Stoner...what a plonker !
Spies is going to be a handfull next year and Edwards made me laugh going running to Spies after saving his 5th place for him in the championship.

The bit with JT was quite emotional and I'm not much of a JT fan Was nice when his crew encouraged everyone to cheer.

Spies will be good next year. Can see him on the podium by the first half of the season.

Has it been confirmed that the Ducati crash was rider error then?

I'm not a fan of Casey though I don't dislike him but I had to laugh at the lengths to which his team manager went to say it wasn't his fault. Nothing wrong with the bike, nothing wrong with the tyres, he chose to go for a faster warmup lap and got it badly wrong. What a way to end the season!

It was a great onboard shot though.

Screwd.

In light of Tomcats post, I might reconsider being quite so dismissive of CS. If that's true then someone somewhere in CS team has pulled the plug on his tyre warmers? ...but what was that waffle about saving fuel on the warmup lap being part of the strategy? Sounded decidedly "made up on the spot" to me. Hopefully the truth will out.

Screwd.

Originally Posted by Wreckless Rat

TC comments are a load of bollox imho. He just can't bare the thought of CS making a fuck up.

Sounded to me like they were going around the houses to not just say he fucked up on cold tyres...

A far more reasonable explanation than the bollox, CS did seem to be leaning the bike way over compared to the other riders on the warm up lap.

'Grid strategy' blamed for Stoner warm-up lap disaster | MotoGP News | Nov 2009 | Crash.Net

Originally Posted by Wreckless Rat

As said.... sounds like bollox to me. What they were trying to say, without risking upsetting CS (who is known to be a bit of a touchy/delicate little flower) is that he highsided on cold tyres.

What is this super strategy......send him out on super cold tyres? How does that work then?

Was part of the strategy to turn off the traction control for the warm up as well?

From my perspective TC talks a lot of sense when it comes to racing, so I remain open to Ducati somehow masterminding this fuckup. The Ducati "excuse" was so vague and lame it was (on the face of it) really bollocks, maybe there's a double bluff going on there Anyhow, I reserve judgement until I see how on earth running cold tyres and/or saving fuel on the warmup lap makes a big enough difference to even be detectable in a thirty lap race.

I smell a rat though, Casey would fall even lower in my estimation if this all pans out to be face saving spin.

Screwd.