Sport and privatediverjefff,
The British GP was as I said the full circus.
Did you see the huge fiasco at the start? Or did the media TV crews edit that bit out?
A surreal situation based on a ridiculous decision to start the race as a dry race. What on earth for? The whole, sky was a grey out and it was raining heavily on the grid
before the race started. Now although this is an international race series, anyone who knows our weather knows that rain was in for the duration.
We have grown accustomed to our weather. As a biker you become an expert at figuring out if its going to be dry or stay dry to bother getting your pristine bike out!
As soon as the whole race had been restarted on wet tyres it became an endurance race, last man standing almost? Well it was
Now in that situation and if I was going to put money on anyone winning it would be Rossi and not just because I am a fan.
Rossi knows the British weather and how saturating heavy rain is on tarmac. He even lived here for a few years and he's ridden the TT circuit.
Guys, when it rains here its truly biblical ! I can't use the kind of language we use to describe it on the forum
So Rossi is an old hand at our crap weather on the track.
The new boy not so much so because he cant, he has'nt been around long enough.
So Rossi played a blinder to get out in front and Marky of course was right there on his ass.
But Rossi played a tactically perfect line in each bend at at a high enough speed, but safe enough speed.
Rossi knew that Marky would have to go over and beyond the safety margin to get past him and therefore run the risk of binning it.
Thats my personal assumption of Rossi tactics and from my osbervation. He rode a perfect lap and line each lap and just waited.
Marky played along for a few laps keeping a close distance but not pushing it, to observe Rossi's lines, like they do.
But we actually saw the moment when Marky decided to change tactics and push it and started to push on Rossi.
After 2 laps of pushing it Marky went for the move and that was it. Game over.
In that position Rossi was I believe unbeatable and also infront of probably one of his most loved fan bases.
Rossi knows his fan base here is massive !!!!
It was Rossi's first win at Silverstone.
The poor weather didn't put a damper on the racing or the atmosphere or the passion.
The only consolation for anyone who slid off, is that plenty did in all three races. Moto3 especially.
We had quite a collection of race bikes up against the fence at one stage.
