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"I wanna mention in this one. Just very briefly. Jack miller for some reason kind of seems stuck in this sam. Lowes type of waste where he's fourth or fifth like every race. It just can't figure out how to get on the podium and it looks all the more glaring in contrast to what his teammate has been up to. Of course it doesn't help that he got beat by rookie on a two year old. Do khadi on frisia mirror. Qualifying does him in again. It's the same story. for suzuki. mir did a good job. He crossed the line. V before getting demoted when spot for a truck limits violation on the final lap so he improved six spots from where he started imagine. If he'd started on the first two rows he would have easily been putting in contention in this one. It's all about qualifying for those guys and ktm got bit by qualifying this weekend as well. Now on the other side of the board polo spago may had finished better in silverstone as far as the results were concerned. But this was just about as good of a race for him. He looked legitimately racy especially early on and then held on for a nice finish looking down the field a little bit further maverick fan. Y'all s scored points which that's a good sign improvement from his first race on the apprecia-. What's not a good sign though maverick lineup tenth on the grid. Great qualifying effort and he was seventeenth across the line. The first time around so apparently the move provia isn't going to do a whole lot to solve the terrible starting problem for maverick fan ya'll as you would think fresh start new bike new enthusiasm he would be able to ditch all those gremlins. At least that one is still hanging out. And i think that's a little bit concerning. I know it's early on but that should be at least a little bit of a concern for everybody to try to address before it becomes a major problem for him when the bike really does click with him and he starts to get better and better results. Up for valentino rossi. His first last race at misano didn't go terribly. Well qualifying just killed any shot at a decent result but he did finish ahead of franken morbidelli whose debut on the factory bike didn't go terribly well but he's still recovering from a major knee injury and he did finish ahead of andrea of it's the oso whose debut on the patrol spike didn't go terribly. Well you you see the pattern. Here right But hey dobie still needs time to get back in the racing shape but at least he finished ahead of nobody. He finished dead last so he really has. Some work to do is what i'm saying. So you're voting him in this one on top of the box for the second week in a row francesco back by his six podium of the season as he continues to establish himself as a future contender in twenty twenty two and a way better rider than he looked like. Even last year a fabulous charro may not have won this race but frankly he didn't need to even second is a significant step forward towards a motor gp championship. Then branding things out a neighbor. Asti anini his maiden motogp podium was incredibly fun to watch and a great moment for him in dementia do coty now as we look towards the championship. It's not over yet technically. But we're rapidly getting to that point. Fabio cortra- does lose a little bit of ground in the ryder standings. Not a whole lot. And he takes forty eight point lead out of me. Sano with just four races left to go. And yes like the world be commentators. Were saying because the lead isn't over fifty points right now that technically does mean that. He can't mathematically clinch in the us round at circuit of the americas. But that wasn't going to happen anyway. Because that would have required fabio to win and then back to like fall down and scores zero points. I don't know that either of those things is gonna happen. joanne mir is sixty. Seven points back in third realistically though he's out of this one and for petco. It's not looking good. He needs to make up. Twelve points parades just to tie and if he wins all four races in the process. That's the only way he would then have the tiebreaker over. Fabio coiro in wins. And if petco did win all for then all you would have to do is average a fourth place finish and then just find one more point on top of that and he still wins the championship. But you know there's no guarantee that bobbio was gonna average fourth-place place finish from here on out. So i suppose that the door is open. Just a little tiny bed but if we're being a bit more realistic about things and we say hey. Petco continues with this momentum. His a great finish to the season and average is a much more realistic second-place finish from this point forward. That means if bobbio just needs to score cheap points per race and that's it so an average finish of eighth. And i'm sure you can see where i'm going with this because even a slightly struggling coiro still probably going to average at least an eighth place finish so i'm expecting to wrap things up here either. At the end of the next misano round or in portugal. I would be shocked. If the title was still in question going into valencia. Where the did coiro would have a huge advantage over bag to kati by the way so things are really breaking in fabio queiroz direction rate. Now it's only a matter of time. He just needs to take care of business. Don't fall down and he's pretty much. Got the two thousand twenty one championship locked up and then all we have to figure out at that. Point is the very hotly contested constructor and team championships which are definitely up in the air between yamaha and do coty this season all right so my take on the same marino. Gp it didn't have the same excitement as aragon well outside of the motorway madness but the first piece on race definitely had some unexpected twists and turns and in intense. Finish to the modal gp race. So i'll take that as a start and expect a little bit more exciting action throughout the field. When we're back at the marco semen shelly circuit in about a month's time all right. So that's my take on the san marino. Gp what did you think of the race. You know what to do. Leave your comments on facebook at facebook dot com slash motor week dot net or over on the red. It sabat are slash motor week..
