MotoGP 2016

[Mental Trousers]

On a positive note there is Eugene Laverty's performance on an aging Ducati. His team is really short of cash and consequently had personnel problems, but he is ahead of both Ducati factory riders in the championship. Laverty should definitely send Iannone a thank you card.

Going on his performances this season, especially when the difficulties the team has had with cashflow and personnel are taken into account, he's a candidate for a Pramac seat. Redding's is the only one of the Pramac and factory seats that may be up for grabs next year as Lorenzo, one of the Andrea's (hopefully Dovi) and Petrucci are all right until the end of 2017.

To be fair though Marquez jumped on the Honda straight into a factory seat when the bike was at its best and the Yamaha not quite as good. If he had jumped on a sat or open class bike would he have set the world on fire? Who knows.

All we know is that this year and last both the factory riders are struggling, which doesn't bode well for the customer bikes who wont be getting the attention required to perform.
Its easy to sit here and laugh at how Miller and Crutchlow are spending more time sliding down the road than on it. But do any of us know how hard it is to ride?

Marquez was already signed up with HRC when the seat came up. They signed him without knowing exactly where they were going to put him, then Stoner left and it was a given. Honda certainly didn't sign him for his development abilities as the RCV has gone from being the best to being worst of the factory bikes (not counting the Aprilia which is still in it's early stages).

Anyone who laughs at any MotoGP rider is a moron. Those guys are 100 times better on a bike than anyone on this forum and they earned the chance to have a go at being the best.

[Grumph]

If anyone's looking for a development rider - and some should be IMO - Sam Lowe's doing bloody well on what i think is the only Speedup chassis at the pointy end of Moto2...
Seems to be typical tradesman type pom rider too, not fazed by the attention.

[Autech]

If anyone's looking for a development rider - and some should be IMO - Sam Lowe's doing bloody well on what i think is the only Speedup chassis at the pointy end of Moto2...
Seems to be typical tradesman type pom rider too, not fazed by the attention.

He is on a Kalex this year Grumph, you are right though he did well last year on the speed up, hence why KTM hired him for motogp I think


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[pritch]

I haven't finished reading the news - ummm no, more the speculation, yet but...

Following Crutchlow's announcement a couple of days ago that he was to sign a two year contract the next day there has been silence. CC has only posted a couple of totally unrelated comments on Twitter. This morning in a rather delicate piece of verbal footwork MCN speculate that the announcement of Crutchlow's move is tied in with the announcement of a move by another rider. Then without suggesting or implying anything at all, they name just one other rider, Pedrosa.

Honda are in the news, they are requesting that the rules relating to engine restriction be relaxed. Honda apparently want to scrap their current engines and start again? As David Emmett says though the problem is of Honda's own making, if they had listened to their test riders in 2014 (or their factory riders last year?) they wouldn't have this problem.

I don't remember Honda requesting the rules be relaxed back when Ducati had that carbon "airbox" non-frame which meant that everytime they wanted to change the "frame" they had to change the engine cases.

Meanwhile back to my reading.

Clarification: David Emmett has been requested to make it clear that the comments regarding the relaxing of the engine rules were the personal opinion of Livio Suppo - not of HRC.

[bistard]

How about this for a scenario, Pedrosa goes to Yamaha & then Vinales goes to Honda, imagine Marquez & Vinales in the same team??

[Autech]

I haven't finished reading the news - ummm no, more the speculation, yet but...

Following Crutchlow's announcement a couple of days ago that he was to sign a two year contract the next day there has been silence. CC has only posted a couple of totally unrelated comments on Twitter. This morning in a rather delicate piece of verbal footwork MCN speculate that the announcement of Crutchlow's move is tied in with the announcement of a move by another rider. Then without suggesting or implying anything at all, they name just one other rider, Pedrosa.

Honda are in the news, they are requesting that the rules relating to engine restriction be relaxed. Honda apparently want to scrap their current engines and start again? As David Emmett says though the problem is of Honda's own making, if they had listened to their test riders in 2014 (or their factory riders last year?) they wouldn't have this problem.

I don't remember Honda requesting the rules be relaxed back when Ducati had that carbon "airbox" non-frame which meant that everytime they wanted to change the "frame" they had to change the engine cases.

Meanwhile back to my reading.

Once again you produce the good Pritch, tumeke bro! Fingers crossed that Dani makes the move and shows em all how to ride a Yamaha!

[pritch]

http://www.motorsportmagazine.com/op...-unpredictable

[Reckless]

http://www.motorsportmagazine.com/op...-unpredictable

Cheers pritch good stuff I read this in the comments section of that article

"Kudos to Vignales for staying with Suzuki, it would have been a major mistake for him to be team mate to Rossi, because he would have been faster, and thus tortured by Rossi".

Cant find anything to say hes made an announcement????

[Autech]

http://www.sportrider.com/motogp-ped...rc213vs-issues

[Crasherfromwayback]

http://www.sportrider.com/motogp-ped...rc213vs-issues

He actually explained fuck all.

[pritch]

Cant find anything to say hes made an announcement????

I wondered whan I read his comment, but a check of the MotoGP site showed a lot about Vinales but nothing about a new contract. There was a report that Suzuki wanted to keep Vinales but Yamaha had reservations about trumping the Suzuki offer while Vinales was still something of an unknown quantity. From memory that was where one of the references to Vinales never having had a podium finish came from.

Of course if MCN got it wrong, it could be a Suzuki contract announcement that is holding up Crutchlow's news. That's slightly more believable than CC replacing Pedrosa at Repsol.

Maybe next week at Mugello there will be announcements?

[roogazza]

Of course if MCN got it wrong, it could be a Suzuki contract announcement that is holding up Crutchlow's news. That's slightly more believable than CC replacing Pedrosa at Repsol.

I dunno,why would anyone give Crashalot a Repsol Honda ? (well,crash.net or MCN probably would,but they're not doing the pickin huh ?).
That's like giving Bwadley Smiff another good bike,a waste !

[Crasherfromwayback]

Didn't Old Mate make a bet with me again this season that Bradley Smith would get a top five finish?

Make 'em cold Bro!!!

[Dadpole]

I dunno,why would anyone give Crashalot a Repsol Honda ?

My thought was that they may as he is the leading (non-factory) Honda. Then I found Rabat is... If Pedrosa does go then HRC will have to look to Moto2 or 3 or WSBK or WSS or anywhere rather than hire Crashlow. No disrespect to the man, but I think they need a very special rider with the bike they have at present. Perhaps they could tempt Yvon Duhamel out of retirement. He was the sort of rider who would wring the crap out of the Honda and laugh.

[Autech]

He actually explained fuck all.

Haha, pretty much eh?

I shall summarise the article using NZ street talk: "da bike duz mean skids and phat wheelies, hardz g"

Alex Rins would be my #1 pick for Dani's seat if they were to go shopping in moto2


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