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“Casey is a pretty complete rider, he’s good in all conditions and we always knew he could ride in the rain conditions. The Ducati has proved that the blinding speed it has in the dry isn’t handicap in the rain, as we have seen with some engine characters in previous years. “So we would find it extremely difficult to find a weakness in Casey and Ducati. The next race is Italy and you’ve got an Italian company in Italy and you’ve got an Italian rider in Italy, so both sides will be going hard,” said Burgess. Burgess also said it was ironic that he was fighting to beat an Australian rider with Italian mechanics, while Rossi is fighting Stoner with largely Australian mechanics. “I suppose it is, but they would be asking the same question in the Ducati garage because Casey has Italian mechanics and here we have Australian mechanics for an Italian rider. It won’t change anything; Casey is doing a great job,” he added.

Jeremy Burgess on Casey Stoner in May 2007

#heretic tag #hm.#the nationality thing is like. it does keep coming up #the crew chief thing as a bit of an early connection between casey and valentino. a certain fondness of jb for his countryman #and also back in the day valentino was like... calling australia his second home race especially when he was winning titles there #and ironically he also obviously had the britain link which meant he claimed a special connection to what really should've been casey land #and obviously in the case of britain that was particularly noticeable because they like... hated casey there #casey's always talking about the nationality thing. about how the non europeans are more honest and less adversarial etc #which obviously makes the way the interpersonal relationship with jb fell apart kinda interesting #jb did not embody this vision of non-europeanism whatsoever #and was generally perfectly willing to be valentino's proxy in getting nasty towards rivals. another way of getting the party line out #//#brr brr #also the ducati factor helped ensure casey really WAS getting the worst reception in england and not in italy #he's also disillusioned with italians by 2010 but he frames it more around ducati than italian fans #and how the japanese approach is overly vilified in the paddock or something #whereas when his criticisms are directed more explicitly at valentino he uses the label of 'european' and not 'italian'

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