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"The way if you're motorcycle insurance allows you to spend even if it's like five bucks or ten bucks a month extra for towing looking at that towing belfer pistol pete. Good investment right. Now i do have triple a but i think insurance would be cheaper overall because aaa makes you pay extra if you have a motorcycle. Which by the way. I think sucks that they do that but they do. And here's the thing. All right so pistol pete side of the road waiting for the tow truck with his. He wasn't the only one rogue three standing by also posted a pick sitting by the side of the road next to his tone. Oh what are the odds of that. By the way this time it was a rear flat tire which again pretty crappy. Whenever i've been on big trips. I typically carry a patch kit and the timing electric pump. You know just turned me somewhere where i can have a professional. Take a look at it if i have a flat but that was only a long trips and that was what the bmw bags and places to keep a bunch of stuff. Tony doesn't have that luxury of being stranded. Anywhere sucks but being stranded in the summer wearing your gear is like the worst but seriously You guys have to pick better themes for photo contests. Then what's the most creative way. I can get my stuck by the side of the road But moving on to things that are much cheerier much happier times tattoo. Raven went to that neat current tractor event at circuit of the americas berry very jealous so many great things happening. They're small group. Track time at a full on modo. gp circuit nate's there. Of course ben spe- showed up although. I'm pretty sure that that was a yamaha. He was riding in that video. And not a bmw. And your wife's reaction to the ride along in the m three. That was absolutely hilarious. And by the way i would echo is something you said in a response on that post. I would always always always suggest that if you're doing any kind of car based track event where there's an option or an offer to do a ride along totally do and i mean. Obviously those are much more common car events as opposed to motorcycle based events but do it if you get the opportunity. If you're not that interested you'll have fun and if you're really interested it's so valuable because you think you know what a particular car might be capable of. Maybe even driven the car right. Then you get into the car where professional is driving it and you find out that all along you only figuring out in the end what you were capable of now you find out what the car is capable of with a pro or an instructor you find out that you can push it a lot further than you would imagine. And i've done that in streetcars. Sports cars in stock cars. And it makes you better when you're behind the wheel yourself. And i wish there was an easy way to do the same thing with bikes. You know outside of the few people who've gotten the awesome opportunity to ride the to up motor. Gp bike with rainy memola There aren't really that many opportunities to get on a bike with somebody a professional. You can really get the feeling that they get and plus. You're adding so much weight to the bike that that feeling that you get riding to up really doesn't match what you get on your own but when it comes to a car man get in it and do the right along you learn so much Guy on two wheels. You're going to get a couple of votes for me for parents of the year or grandparent. I'm not sure which one or the other not only are you getting. the little ones hooked on motor. Gp at the right time. But i believe you said that one of them was named luca is that right because he's already got a motor. Gp name at that point. So you gotta get him on the bike like asap with a name like that. You're gonna win something not quite sure. What but you're gonna win something so get a bike and then finally malin which i'm assuming stands for minnesota come on man check out that do coty three fifty old school. Gp south bearing. I dug it with the stickers but it looks even better when you cleaned it up. It looks the part. I can't imagine what it's like to have the chain and the shift or on the right side. The bike think i would probably put myself over the windshield a couple of times thinking. I was shifting when it was really breaking. I i don't understand how some of you guys fate is like this to faith three sixteen find these awesome bikes to bring home. All i find are like broken down ninety s bikes that. Follow me home. I gotta start searching harder for like really cool awesome stuff. I love it seriously. Good looking old school bike. And by the way. I just popped over before i started the show to the red at sub real quick and chip has posted the first picture of the custom bearing the archie fifty one and it looks good. Top marksman definitely top marks cannot wait until the tank is done. We get a good shot seeing the entire by kind of coming together and i will admit that last week i was searching for fifty one's on craigslist. I know i shouldn't looking anyway kid. It doesn't cost anything. The look i mean eventually it does but at least that's what i'm telling myself all right so that's it for the comments and pick some video for this week if i didn't get here it's it's probably because you posted it just recently in the last few hours or so just simply haven't seen it yet. so make sure you keep posting. There also was another picture that was right below chips of an old school buell. I believe it was a tube frame one as well. Yeah i think it was an s. One lightning one way or the other. It was very cool and we'll talk about it on the next show along with what chip is up to fifty one but for now we gotta move on because this weekend. That's right we're back at it again after that incredible battle between petco bag and marquez and aragon no waiting to find out what's going to happen next hopefully we'll have just as thrilling of a battle for the win as motor. Gp moves to misano. Who gets two rounds. At the world circuit marco semen celli just like they did season ago. Now this time around. It's not two races in a row but both races have the potential for some unexpected results of the italian. Riders of course are going to be ultra motivated at home too in particular valentino rossi of course running in one of his final motogp races in front of the hometown fans and the italian writer making his return to the motogp. Read that considers san marino his home track andrea of ceo's so on top of that where franken morbidelli making his return in factory colors. No less fabio coiro. His new teammate is looking to get his championship. Run pointed back in the right direction again. And then we've got mark and petco maybe setting up a number two. We can only hope right so there's a lot to look forward to this weekend. Let's talk about it from the track to the favorites. A couple of riders. I've got a my watchlist this weekend. Then of course. I'm gonna make some picks we'll start with where they're racing the saana world circuit marco semen celli. And it's a very interesting track for a couple of reasons. First and foremost. This place is intensely italian. And with being the first of the two-part. Goodbye to valentine rossi. Even though the venue isn't allowed to build the capacity at least for this race you can bet that the fans that they do let in are going to be over the top enthusiastic and there's going to be yellow everywhere as they all desperately hope that their hometown hero can give his illustrious motor. Gp career a proper. Send off with one more podium number two hundred But even though this is a bit of an italian cathedral and they're going to be rooting orb morbidelli and also in bag nyas. Well that doesn't necessarily mean the italian writers dominate here. Nobody does really. And that's the next interesting aspect of asano in the last nine races. Over eight years. Marc marquez is the only repeat winner not dolby. Not rossi only marquez. He's done at three times while six. Two writers have all won once during that span and there are several reasons for that sometimes. It's the weather sometimes. It's a little bit of luck. in sometimes. The.
