#fwiw I still think it's not necessarily massive hypocrisy. you can draw the line somewhere between vale and marc levels of aggression

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Of course, when two riders engage in battle there's only one winner, and the loser is never happy. Valentino received many harsh words from Gibernau, Stoner, Lorenzo, Márquez and others, but the criticism never bothered him. "I expected Stoner to say I'm a fucking bastard, but he says it's scary to be on track with me," said Vale after he took out the Australian during the 2011 Spanish GP. "Why? Just because he lost the battle at Laguna and he still can't accept it. Laguna was an epic race. Did Mick Doohan call Wayne Gardner impolite after their epic battle at Phillip Island in 1990? No! Did Wayne Rainey call Kevin Schwantz a bastard at Suzuka in 1991? No - this is racing!" A few years later it was Vale who was scared of someone else. "I'm scared when I'm on the track with Márquez," he said after the Spaniard took him out during the 2018 Argentine GP. This, indeed, is racing. "Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play," wrote George Orwell, author of 1984 and Animal Farm. "It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting."

Mat Oxley's Valentino Rossi: All His Races

#valentino rossi #casey stoner #marc marquez #rosquez #// #cs27 #4693 #fwiw I still think it's not necessarily massive hypocrisy. you can draw the line somewhere between vale and marc levels of aggression #that being said it is funny that this parallel has made it into a published book that vale got as a present from oxley #also again important for the jerez 2011 thing - undoubtedly a banger line from casey but it wasn't something that massively bothered vale