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rocktboy
Thu Jan 13th, 2005, 05:55 PM
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MotoGP News 2004 Awards
Who are the winners and losers?
(05/01/2005)

2004, in the style of Aprilia, has finally left us never to return. This means that MotoGP News can now officially reveal the winners and losers of 2004 as voted for by you.



Best Rider: Valentino Rossi (85%)

Runners up:-
Nakano (7%)
McWilliams (3%)

Never really in doubt this one. The mighty spaghetti sucker did what Biaggi couldn't and what Doohan dare not try - he won the championship on a Yamaha. An unbelievable feat when you consider how crap the Yamaha was before 2004. A true winner.
In a similar way you also appreciated Super Shinya's efforts in converting the rubbish Kwaka bike into a rubbish Kwaka bike with a decent rider. Nice work by the ladyboy.




Worst Rider: Kurtis Roberts (28%)

Runners up:-
Hodgson (23%)
Hayden (18%)

Some riders burst into MotoGP with an explosion of talent and energy. Others trickle in like a dog urinating on a moss coated lamppost. And then we have poor Kurtis. Despite being a full time rider our favourite facially-challenged American managed to finish last in the championship with one point. Spent a majority of the season at home watching Jerry Springer and writing articles about how he would be in the top five if he was on a Honda. Shame.
Britain's favourite export Neil Hodgson stood quivering in second place surrounded by Americans…like 2005.




Most overrated rider: Nicky Hayden (49%)

Runners up:-
Edwards (10%)
Barros (8%)

When will everyone stop telling us how good Nicky Hayden will be? For two seasons now we've had to suffer the likes of Mamola and Doohan forcing their claims that the inbred Kentucky kid will be world champion. Seems like everyone is getting a bit fed up of this now. Two seasons on the very best bike and a small handful of third places to show for it. C'mon, change the record.




Clown of the year: Marco Melandri (24%)

Runners up:-
Gibernau (15%)
Biaggi (11%)

He came, he dressed up, he fell off. Marco's flamboyant off-track antics coupled with his woeful on-track abilities means he can easily claim to be the 2004 supreme clown. His greatest mirthful flop was when he dressed up as Spiderman so people remembered he was still racing…and then fell off…on the straight. Not so superhero. Melendri's excellent race retirement after getting something in his eye yet strengthens his title more.
Gibernau's comical throwing away of the championship and then sulking about it earned him a well deserved second place…something he's used to now.




Rookie of the year: Ruben Xaus (85%)

Runners up:-
Byrne (14%)
Ku. Roberts (1%)

Not a lot to chose from here so Ruben stormed to an easy victory. But let's take nothing away from the lanky bull-beater as his fine podium finish in Qatar showed the world that he, unlike unnamed other D'Antin riders, deserved to be on the grid. It also made the factory Ducati team look rather stupid. Result.




Worst rookie of the year: Kurtis Roberts (88%)

Runners up:-
Byrne (6%)
Xaus (6%)

It's another award for America's parked-car-chaser. As Neil Hodgson wasn't classed as a rookie Kurtis had no real competition and easily claimed this award. Finishing behind every single rider (including Youichi 'two-foot' Ui on the WCM who only had a handful of races) is no easy task. But Kurtis was up to the job.




Biggest poof: Neil Hodgson (35%)

Runners up:-
Junior (20%)
Biaggi (15%)

When the going gets tough Neil gets going…to an easier championship. The 2003 WSB champion came to MotoGP claiming he had a three year plan that would see him crowned as world champion. Then it went sour. Poor results and being trounced by his team mate Xaus left the Briton in a massive sulk claiming that he 'couldn't wait to get out of MotoGP'. A true champion's motivation? You decide.




Best bike: Honda RCV (70%)

Runners up:-
Yamaha (20%)
Kawasaki (1%)

Was the Honda the best bike? Of course it bloody was. By a long shot. Some folk claim that because Rossi won the championship the Yam was superior. Just check on how well the other mid-field Yam riders did in comparison to the average Honda riders. The fact that HRC had the better bike yet lost the championship made Rossi's title all the better. Horrah!




Worst bike: WCM (58%)

Runners up:-
Proton (25%)
Aprilia (20%)

Okay so the WCM was easily the worst bike. A classic example of how a superbike would fair in MotoGP. But in a way you've got to respect WCM for entering a team on a yearly budget of roughly $23. Less than half the Proton budget. So yeah they were crap, but we like 'em!




Most punchable rider: Max Biaggi (21%)

Runners up:-
Gibernau (18%)
Junior (14%)

With his custard colour scheme, moaning vocals and kick-me-quick beard Max yet again emerges as your most punchable rider. But times are a changing as Bob 'also quite punchable' Dylan once claimed before he realised it was just his watch playing up. A couple of seasons ago the Roman Empress would have won this vote with a landslide victory but now we see the ever stoic Junior and the sulky Gibernau stealing his glory. Is this the end of Max's unpopular reign? Is Rome about to fall?