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"franken morbidelli" Discussed on MotoWeek - MotoGP, Motorcycle and Racing News
"What age thirty four. That's perfect example. I mean yes. There are people that start riding in their thirties. I started writing in my twenties. Right nets really late but for all of us who have ever gone to that dealership and purchase motorcycle. We know how big of a moment that is right with. Jonathan ray was acting like it was just as big of a moment. And he's a six time world champion you know. And he gets to have for the first time this experience that all of us have had and he'd never know what that was like before man so that's a perfect example of how when you live in a very very intensely focused world yet you may not really understand the people around you. The people that idolize you the people to buy your gearing goto the track. Cheer for you to win. You know. I mean marquez. In valentina rossi they may not really understand the people that love them so much that come to the races every single round. So it's kind of a weird situation to think about. I wouldn't think about it too much. Because then you get a little bit jaded and i don't want to do affect anybody's enjoyment of you know the racing or the favorite rider or anything like that. So i don't wanna get too bogged down in the reality of the situation. I mean that's part of what's so much fun about motor. Jp motorcycle racing. So let's all just assume that whoever your favorite writer is totally get you man. They really do. I'm snooze bart. Bart and stu in scotland are both looking forward to potential motor. Gp opportunities for jake. Dixon and darren bender respectively. Dixon of course is racing this weekend and then been earlier is going to do a superbike test. That'll be next week epernay. No i would not be surprised at all to see him on that franken morbidelli bike than at aragon beyond that. We could be seeing a frankie return. We could see him move up and dobie come into the picture. I don't know so. I'm not quite sure. If both of those riders are going to make the motor. Gp squad for twenty twenty two but at least for right now. I think it's gonna be a lot of fun to see them both. Get the opportunity and see what they can do. I wouldn't expect a whole lot. Because i mean obviously it's a whole new world for both of these writers. It would be unrealistic to expect anything huge but some improvement from the first day to the end of the weekend i think would be a good sign and would help them make their case to be part of that. Sr team in twenty twenty two. And of course. Like i said i'm assuming the benders going to get a shot but i think he probably will get a shot at aragon. Were shortly thereafter. I'm peter fifty-eight kerry asked very short question into it. I will give a very short answer. The question could be the next to kati rider to win a championship. My answer yeah. I think there's a good chance of that. And that's not to take anything away. From jack miller a petco back ni- who are both very capable of winning a championship. But if they can't do it. I could totally see that happening with martine. And how mad do you think. Ktm is going to be if he does move up to that factory team in the next couple of years and win a championship because that could have been there writer instead had been a little bit smarter about him. I'm speaking petco back. Ni- deejay said he was getting some serious shades of andrea decio so in the dry portion of the austrian. Gp a little over a week ago. What he meant by that was. He noticed that wins. Pekka was up front. He was slowing the pace down. Controlling things racing very y being very hard the past saving a little bit of himself in the bike for the end while in the meantime stacking up the competition behind them and encouraging those riders to fight for position and hopefully use up their tires so they didn't have a little extra at the end. And you're right about that in fact you can see it on the time sheet. Despite the fact that qualifying times were faster and race to than race won the actual pace of that second race pekka was leading was notably slower in the syrian. Gp that where he martine one of course the majority of his laps were in the one twenty four point three two one twenty four point five range right around there petco. One week later he was running one. Twenty four point eight through one twenty five point one a half seconds slower per lap. And that's not just dovy like it's smart because as dj noted and i'm sure that some people are wondering why would you want to slow down the pace. Why wouldn't you wanna go as fast as you can think about it. This way do qadis. Power advantage in a straight. Line isn't terribly reliant on tires so every time he gets on a big straight they can fly down faster than everybody else. How do y'all mahan. Suzuki make up that deficit. They make that up two ways by trying to out to you and corner speed and more importantly trying to outbreak you into the corner. Which of course leans very heavily on the frontier. So if you're petco back naya or before that andre the video so and you can effectively slow down the pace keeping a garage behind you but not ones that can really pass you. Because you've got that advantage on the front stretch. Then in meantime everybody else wants to be that writer second. They want to have that shot to catch you when the time comes at the end of the race. So they're jockeying back and forth. They're using up their tires and then at the end of the race the guy who's been saving at the front. He gets a little bit of an advantage because the yamaha's zukis can't break his heart going into the corners they don't have as much corner speed because they use up their stuff fighting with each other to be the one to chase down. Petco in the end. And it's very good the back nine picking up on this. But they're of course is a limited number of tracks where you can really really use it. Effectively notably the and go tracks the ones with really big straits. But i agree with you that there was a different tactic for petco back night than there was with martine and part of that is just the bike they had on that particular day but part of