Anthony Gobert keert terug!

Anthony Gobert will contest the Linfox Australian Superbike Championship, kicking off a season long campaign in the domestic championship. He will race a Honda CBR 1000RR Fireblade under the Redwing Honda colours - a Honda dealer from Heidelberg in Melbourne that also distributes Micron exhausts in Australia. This union, returns Gobert to Honda where his stop-start road race career began.

It’s a major coup for the Phillip Island race and fans to the circuit will be keen to see the boy from Bringelly go. In 2000, he thrilled the island crowd when he won the world superbike round on a saturated track. Riding an underpowered and temperamental Bimota, he led from the start and took the win by a massive 30 seconds from defending champion Carl Fogarty.

This April, he will contest the three national superbike races.  This time at Phillip Island it won’t be Carl Fogarty on his back, but the leading young guns of the Australian scene including defending champion Adam Fergusson, the immensely talented Josh Brookes and the Yamaha duo of Shannon Johnson and Daniel Stauffer.

Gobert’s return will be a surprise to many who thought he was on the scrapheap, his numerous off track misdemeanours eventually overshadowing his riding prowess.

His latest was in April last year when he was sacked from the American AMA Superbike Championship.

“I know I’ve said it many times before and people will be wondering how long I go before something else happens but truly I know this is my last chance,” Gobert explained. “They reckon a cat has nine lives and I think I must be up to about number 10 in my career so far.

“I’ve been pretty depressed in the last few months as I really didn’t think I would get another ride. I’m 30 years old now and in the last 12 months I’ve haven’t had a job so I’ve had a lot of time to think. Over that time I’ve matured a lot and I realise I have the best job in the world and have been silly to nearly throw it all away.”

de kleurrijkste persoon dacht het niet....

Ik ken hem verder niet..maar ben wel nieuwsgierig wie JIJ dan de kleurrijkste vindt

Tja dat weet ik niet, maar ik heb veel over Gobert gelezen en gehoord en het was niet bepaald een lieverdje en had ook geen vriendelijk karakter. Sympathie ontbrak ook en de resultaten bleven uit. Ten slotte ook nog dat hele drugsgebeuren. Nee, dan kan ik wel 30 kleurrijkere personen op gaan noemen

Gobert - a phenomenal talent but utter headcase - has already been fired by AMA Ducati teams twice, the Suzuki GP team, the MuZ GP team, and had acrimonious walk-outs from Honda Australia, the Kawasaki World Superbike squad, and the AMA Yamaha team.

Gobert has no one to blame but himself. His continually moronic, arrogant behaviour has meant that his results have never matched the drivel that comes out of his mouth. Who could forget his juvenile ramblings in 1997, claiming that world champ Mik Doohan was "scared" of him? (Doohan won all but 3 races that year. Gobert could not manage a single top-5 finish). Yet every year his same tired supporters claim that this time Goey is "coming back hard". The hype begins again, Goey tells everyone he's gonna kick ass, he starts well, then begins to fuck up and blames everyone but himself.

It's time teams stopped employing this moron and give some fresh talent a chance. Gobert has blown it. Let him suffer for it.

Is er een firma ergens op de wereld die nog een raceoverall kan maken voor dit uitgezakte logge lichaam ?  

Tja, ik weet niet meer voor welk team Gobert toen teste, maar een anecdote van Randy Mamola staat me nog wel bij. Vrij vertaald kwam het hierop neer :

Is er een firma ergens op de wereld die nog een raceoverall kan maken voor dit uitgezakte logge lichaam ?