Horsefaced loser Marco Melandri has given us our best glimpse yet of the strong motivational skills he carried throughout the 2008 season. The laughing stock Italian freely admitted on his personal blog that by June he was considering 'giving up' racing possibly for a career in flower arranging or pillow fluffing.
"His sticking coward attitude offends me down to my garlic infused shell" admitted one Frenchman whilst nervously checking for Germans "Giving up is no answer to any problem, whereas giving up and calling a strike whilst hiding behind some croissant boxes is the answer to all problems. If this isn't the truth then my name isn't Alain Prost."
Lucky for all Marco was able to dig deep into his shallow divot of courage and 'throw a deaf ear or two' to the sniggering and continue riding to the very last round - something that gave us MotoGP fans something to smile about in a season that was less entertaining than Dani Pedrosa reading a Dilbert cartoon in a monotone voice.
Not smiling, however, were the Italian layabout pipe benders at Ducati who were have reported to have paid Melandri a small fortune, enough to keep an average Italian village in tagliatelle for a month, for his all-too-crappy 2008 services.
Because of this Team Red were keen to see Melandri pack up his tissues and leave mid season so as to save them a few Lira but Melandri stayed strong soon founding that the sound of notes jingling in his Diesel jeans blocked out the sound jeering and continuous 'you're crap' comments. After a season for the amnesia drugs Melandri is said to have been delighted to move to Kawasaki - a team that sadly never looks out of place at the back of the grid.
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