that is definitely maturity level. In part of petco now has quite a few races under his belt. He's learning how to do it. Where martin. And i'm sure it was just like full of journal in wanted to go as fast as he possibly could. So martine one like a rookie bag was attempting to win like a veteran but he didn't get the opportunity because of course the rains came Now let's Move on the rage. Who asked a little bit about world. Superbike he wanted to know some of my thoughts about the scott reading drama. He made a surprise announcement last weekend that he was going to be leaving the duke. Audi world superbike team at the end of the year to go race for bmw and he gave us all a very strong indication that the relationship between hamadou cardi was not a very strong one or a very friendly one at this point in the season and then to flip the script entirely duke audi announced that they're bringing back alvar. Oh batista replace your remember a couple of years ago bautista bolted onto coty after he and do khadi weren't getting along at that point in the season So history repeating itself but then folding back on itself as well and this is all very interesting because when we look at the motor gp side which just a few changes do. Coty had pretty much convinced that they had kind of turned the corner in terms of writer relations by bringing him younger guys across the board and guys that weren't expected to be instant phenom so the impression that we were left with is that they were going to be more content with the idea of developing younger riders over time making them into champions instead of just focusing on the bike the bike the bike and then expecting the riders to jump on it and provide instant results. And when they don't say well it's not our fault. We've got the perfect bike. You're just not a good writer get out of here. We'll find somebody else.
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"franken morbidelli" Discussed on MotoWeek - MotoGP, Motorcycle and Racing News
"Obviously if he started winning races or getting on the podium could indirectly affect the rider championship but it could however make a real difference in what we were talking about earlier with valentina. Rossi the team race. Because if valentino give factory yamaha a slightly better chance of locking down that team championship. I think franken morbidelli. If he's feeling healthy we'll give them a much better chance of locking down that championship so in the end they might get some pushback from do on that because to cadiz not necessarily going to wanna willingly allow yamaha to get a much better quality rider on that second bike win on a technicality. They can either prevent it all together or force him to use the older equipment. I don't know what they would do that. But it all depends on. How much do. Kati wants to win that team championship. And it also doesn't say in the rule book if that has to be a unanimous decision or not and so if you know the answer to that definitely let me know on facebook or read it now. The other potential hang up here is that yamaha was rumored to be offering petronas to be suspect bikes for next year. Not necessarily a full factory and a b spec and in that case i would be pretty surprised if doby said yes to being handed a euro bike when we know he said no to aprilia for whatever. Their latest stuff was but yamaha could always simply change their mind on that offer. Patrolling the factory stuff for andre the video so should he want to race next year and then for this year he wouldn't necessarily have to take over the morbidelli bike for up to three races. He could be a wild card and get full factory equipment. At that point as well maybe impetus colors but he could be given any engine. They wanted him to have if he was just running. Say the last three races of the year as a wildcard as a warm up for next season and then up to that point. They do the thing where they're swapping outriders whether it be you know bender dixon or chevy vr. Hey or somebody else. Now the idea of bringing dre also two yamaha to ride on one of the sat rt bikes long-term. This would not be an impactful. Move for yamaha mean w is going to be thirty six years old next year. He's not gonna stick around for very much longer one way or the other short-term though it does solve a few major problems especially concerning s rt. It gives them a much needed injection of performance potential which they're sorely lacking this year in having a well known and popular writer on the bike is gonna make it much easier to bring in a sponsor. Maybe that's part of the deal when it comes to with you. I'm sure they would be much more excited to be working with the young rider and andrei dot. Co them may be a motoo rider. That hasn't done a whole lot. Emoto three writer. That probably shouldn't be making the jump straight to the premier class straight away so both of those things performance in sponsorship very critical right now with petronas bailing on the team as a sponsor leaving them probably pretty desperate for financial support. And let's face it. If you can't have allen tina rossi to bring in the bucks. Have an andre the video so not that bad of an alternative so because of the situation currently at us. Rt and a complete lack of viable alternatives on the outside bringing riders and talent. I think there is a real chance that this could happen. And like i said short-term not really a bad thing. I don't see the downside especially since it buys them another year where they can start playing in the two thousand twenty three scillies market where a lot more. Riders are going to be available and they'll probably be able to find some young talent to come up to the us. Rt team all right. So that's what's happening on the yamaha side of things. I know it's a lot to take in and a lot the process but just another week for the folks that yamaha. Now let's take a brief look at the other side of the equation which could end up being just as interesting. Maverick vangelis now. An official free agent could already be headed to approach. This was my thought about a second. After reading net yamaha announcement and intrigued. Goose asked the same thing on read. It is maverick headed to