here i am, thinking someone like rossi would make a stand for something he believes in… at least he isn’t personally sponsored by big tobacco. maybe the difference in heart rates (as revealed in “faster”) between biaggi and rossi shows what personal knowledge of tobacco will do to an elite athlete. or maybe rossi got screwed. I hope that’s the case. (c’mon yamaha, PLEASE give him a reason to jump to ducati and show everyone else up again. Stage one has already been initiated, now that gibernau has the ducati ride. all we need for a repeat of his last move is for gibernau to claim that the ducati can’t win, and moan about what he could do when given a yamaha)

that reminds me, what happened to max, anyways? ducati or suzuki for WSB maybe?