"BOOM!!!"
That's the sound of an American bombshell dropping into the predominantly European World Superbike paddock. Anyone need a quick reminder about who invented Superbike racing...?
Okay, I admit that I'm English, but I'm never going back and the USA is my home, so I'm just going to go ahead and be pleased for Ben Elbowz Spies.
Not convinced he can do well yet? Dare I throw out the names Merkel, Polen, Russell, Kocinski and Edwards? I do dare.
What a pair of races that was. Elbowz, the Sultan of Slide, the Pocket Rocket, Baldy Laconi, Jakub (can I buy a vowel?) Smrz and Fabrizio all looked rather great. Corser, Xaus, Sykes, Kiyonari, Nakano, Byrne and Checa looked a bit rubbish. Biaggi, Neukirchner, Kagayama and Rea ran hot and cold. The season continues to look ace.
And riddle me this: you have two smaller European manufacturers coming into the series after either a long break or for the first time, with brand new, never-raced bikes and they show rather well. Then you have Kawasaki, who have been in WSBK for years, who might have been better off providing their riders with scooters. What the hell is going on?
Team Green, you are the laughing stock of the bike racing world. Even when you try to quit a series you can't do that properly. You suck.
Sunday, March 01, 2009
Take that, Europe
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2 comments:
BOOM indeed! Couldn't agree more on all points.....I can't help but think that Mat Mladin is somewhere laughing his bum off.
Damn glad to see that you're back.
It's a real change having a race-winning Texan in WSBK who actually shuts up from time to time!
I'm hugely impressed by Spies. You guys on the wrong side of the Atlantic weren't joking when you told us how god he is.
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