a right away. I think there's an even better chance of that. Then the andrea dot co soda. Yamaha thing there are already rumors that massimo revolt probably is ready to pounce on this very fortunate opportunity with plan skin maverick on an appropriate to test by the next week probably just scheduling motorcycles to be available was the big hurdle there and then after that point they're going to assess his comfort level out of that first test and come up with a plan with a very strong possibility that he'll run wild card braces between now and the end of the season and the thing is he could run every single race from aragon to the end of the season without having to be a jerk till lorenzo salvadore in the reason for that is because apparently still has concessions and that means they get six wild card appearances to use a year. Instead of three and with tentatively six races left in the season after silverstone. If in y'all as feels good enough after the test he could conceivably run the rest of the year and they wouldn't have to boot. Lorenzo salvadore out of the second bike to make that happen and as unusual of circumstances. This is weird of a situation. I mean we're talking about this. Before of rider in the middle of the season leaving the top manufacturer statistically of course to go to the bottom manufacturer. If really can make those wildcards happen. They absolutely should. It is a no brainer that they should put maverick on the bike. Like yesterday and not have a layoff between his time with omaha and his time with really. They need to have him on track. I mean we saw what happened inhaler. Enzo sat out a long time. And then try to get back on the grid and then andre david. Co so who may or may not but. He certainly is going to be rusty if he does come back this year. The last thing. That apparently or maverick for that matter want is for him to sit out. Half a season mean who knows what effect that might have on him heading into twenty twenty two plus. They get a huge advantage in terms of development and getting the bike. Ready for maverick. Next year in the word is that a probably are very close to having their new much more powerful and jim ready to roll out. The one that alex fargo said was so desperately needed to be able to match the capability of the chassis. So the timing is perfect. Get that bike in that engine. Inventory his hands right away when the pressure is off. There are no expectations here so he can fully get comfortable he can finish. That lasted doesn't matter. The important part is that he starts working on the package and getting it suited toward him so he can hit the ground running in two thousand twenty two so there will be no better plan than for them to get mab measured up for leathers and get him on the bike as quickly as they possibly can. In fact be stupid not to in fact. Andreas was convinced over on. Read it that this was all part of an evil master plan by says knowing that a had this new engine on the horizon had up the any little bit get yamaha to the point where they were okay to cut him loose so he could just make the switch and take advantage of it..
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"franken morbidelli" Discussed on MotoWeek - MotoGP, Motorcycle and Racing News
"Rest of the season after silverstone to maybe the last couple of races maybe the final misano race out to valencia. I wouldn't rule it completely out for two reasons number. One posterity's sake. You know giving something back to the fans allowing the doctor to finish his career in factory letters like we all remember him but then it would also maybe just. Maybe if they don't have any other options give them a slightly better chance to win the team championship. Obviously the results so far this season don't really scream that but if valet has good british gp. I could realistically see yamaha at least considering it. I mean i could potentially even see it happening. And how at this point yamaha's down the rabbit hole with the wild unexpected stuff anyway. So why not in fact. That's not the only option for someone to take over the former twelve bike for the rest of the season. If you want to hear an even wilder possibility. I've got one for you now according to this rt. Because because i guess we gotta start calling rt. Because they're not gonna be petronas anymore. According to them we should be getting some news this weekend about their plans going forward. I don't know if that includes a writer announcement yet or if they're just going to talk you know. Structurally how the organization is going to work without petronas as a sponsor anymore and because sapang international circuit is no longer going to be involved in the ownership of the team. And by the way. It seems like with you is going to be the new sponsor to pick up going into next season but if there is a writer announcement who will be jake. Dixon darren bender or maybe andrea da vinci. Also yeah Thanks to build for posting this one. As soon as the article came out over on the race. They're reporting that we've for this one andrea vid also could be headed to yamaha before the end of the season. And it's funny because just a couple of days ago before that article came out mr t. asked over rated. If maybe dovy wasn't talking to yamaha you gotta tell us where you're getting your info from because apparently that could be the case. Now i'll tell you the rumor. Then i'll tell you about one consideration that we have to make when it comes to this rumor and then one potential up. That could stop the entire thing. The rumor here is the following that andrea the video. So now as we speak is in talks with yamaha with the idea being that once franken morbidelli is ready to come back and his healthy instead of going back to petronas. He's going to go straight to the factory team. And then andrei david video so is gonna to take over his spot patrol until the end of the season as a precursor to him them racing. Full time for sapang racing team in twenty two. Now that's the rumor and before we discussed the merits of that rumor. We have to take into consideration the engine allocation rule here because franken morbidelli is a fulltime writer. And he's using an old engine and