Or get a job servicing brakes... I dunno.
I watched it several times and each time I
simply shook my head.
The crazy thing is that had he overdone the
squeeze he could have locked Manzi’s bike up
and caused a tipping slide which would likely
have taken him out as well.
Which I suppose to a degree would be justice,
but then Manzi’s bike would have been left
damaged, as would he.
For no reason at all.
There was talk about the pair exchanging close
glances and that there was some bad blood
brewing but hey, limits are limits and you just
don’t do that.
I’m fearful some kid pedalling to school on his
bike might be curious to see what happens if he
tries it on the quiet little kid he is approaching.
Simply because he saw that bloke on TV do it
in that Motor GT race (he’ll have no idea) and it
looked amazing.
Made the other bike really wobble and would
have given the rider a real fright.
I sincerely hope I’m wrong and that any kid
who saw the incident isn’t brain gene-lacking
SERIE S
enough to give it a shot on some unsuspecting
schoolmate. But you never know.
Because if a professional Moto2 GP rider
can be so brain-fade prone then it has to be
assumed some impressionable and slightly
edgy 11-year old has the potential to be
capable of giving it a go.
Now it has to be said that what happened has
not (sort of) happened before.
Way back, I think it would have been the 70s,
I recall one very competitive and well-known
chap creating a bit of a stir by reaching over
and hitting the kill button on a race-mate’s bike
as they tore down a straight.
It was not however a world championship race
and they knew each other pretty well I think,
and while the stewards were unimpressed it
sort of passed by.
I guess the bottom line is, don’t interfere with
a competitor’s racing iron.
Let him or her work the controls and you work
yours.
And if there’s an issue to be sorted you do it
in pitlane... and just make sure there are no
cameras around.
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