F1 Champ says he could podium in MotGP

[cbr806]

http://www.roadracingworld.com/news/article/?article=25036

Did anyone see this?  I'd love to see him run MotoGP.  Could be a new reality show.  Two top athletes exchange sports & see who does the best.  Really would be a great show.  I predict we see it in the future.

[cardzilla]

Just one more example of Alonso making an a$$ of himself.  I'm glad the guy came into F1 because it's been a while since I've had someone to hate.  He is a whiny little b!tch who thinks that cars should part like the red sea when he approaches.  Hopper could spot him a lap and probably still kick his a$$... what a tool.

[K3 Chris Onwiler]

Strap me into a CAR, and keep replacements coming as fast as I can destroy them, and I'd be absolutely fearless.  Perhaps Alonso hasn't considered that HIS BODY will absorb the consequenses of his every mistake.
You have to go back as far as the 70's to find an era in F1 where it took sheer balls to hang it out and win.  Back then cars ripped in half and exploded into massive fireballs, and a crew would retrieve the remains of the driver once everything cooled down.  Lauda, Hunt, Stewart and their peers were braver than brave to pilot those insane, flat-bottomed missiles.  Now F1 cars are so safe that it takes a freak occurance to get a driver seriously hurt, and the drivers know it.  An F1 driver would sh1t himself at the level of personal risk required to race a motorcycle.

[K3 Chris Onwiler]

As a corner worker, I watched Paul Tracy crash his Indy car in the kink at Road America during qualifying.  He ran wide at the exit and dropped a wheel off.  The car got sideways at 170 mph, caught traction, and shot straight across the track nose-first into a concrete wall at an undeminished speed.  I can't describe the violence of that crash.  It was simply beyond belief.
Tracy was injured.  Seems the G-Forces of the crash pulled so hard at his feet that he stretched the tendons in his knees, making it difficult for him to drive in the race the next day.
Man, that's as good as being immortal.  Give me that kind of protection and I wouldn't even know what fear was anymore.

[Super Dave]

Now F1 cars are so safe that it takes a freak occurance to get a driver seriously hurt, and the drivers know it.  An F1 driver would sh1t himself at the level of personal risk required to race a motorcycle.

Yeah, but I remember when GP bikes were things of anger.  Machines without traction control, lesser tire technology, and really only a small number of riders could maintain control to be at the front.  

Now, the whole grid is pretty tight, time wise, but only a small handfull can win.  That part hasn't changed.  

This Alonso guy is funny.  Rossi has been offered tests.  He hasn't.  Unless he wants to fund his own gig, he can STFU.   ;D

[jer271]

UH, Iam not really agreeing with what he said, but how do we know he doesnt ride quite considerably and he is just a real good street squid waiting to come out of his shell like some guys we race with ::) and since he has a F1 ride why bother with racing something else for a lot less $$$ unless rossi gets more money than say the likes of Tony Schumacher, I'd say he picked the right perfession. 9 times out of 10 unless your talking to a motorcycle racer they would say rossi who??? remember he said with practice he could be up there too,  most of these guys mean if they started and practice at age 14 like the other guy and did it long enough, they (with the right equipment) would be on top too.