technically he would have to continue to run that old engine which effectively means he would have to take his entire older bike with him to the factory team. And i can't imagine yamaha would be terribly eager to roll with one full factory bike and when be spec bike while they hand petronas pair factory rides for the rest of the season. But here's the thing if you go look at the mo- gp rulebook. And i'm sorry. I forgot to write down what pages these were on. If you wanna take a look at it But the writer replacement rule states that for the purposes of engine allocation a replacement rider is assumed to be the same as the original rider. So whatever ryder takes over from africa than y'all as would get the same engine allocation as maverick than y'all less left the bike with so whoever fills in for maverick would get the same year model. Your engine and they would get the same number of engines as maverick had for the rest of the season. So if you transfer that over to franco morbidelli. And say hey. Franko is mavericks replacement rider than technically. He could jump mavericks bike with the brand new engine but the rules. Also say that a contract fulltime writer can't be film writer can't be a replacement rider so that means that frankie can't just jump mavericks bike because he's already fulltime writer and the reason that rule exists is to prevent somebody from skirting the engine allocation rules and getting a new engine or a different engine or getting access to more engines. Maybe would have had for the rest of the season in their current situation. However the rules also say that the grand prix commission can approve a fulltime writer to be a replacement rider. So that in turn means the frankie's not done here yet. He may possibly be able to go to mavericks bike if everyone says yes and i imagined that if this rumor is true and they do remove franken morbidelli up. Well that's probably something yamaha's working very hard behind the scenes to get consensus on at this moment of getting all the members of the grand prix commission to say. Yes because you're in. This crappy situation will allow franken morbidelli to move up and be the replacement rider for maverick man. Y'all as which means he would get access to those brand new motors and whatever. The latest chessy is that goes with them. I can't imagine that they won't be able to get approval since yamaha is in such a unique position. As having one of the best riders in the sports bail on them and that kind of moving franken morbidelli up wooden impact the rider championship directly..
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"Wouldn't blame yamaha. If they don't feel they can trust him to try to get good results especially not in the wake of the appropriate deal in that announcement. Because you know if maverick had gotten back on the almond finished dead last every race from here on out what difference would it. Really even make to maverick. I mean it's not going to affect whether he has a gig next season or not and you could make him look kind of bad not trying if it was provable that he wasn't trying but it probably doesn't care about that and that's all that really matters to him right now and on top of it. If he went out there and didn't try and finished very poorly he can just turn the whole thing around and blame it on yamaha blaming on the bike. He did that when he was happy with them so of course he would try to do that when he was unhappy with them and then they would feel compelled to defend themselves and then it just gets weird and uncomfortable the rest of the season and then on top of that yamaha gain the ability to start really testing parts for twenty twenty two on that second bike and yeah that luxury does come at the expense of the team championship or at least endangering their bid for the team championship. But that really would have hinged on maverick getting on the m one and getting consistent results consistently good results and that was kind of up in the air so it still may have been a bit of a gamble one way or the other even though as we talked about before of is that rides to his potential would've given yamaha a massively better shot at winning the team title and so in some ways. They're really writing that off but as we'll talk about here in a couple of minutes maybe they still have an answer to up their sleeve that they haven't played yet. I'm but still one way or the other. Even though maverick benefits on one side and yamaha certainly benefits on. There's this is still crazy to think about. I mean this is in a situation like joins zarko at ktm. There were no discernible results. It just wasn't working in both sides understood that and they decided the partways really more because ktm wanted to develop for the next year. It's not that they didn't want to be nice to zarko. I mean he would've stuck around and they would have him stick around till the end of the year had. They not had the new stuff that they wanted to develop for last season. But in this case this is a writer with a win and two podiums this season. He's six overall in points. And that's what the couple of terrible races and not only is he leaving a factory team that is leading the rider constructor and team championships right now but he may actually end up bracing for another factory team before the end of the year and again this is not like the johann zarco situation. Yes sarko wrote a honda at the end of that season. But it wasn't the same thing i mean. This is legitimately a guy who could have been an started out the year as a title contender dumping the best manufacturer. Statistically this season to go to the worst manufacturer this season. i mean. It's definitely not something that you or. I would have ever dreamed of at the beginning of the year. So that's the deal and we'll talk about the implications for maverick and what he might do next in a moment but first let's start with yamaha's plan going forward. Which at least for this weekend in silverstone consists of cal crutch. Slow moving to the factory bike and then a second british rider. Jake dixon coming up from the petronas moto to team to take over the motor. Gp bike for probably. What's just one race. But hey it's like the