternal damnation?
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Qatar - Off-track Stuff

Postby tom on Mon Apr 09, 2012 4:52 am

Oscar you naughty, naughty boy :lol

I suppose the difference between the 2 incidents is that RDP was being careless while MM was being deliberately aggressive. Both very dangerous of coarse.
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Re: Qatar - Off-track Stuff

Postby Zaphod on Mon Apr 09, 2012 5:20 am

My two cents.....

Luthi the same fine that was handed to Stoner.

...his two taps on the helmet to indicate MM was/is a dunce/nutcase/wanker was sufficient, and excusable. ;) 8-) :lol:

MM the same penalty as handed to Zarco,.......or Simoncelli........or at the very least, points deducted to be 2 to 5 less than Luthi managed to secure by finishing.


That's the problem with race control/direction though , isn't it.

A rule for one, varying all the time, and not for others.

If you're there to police things, then police without fear or favour.

you can't split hairs on that stuff.
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Re: Qatar - Off-track Stuff

Postby Gustav O on Mon Apr 09, 2012 9:29 am

Oscar wrote:So, I guess we can expect the stinging denunciation of Luthi to commence once the righteous indignation of the usual protagonists has passed from incandescence into the limpid pools of eternal damnation?

Unlike Stoner Luthi has not on several occasions kicked at, waved at or in other ways told other rider he is wight and they are wrong on- or off-track when someone does a mistake. ;)
The slap, not harder than Stoners Punch, was also on the slow down lap and not during QP. A lot of differences imho.
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Re: Qatar - Off-track Stuff

Postby Tourn46 on Mon Apr 09, 2012 9:45 am

Absolutely Oscar, no rider has any right whatsoever to demonstrate anger via physical means when they are on the bikes... totally out of order and deserves the same criticism that Stoner got.

Unfortunately, Luthi is in Moto2, he is not exactly someone who's right in the media attention so it will not be reported or discussed in the same manner as Stoner... that my friend you just have to deal with.
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Re: Qatar - Off-track Stuff

Postby Oscar on Mon Apr 09, 2012 10:44 am

Gustav O wrote:Unlike Stoner Luthi has not on several occasions kicked at, waved at or in other ways told other rider he is wight and they are wrong on- or off-track when someone does a mistake. ;)
The slap, not harder than Stoners Punch, was also on the slow down lap and not during QP. A lot of differences imho.


Ah, so it's the identity of the slapper, not the principle, that's the key to the issue.

Just wanted to check on that.
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Re: Qatar - Off-track Stuff

Postby Gustav O on Mon Apr 09, 2012 11:03 am

Oscar wrote:
Ah, so it's the identity of the slapper, not the principle, that's the key to the issue.

Just wanted to check on that.

It of course does play a part in it, and I had a big ;) at the end as well. Biggest difference I believe is that it was on the cool down lap and not during "action".
but we have changed race direction from last year so that plays a part as well imo.
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Re: Qatar - Off-track Stuff

Postby Rossifumi on Mon Apr 09, 2012 11:25 am

Oscar wrote:
Gustav O wrote:Unlike Stoner Luthi has not on several occasions kicked at, waved at or in other ways told other rider he is wight and they are wrong on- or off-track when someone does a mistake. ;)
The slap, not harder than Stoners Punch, was also on the slow down lap and not during QP. A lot of differences imho.


Ah, so it's the identity of the slapper, not the principle, that's the key to the issue.

Just wanted to check on that.

the difference is there haven't been armies of Luthi fans trying to justify his actions and explain why it was the right thing to do
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Re: Qatar - Off-track Stuff

Postby Oscar on Mon Apr 09, 2012 11:42 am

Contextual as well as identity-driven? Now I am confused. I guess that it's a bit like justice - principle doesn't apply if there's a higher cause to be served.
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