Michel Fabrizio isn’t new to these type of passes that take out other riders, the Roman is often over enthusiastic and once and awhile turns his brain off. This time it was Ben Spies who was leading race 1, trying to catch up on points leader Noriyuki Haga, getting clipped by Fabrizio.

Last year he took out Max Biaggi twice, once at Misano and then in Portimao that resulted in a verbal standoff between Fabrizio’s manager, Pierfrancesco Chili and Max Biaggi, that later cost Chili’s job as a WSBK commentator on Italian TV La7.

Fabrizio in his garage before race 2 displayed a little note to the cameras apologizing for the incident, it read :
“I’m realy sorry. I love you Ben”.

I swear Fabrizio did write “really” with only one l.

Continue reading: Michel Fabrizio wipes out Ben Spies at Brno

Remember the same wiggle that Mladin and Spies did at Road Atlanta? How about simultaneous highsides like what happened to Mick Doohan and Pierfrancesco Chili during the German GP at the Nürburgring circuit in 1990?

Continue reading: Simultaneous Highsides

The 1989 Nations Grand Prix was one of the strangest and most ludicrous races of that season. It took place at the Misano race track where the riders had already expressed their worries about this particular track surface, considering it too slippery and even dangerous in wet conditions.

Thirty-three riders were on the grid at the start of the race, but after several laps it started raining and Kevin Schwantz who was in the lead, held up his hand and the race was flagged with the riders heading back to their garges supposedly to change to rain tires.

The riders called a meeting and decided they wanted a practice session before re-starting in the wet, but the request was refused by the race organizers and the top riders decided to boycott the race.

Continue reading: 1989 Misano GP Boycott

Troy Bayliss may have won both races in Portimao and finished his career on a high, but it was Ducati’s Sterilgarda’s rider Max Biaggi and Pierfrancesco “Frankie” Chili who stole the show for Italian fans by getting into an argument after Race 2.

Chili, a former superbike rider now makes his living by doing the WSBK commentary for the Italian network LA7 and is also Ducati’s Xerox rider Michel Fabrizio’s personal manager.

What was the argument about? Biaggi was still clearly upset with Fabrizio’s riding error that took him out of race 1 on the first lap and the Roman Emperor known for his prickly character was even more upset and angry with Chili’s way of describing the incident.

Continue reading: Biaggi vs Chili