biggest race of his life he gets the race a motor. Gp bike made his debut at his home. Track in silverstone. Now cal was set to participate this weekend. Anyway of course on the franco morbidelli bike. Having him on maverick fan. Y'all is bike makes so much more sense for the reasons that we've already talked about moves from franken morbedelli's two thousand nineteen chassis to occur at one where he may or may not perform that much better but he'll have a real ability to test parts and provide feedback in data. That is far more useful to yamaha the rest of this season and of course heading into twenty twenty two and then the dixon thing i mean it doesn't necessarily mean he's gonna get that ride next season but it is a fantastic opportunity for the team to see whether he's got the potential to make that move for those who aren't terribly familiar. Jake dixon's moto statistics. Not really the thing that big time careers are built off of necessarily but you never know join arco who nobody wanted to take a gamble on until he finally won a couple of championships or a guy like yoenis vulgar who nobody paid attention to it all and then in his very brief motogp career. He showed some real promise. Maybe jake dickson has that same inherent ability. Once he gets on the bike. I dunno yamaha doesn't know but they're going to try and find out this weekend so i don't think it's that big of a deal that they're giving somebody who isn't a top rider emoto to a shop you know one race weekend just to kinda give them a test and this does give patrolling the opportunity then to try out multiple riders at least until the point that franken morbidelli comes back so i would expect that. We'll probably see dixon just this weekend. And then maybe darren bender at aragon. Which i think is very likely considering. The fact that dixon is apparently doing test next week on a yamaha superbike obviously not on a motor. Gp by he's not allowed to abide he'll ride basically thousand cc either street bike or maybe a wsb k. Prepared bike or somewhere in between and then from there though determine whether he's going to get a motor gp shop for a race. And i would fully expect to see them. Give him the opportunity in aragon if it goes beyond that and morbidelli can't come back. I'm not quite sure who they go to next. But they could either alternate dixon and bender. They might get caviar. Hey into the mix or they might have somebody else to come up in kind of. Take a shot at bike. If you've got that opportunity you've got the luxury of a bike to give for a couple of rounds until your guy comes back. Might as well make the most of it and as for cal on the factory bike. No plans have been announced past silverstone now one would assume that crutch slow continue the rest of the season but there are other possibilities here a big one that we're going to talk about in a moment but a minor one could we see valentino. Rossi returned to the factory team for anywhere from the rest of the.
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"Were kind of a different story. Jack had some really really bad results as he tried to get a grip on both the track and his motogp career for that matter. But the jack that we saw last year was much more representative of where he is right. Now is a writer and obviously he's on an even better bike with even more support than we had last season. Jack wants to be qadis leader. And this is his chance to take the reins amongst the desma riders and make up a desperately needed chunk of points on quattro. Ro at the same time to get himself back into this title fight. Jack is definitely going to be one of writers to be on sunday. Buddy is gonna have stiff competition both from outside and from within and of the other. Do cadi riders sean. Zarko for me could be the toughest challenger now last year at the red bull ring. Well that was certainly a memorable pair of weekends for johann but not for the reasons he or anybody else was expecting for that matter for those who aren't familiar. You should go back and watch. And the first race. He was involved in that now. Infamous wreck franken morbidelli. Then he suffered the effects of that in the second race. Having to start from pit lane this time around. Though things i would think are going to be way different. He's on a better bike. More confidence he's second in the points right now and hey branko. Morbidelli isn't even in this race so he's not going to repeat that bit of madness is so not only zarko looking for some sort of redemption at this track he's absolutely capable of it Arcos best motogp finish at. The rebel ring is death. That was actually on a yamaha not wanted to carry unease one here moto too but i think he's got a great shot to outdo his previous fifth-place mark on the decouty this weekend. And of course he's going to be aiming to get back on the podium. Now fabio quarrel isn't going to be the first rider. Most people think of as a potential winner in austria. But i'm telling you right now definitely. Don't sleep on him. He's one hundred percent capable of being in the mix on sunday because he's almost certainly going to have a really good starting spot now. Last year was a little bit tough for fabio at the rebel ring. But he hasn't been struggling anywhere this season. I mean you at tracks like low sale and mugello. That haven't always been nice to yamaha with their top speed problems. Those haven't been an issue for bobbio and that bodes well for this weekend and he's finished on the podium here before so yes the dukakis advantage and the ktm's will be awfully stout however quattro is capable of making up the difference on the brakes and in the corners and not only. Will he be in podium contention as fast as he's been all season i would not discount him as a potential winner in this race. He's going to be motivated to hold off the qadis and spoil their party because they think they're going to get him for a lot of points on sunday afternoon next up on the favorites list. Mark marquess and as usual this season. He's a little bit of a question mark when it comes to health. But we've all seen what he's capable of doing germany. of course we've also seen him struggle with his shoulder of the majority