Moto GP silly season: Jarvis: Yamaha won't enter bidding war over Lorenzo!

[Wolfman]

More silly season stuff.....

Jarvis: Yamaha won't enter bidding war over Lorenzo | MotoGP News | May 2010 | Crash.Net

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[Disco]

Are they mad?

Him & Spies (stop falling off it man) are the guys on their payroll who should be handed blank cheques.

 

[Kazza]

I think if it came down to the crunch, they'd pretty much pay Lorenzo what he wanted. They'd be crazy to let someone like him go.

Mind you, Honda let Rossi go due to the head honchos at Honda being so pig-headed. They haven't won too many championships since he left. They used to dominate.

 

[GConn]

As much as I'd like to see them both at Yamaha for 2011, having two top tier riders in the same team causes problems. Factory teams tend to focus their efforts towards one of the riders. This is not something new, and happens to most of the motor sports. Remember M. Schumacher and Barichello/Irvine/Massa for example? Team pretended that they were equal, but M. Schumacher was more equal than his team-mates.

Plus I agree with him that these negotiations so early in the season may not prove healthy for the sport. It seems to me that it already affected a couple of riders, for example Stoner.

 

[Wavex]

Interesting...

Did you see that one?

Marco Melandri has an interesting post on his blog this weekend about Jorge Lorenzo’s Le Mans victory celebration. In case you missed it, after the race Lorenzo seated himself in a lawn chair with a bag of popcorn and soda right smack in front of one of the giant televisions that broadcast the race to the crowd. Considering the last race Lorenzo won, he jumped into a pond, this celebration was a bit more demur, but as Melandri points out there may be more than meets the eye on this celebration.

Riding past the celebration, Marco Melandri noticed one thing that struck him as odd: the chair that Lorenzo was sitting in was a bright fluorescent yellow. To the Italian rider, this could only mean that the celebration was a reference to Valentino Rossi, who as any true MotoGP fan will know, considers fluorescent yellow to be a special color, and uses it on his bike, number plate, and leathers.

Similar to how Kruschev and Kennedy “talked” to each other through the Cuban Missile Crisis, Melandri says Lorenzo is sending a message to Rossi through this celebration. Sitting on Rossi’s “thrown”, Lorenzo is pronouncing himself as the new king of MotoGP, perhaps even suggesting that he has already taken Rossi’s seat at Fiat-Yamaha as the #1 rider on the team. Lorenzo currently leads the MotoGP Championship, and is nine points ahead of Rossi.

Whether Melandri is right or wrong in his assessment to the post-race celebration at Le Mans by Lorenzo (it should be noted that Rossi basically invented the post-GP race gag celebration), it’s clear that Lorenzo is the rising star in the MotoGP paddock, while Rossi’s days are waning. There’s some debate as to whether Lorenzo is the personality that Ross was/is off the track, but there’s little doubt that the young Spaniard can ride. With silly season brewing up, and a lot of speculation surrounding where Rossi will land for 2011, it’s clear Lorenzo already has made up his mind on who should be getting the coveted lead-spot at Fiat-Yamaha.

 

[Disco]

Yamaha may have to change their tune if Jorge takes the title and Rossi doesn't come back as soon as expected.

As good, sorry great as Rossi is, even with a perfect recovery he may not be back to full race pace till this time next year.