Most boring form of motorsport: Formula One (42%)

Runners up:-
Nascar (41%)
Drag racing (15%)

Unlike the real thing this vote was a close call with the ever dull Formula One just taking the honours. Many of you hated the way Schumacher passed his opponents through the pits and won the race by around six weeks. Many of you hated how Schumacher had the championship mathematically won after two rounds. Many of you hated how there wasn't any passing. And many of you hated Eddie Jordan. What you'll hate even more is that in 2005 the season has been extended to include yet more high speed, cigarette billboard parades.
But who could forget Nascar? Everyone. It's a classic formula: Take around 50 identical cars (laughably with different manufacture's badges on them) and drive them around in a circle for about eight hours. If anything happens then bring out the yellow flags and run the car's around at snails-pace for a few thousand laps until the whole surrounding district has been sterilised. Ace. Nascar does have one upside though - the amusingly named Dick Trickle.





Ex-rider you'd most like to see attacked by an osprey: Carl Fogarty (66%)

Runners up:-
Mamola (17%)
Doohan (15%)

And who would argue? When he's not telling us how great he was and how he could have beaten Mick Doohan he's writing books about how great he was and how he could have beaten Doohan. Don't expect a barrage of books about running a successful superbike team in the near future though.





Best track: Philip Island (45%)

Runners up:-
Assen (17%)
Mugello (15%)

The Philip Island track has it all - great location, great track design and great scenery. Even the mass numbers of drunken, mullet-owning Australians that congregate to drink around trackside can't dampen the love for this superb facility. Possibly the finest circuit on earth, after Oliver's Mount, Scarborough, UK.





Worst track: Qatar (48%)

Runners up:-
Donington Park (13%)
Le Mans (10%)

I know let's build a track in a such a ridiculous location that no normal person would ever be able to get there. Let's also build it in one of the hottest places on earth. And let's build it in the middle of a desert so that sand is constantly blown onto the circuit and get Randy Mamola to officially open it. So many mistakes. So much money wasted. The sad fact is that with the money used to build this track a really awesome track (possibly opened by a world champion) could have built somewhere better.
Let's not forget our old chum Donny though. Now who doesn't sit back and remember the 11 hour queues to get out with amusement?




Best crash: Shinya Nakano (45%)

Runners up:-
Abe and Melandri symmetry (27%)
Capirossi's anti-American attack (14%)

Nakano's 200 mph crash is impossible for normal people to relate to. Imagine being driven in a car at 100 mph and jumping out in your biking gear. Sounds shocking. Now imaging doing that twice as fast. Unreal.
Luckily for everyone Shinya lived to tell the tale with the unmovable brown stain on his underwear the only permanent reminder to his horrifying crash. Amazingly Shinya dusted himself down and raced a week later - a leaf definitely not out of the KRJR book of racing.




Funniest moment: Rossi sweeping the track

Runners up:-
MotoGP News
Melandri's Spiderman spill.

It was a classic Rossi gag. After being accused and convicted of cheating by the Sete and his evil brigade the week before in Qatar for illegally cleaning his grid position Rossi stormed to victory in Sepang. On his victory lap he found a sweeping brush and mocked his accusers by brushing the track in front of the media. Shame the broom head fell off. Classic stuff non-the-less.




Hardest rider: Jeremy McWilliams (35%)

Runners up:-
Troy Bayliss (17%)
Valentino Rossi (13%)

Jeremy McWilliams is one hard bastard. Despite being older than all the MotoGP, 250 and 125 riders put together he still continues to race and crash. A few dozen broken bones? Hospital for the likes of you and I but a mere inconvenience for Jezza. Don't really think he's hard? Nip down to Belfast and knock over his Guinness - we'll read about you.
Troy Bayliss comes in a fine second as by being Australian he's not unaquated to idea of solving problems through violence. However Mr Rossi is a surprise. Despite often being called 'that spindly Italian poof' it seems though you reckon he's hard.




Randy's best bigged up rider: Nicky Hayden (49%)

Runner's up:-
KRJR (24%)
Edwards (15%)

If only young Nicky was nearly as good as his hype.




Worse haircut: Sete Gibernau (31%)

Runners up:-
Hayden (28%)
Rossi (15%)

Long, flowing, golden locks - why would anyone not like Sete's hair? Is it because it makes him look like a girly, greasy sack of lamb? We just don't know. Whatever the reason it needs sorting. But the good news is that this award now means Gibernau has won something. Roll on 2005.




Biggest none motorcycling ejit: George Bush (42%)

Runners up:-
Michael Schumacher (20%)
Robbie Williams (8%)

The poll says it all really. Take the most powerful job on earth and give it to a partly-trained chimp. That sounds like a great idea. Holocaust anyone?

It's also worth noting that there has never been to date any poll in which Bush, Schumacher and Williams have all being in the top three. A true mixed bag.




Best MotoGP website: MotoGP News (100%)

Runners up:-
None

It was our first full year and, unlike Hodgson, we've destroyed the opposition. We all just wonder when MotoGP News will become the official MotoGP website.

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