F1 or MotoGP, which takes more skill?

Friday, February 17th, 2006 at 9:15 am by rhino

Apparently, F1 car driver Fernando Alonso thinks he’s pretty hot feces. He made the typical arrogant, ignorant and “no grasp of reality” claim that he could podium on a MotoGP bike “with a bit of practice”. How ludicrous!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/motorsport/formula_one/4722304.stm

If Alonso had limited his comments to car racing and Rossi’s fairly successful (especially for a novice) test of the Ferrari F1 car, all could be forgiven. But to suggest he could pilot a motorcycle well enough to, not just be fast, but podium in MotoGP, shows just how out of touch some of these guys are.

This is typical schoolyard one-upsmanship. Rossi HASN’T been saying he’s even going to F1, much less that he would mop the floor with the current drivers. Why Alonso felt it necessary to say nah, nah, nahnah, nah to Rossi is an indication of what kind of professional he really is.

Sounds like Alonso might be a bit worried about his potential future rival.
Rossi should call his bluff!

4 Comments

Lets just suggest to dear M. Alonso to get on a GP bike race start and see if he gets around the first curve….I honnestly doubt it! And even in case he gets around the first corner considering the level of knowledge, training and magic GP guys can create ….ah welll lets no even go on … let him drive his F1, which he does well!
I am not too bad at organising Motorcycle Tours but will never design a bike neither say I can do it as well as M. Tamburini!

Comment by Unicorn | February 17th, 2006 11:25 am | Permalink

what i want to say is:
Alonso, who do you think you are? Almost everybody in this planet knows that you are cool last year all because you are lucky. And how rediculious he always show off his god damn finger after he won a race, but he don’t know how to show after 5; since he don’t know how to use one hand to express the number larger than 5. hahahahahah!
Poor alonso, please say something with some proof. just go to gp field to test. Rossi is cool, at least he is trying to do something.

Comment by jack_tianfan | February 18th, 2006 1:15 am | Permalink

There is a simple answer to Mr. Alonso’s bragging. Suit him up in a set of leathers and let him do a few laps with Rossi. We’ve seen the reverse and the results were pretty impressive. I’d bet money that Fernando would embarass himself. Sadly, we’ll never know

Comment by Michael in Los Angeles | February 21st, 2006 11:36 am | Permalink

I read a different quote from Alonso today on the 2WF site. It seems he may be backing off from his original statement by claiming if he had 3 years to practice, he might be able to get within 1 second of the winning lap times. So he’s added a great deal of time and reduced his finishing position claim.

My take: unless you grow up riding bikes, there’s no way you’ll EVER be competitive as more than a club racer. Most top motorcycle racers get on a bike about the time they learn how to walk. The late starters are two-wheeling by 10 -12 years old. And they usually come from moto-families.

Alonso is just full of a lot of hot air. I just wish someone could force him to back up his statements.

Comment by rhino | February 21st, 2006 11:55 am | Permalink

Leave a Reply

XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>

Live Comment Preview

Comment by Somebody

Powered by WordPress 2.3.1    Rendered in 15 queries and 0.391 seconds.    CleanBreeze Theme   
   

Bad Behavior has blocked 2135 access attempts in the last 7 days.