and people scoffed at me about taking some tips from Formula 1 and actually have team orders. (not this board, but others).
did you really think yammy didn't have a plan going in? would edwards really just stick to Rossi? or would he slow the field down a bit and give his man some lead.
just imho, honda doesn't deserve a championship for such nonsense. while dani was ahead, he should've taken first from rossi, slow it down to let his man catch up. but noooooo..... dani had to try to win it himself because there are no team orders. what bs. even though i don't like rossi, i hope he wins it just to spite honda (didn't anyone see him smirking in the interview?).
now tony elias more than made it a good show. i remember him in 2003 (or was it 04) where he chased down like at 15 second lead at jerez and he clearly was smoking the field convincingly (was that porto he chased). clearly, if elias could just ride in the damn rain, he would had a good chance at the closer at phillip island to get the championship. but he wasn't.
>>edit - elias must've picked up something somewhere. 250gp riders don't back it in like that. he looked awesome. very balsy in the front straight to do that from top speed.
kudos for kjr. he should've taken out rossi to continue getting a honda engine. maybe he'll get a honda chassis next year if he did that. LOL
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