James Toseland: An Englishman to be proud of......

[anonymous-user]

Made it through the gravel trapto be crowned World Superbike Champion


Well done JT!

[LDNrevs]

AGREED! Let's get as many 'Englishman to be proud of' threads going as possible

[The Wiz]

If theres any justice he'll be Sports Personality of the year. Great stuff.

[Skyedriver]

Well Done JT
Despite my watching.
To be honest I have wondered how he has got where he is this year as every time I have watched he has been an also ran or a crasher.....
Was a bit worried that if I watched these races he would fail!!!!

[castrolcraig]

Skyedriver said:

Well Done JT
Despite my watching.
To be honest I have wondered how he has got where he is this year as every time I have watched he has been an also ran or a crasher.....
Was a bit worried that if I watched these races he would fail!!!!

have you been watching the same wsbk championship as everyone else??

8 race wins (more than anyone else)

9 other podiums (more than anyone else)

and only 2 dnfs!!!

1 was mechanical (donnington being 1)

and a bike widely ackowedged to be lagging behind the opposition.......

well done jt, well done.

although im of the opinion its the right time to move to motogp, its the wrong bike and certainly the wrong team.....remember ellison??


good luck jt, you will certainly need it......

[Leithen]

The Wiz said:

If theres any justice he'll be Sports Personality of the year. Great stuff.

Not only will there be no justice, if last years farce is repeated, his participation will be reduced to a bit part interview whilst seated as part of the audience, by some tt of a BBC presenter asking him if it hurts when he falls off......

[Incorrigible]

LDNrevs said:

AGREED! Let's get as many 'Englishman to be proud of' threads going as possible

We should have another 15 of them after beating the Aussies

If that inconsiderate bd Hamilton hadn'd dosed off would have been a perfect sporting weekend

[thunderbelmont]

And you turned to the sports pages of the daily papers to see....

Sod all.

Such is the mass media's interest in motorsport of any kind. Unless Bernie buys the page inches.

Altrincham under-12's draw nil-nil with Congleton, and it's major news in comparison.

Well done Master Toseland. Top banana. Now do it again next year, and again, and again, and maybe, just maybe, you might get a guest one-off appearance on BBC's Question of Sport....

[Killer2005]

castrolcraig said:

[although im of the opinion its the right time to move to motogp, its the wrong bike and certainly the wrong team.....remember ellison??

IIRC he said he'd only go to MotoGp if he had a decent ride and wasnt going to be in amongst the also rans. And yet he's gone to the "Satellite" Yamaha team. Granted I haven't been able to watch any races recently but unless he knows something we don't I dont see him doing much next season

[davyboy]

Part of the reason the Tech 3 yamaha has been so poor this year is the Dunlop tyres. The Dunlop dry tyres are useless.

When it was wet the bike was much further up the grid, and even led for a little during one race earlier in the year.

[LDNrevs]

Incorrigible said:

LDNrevs said:

AGREED! Let's get as many 'Englishman to be proud of' threads going as possible

We should have another 15 of them after beating the Aussies

If that inconsiderate bd Hamilton hadn'd dosed off would have been a perfect sporting weekend

So true !!!

[Skyedriver]

[quote=castrolcraig


have you been watching the same wsbk championship as everyone else??

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[/quote]

No but only saw some of the races and everyone I saw, made me think I was a jinx on him...