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Disappointment of the year
A road racing theme, from the local all the way to the MotoGP title, where Casey Stoner was unable to cobble together a fairytale finishMark Fattore – Bikesales Network editor
The Australian Superbike Championship. The once proud showcase is a shadow of its former self, with little buzz, low on personality, poor competitor numbers, and promoted in fits and starts – the antitheses of what an elite championship should be. And it’s not all about a lack of funds. Let’s start to try and live up to the rhetoric, otherwise it will keep withering on the vine.
Rod Chapman – Bikesales Network contributor
Casey Stoner – not for retiring (see my comments on Bike Person of the Year for more on that), but for not taking out the title in his final MotoGP campaign. I know, he still did the business at Phillip Island (plaudits to West and Sissis, too), but it was shame that injury shot Stoner’s hopes of the ultimate fairy-tale finale.
Ben Spies. We’d only just got to pronounce his name properly (sounds like peas, not pies) and the lanky American falls off his Yamaha and off the radar. On the way back over to the WSB paddock, he trips over a Ducati and chooses to say there. Hello, Ben, what part of career-ender doesn’t translate?
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