Being at the cutting edge of MotoGP’s rumour mill is fraught with danger. One minute we’re providing you with the latest scoop and the next we’re fending off both of Bradley Smith’s fans with a sweeping brush who are desperate to get in and steal our Hobnobs.
Over the so-called ‘festive period’ we were hacked and suddenly the premier MotoGP portal became a gateway for some scumbags in India trying to scam you out of money. Worse still we’d lost all our content!
However, through hard work and a lot of shouting at people in a different country on the phone we managed to re-install the content and limp back into action. It takes more than that to keep us down…although probably not much more.
But who would do such a thing? And why would they chose to attack your favourite MotoGP website? Clearly there are some very sick people that no amount of vaccine can save.
Using our excellent finger pointing skills we’ve created a list of our top candidates.
Jorge Lorenzo
Lorenzo is as sneaky as sneaky comes. His slipperiest hour came in 2019 when he realised that the Honda was an un-rideable heap so pretended to retire from MotoGP so he could sly his way back into Yamaha. Sadly Coronavirus crushed those ideas.
Since then Jorge’s had very little to do other than sit at home with a face like a melting Hobbit and tell Cal Crutchlow that he’s a five times world champion via Twitter. But what’s his beef with us?
MotoGPNews has always been respectful to Jorge – like we have for all riders. Sure he might be a bit weird, have no friends and made himself a laughing stock at Honda – but we’re not the kind of website to ever mention that. So why us? Who knows with this crackpot.
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The KGB
We’re not quite sure why the crafty, turnip loving commies would do such a thing but they can never be counted out when underhand skulduggery is afoot.
When not hacking the White House or delivering nerve gas to Vladimir Putin’s Facebook friends who forgot to ‘like’ his last photo of him wrestling a brown bear most KGB agents spend their time doing horrible things just to ‘keep their eye in’.
So maybe Stalin’s boys were trying to bring down the very fabric of our sport by destroying the premier news outlet? More worryingly maybe they were planning on creating their own propaganda version: ԠФҬФGPИԐШS.ҪФԠ? Worse still maybe they’re thinking of creating their own Moto2 team where all the riders are on performance enhancing drugs like their Olympic athletes?
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Bradley Smith
When Brad won our 2018 Rider of Year award it was perhaps the highlight of his long and spectacularly nondescript career. One eye-witness who wasn’t there suggested to us that the sluggardly Oxford based rider ran around his one-bedroom flat screeching with delight in voice even more annoying than usual.
But nothing lasts forever. Except radiation poisoning. And Smith, given he’d already raised the bar to such a lofty position, has since suffered wavering achievements both on and off the track which has dropped him out of contention for winning the 2020 award.
With rumours that Tito Rabat could be a contender could it have been Bradley and his team of Commodore 64 loving chums who brought down the site as revenge or stop Tito winning? Maybe he started the hack at the beginning of the season and finally finished it in December?
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Gregor Foitek
When you think of Formula One legends like Prost, Senna and Schumacher you also automatically remember the Swiss born, part-primate superstar Gregor Foitek.
Gregor, who’s DNA once revealed an uncomfortable amount of chimp-protein, had a long and successful F1 career from 1989 to 1990 when he stunned onlookers with his general disregard for safety or driving fast. However the Swiss ape’s most famous accolade was being credited as the driver that almost converted Johnny Herbert’s life into being less mobile that Frank Williams with a puncture.
But where is Gregor now? No one quite knows. Like Max Biaggi’s real hair Foitek slyly drifted off and disappeared never to be seen again. And that seems suspicious. Why would he do that unless he was plotting to bring down the internet’s number one MotoGP website?
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World Superbikes
The World Superbike Championship (MotoGP’s poorer, uglier and slower inbred cousin) is the series that we might watch if there wasn’t any MotoGP on that weekend. Each round consists of about 8 or something races per weekend in various re-hashed formats that are all easily won by Jonathan ‘big fish in a small pond’ Rea.
Removing interest of MotoGP, by taking down this very site, may have been a tactic to force viewers to try out WSBK instead…if they could ever figure out what channel it’s on.
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★★★★★
Think you know another culprit but don’t have any evidence? Then use the comments section below to grass them up.