Bernie and Sir Jackie think Schumi is past it! MotoGP is more and more nervous!
7-14-2010
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moto123.com
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F1 Grand Poobah Bernie Ecclestone, three-time F1 World Champion and leading pundit Sir Jackie Stewart and Eddie Jordan, former F1 team owner, have all recently declared that F1’s leading personality Michael Schumacher may not be back next year, because of poor results, a bad car, lack of interest or a combination thereof.
This does not augur well for the F1 show that absolutely needs a leading star, as the current crop of fast men lack the persona to rise above the madding crowd and become world figures.
Meanwhile, MotoGP has just such a person, Valentino Rossi, who has established a dominant position in the sport, with world-wide recognition. This is why all the MotoGP stakeholders (Manufacturers, teams, sponsors, organisers, the public) hope that he will indeed recover from his injuries and stay on bikes for another few years, as they try to find the next leading light.
The battle lines are thus drawn, with Bernie willing to put Mega bucks into getting Vale to park his butt into an F1 bucket seat for 2011 and learn the craft for a season or two, before joining Ferrari and making the world right again.
Meanwhile, MotoGP organizers Dorna are whispering big numbers into Vale’s ear to get him to stay at Yamaha, who wanted him to stay as of a month ago, or switch to Ducati to revive their program and all of Italy at the same time. After all, they did screw the pooch in the recent World Cup, and national morale is lower than a gopher’s basement.
May the richest win!
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