of the season not to mention his continually recovering arm. However he's have five weeks off to recover and gradually build up his workouts and his endurance. And he's probably in the best spot yet to look like the mark of old and mark of old not too shabby in austria. He of course has teamed up with andrei david. Oh so the put on some of the most spectacular shows ever hear emoji. The strange part is he's never come out on top. He's never one race in austria even though he's finished second here three times in his career races along with the fifth back in two thousand sixteen but even though he's number one he's definitely going to be locked in on that goal this weekend. He knows he's capable of it. He's likely to be the healthiest. He has been since his return. And that's going to make him into a serious threat. And i think he will be targeting a podium and another epic fight with the dukakis in front of him of course it might not just be do cadiz that are in front of mark that he's fighting with because ktm figures to be at the front two mb l. Avera he's going to be leading that charge coming off his surprised victory in the second race here last season. Actually i say it was a surprise but it wasn't. It was surprising because of the clever move. He made in that final corner to get past. Jack miller and paula spago. But he was legitimately going to be a podium. Finish or one way or the other in that race and we've seen since then that finish and his speed is no fluke now. The wind is obviously the highlight of his motogp. Stats here. But he's been fast every time out in the first red ring race last season he was taken out by police bogra while they were battling for fifth and two thousand nineteen eight. That was the best. Finish of miguel oliveras rookie season. So he's gotten faster here every race and he clearly feels comfortable at this track and of course. Miguel has been absolutely phenomenal since getting that nuke. Atm chassis with a win. Three podiums and four top five finishes in the four rounds heading.
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"To kathi sells a fraction of the motorcycles around the world that's zouqi does and so there are a much smaller motorcycle company yet when they were given the opportunity to have three satellite teams and eight bikes on the grid. They jumped at the idea. But when suzuki had the opportunity to get one satellite team they went in the other direction. So i guess said not right or wrong. That's just what each one's priority is. And so i think that has a lot to do with suzuki being hesitant right now. Going forward. I think once they have a real replacement for wd brivio somebody from the european motor gp circle then. I think that there's going to be a much better chance that they finally bite the bullet and get a satellite team. Going forward moving on job rage made the argument that even though the popular opinion is the franco. Morbidelli is a shoo-in at factory yamaha for next year he's personally not one hundred percent convinced and huge numbers to back it up. And you know. I'm going to talk about it if he's a numbers. Because you guys know how much i love numbers but pointed out that while it might be impressive. How morbidelli finished second in the championship last year. But that was an unusual season. And i do agree with that. It doesn't necessarily mean he's following in the footsteps of abiocor toronto and as evidence of that judge sites that in two thousand nineteen when franco and fabio were on the most similar equipment that they've written the coiro finished fifth in the championship. That was fabio's rookie season while morbidelli was tenth and both of them were in their first year at yamaha at that point as well then last year frankie had the big surge finished second on a two thousand nineteen spec bike when everybody else at yamaha was struggling on the much more problematic twenty twenty spec and then you fast forward to this year where and franco are seemingly going in different directions. I mean morbidelli has struggled over the last four races. Coming away with zero points all the way up to the break or to asan where. He sat out before the break. And because of that you know judd said i was reading all these articles and hearing people talk about how it was maybe a slight to franken morbidelli lead that yamaha was approaching writers like row fernandez or miguel olivera which we know they talked to both or even somebody like pedroia kosta but that's not something that should be taken as a slight to franken morbidelli because he's allowed some question marks to be raised he hasn't really presented himself as heir-apparent moving forward and on that last point i'll totally agree i mean yamaha has to talk to any writer that they think they have a shot at getting. That's going to move the needle for them and while franken morbidelli and his team may not be terribly happy about that. They certainly have to understand that. If i'm yamaha picking up the phone. And i'm making sure that miguel olivera raul fernandez are not interested in moving over and that pedro pedroia cost isn't may be willing to make john or miss jumped. Totally shouldn't be making by the way. I'm or maybe even talking to somebody like jonathan bray. I mean the guy does have six titles. We talked about the reasons earlier. Why it's probably not the best idea for him to make the switch right now. But if you're yamaha you probably want to hear from him as much as he wants to hear from you. Knowing that there's an opportunity out there. Yamaha definitely wants to cast his wife annette as possible especially since they seem to be struggling to find guys who are interested in riding the bike but with that being said is franken morbidelli mirage. I don't think so. Franko has had some bad races this year. But the season-opener in qatar remember that was an issue with his rear whole shot device. Basically the poll rear shock failed on him then. There was the drastic in clearly noticeable drop-off in performance after his injury. The week lme. That was compounded by tweaking. Further in his flag the flag practice swap at that particular race and it is clear how much that injury affected him heading towards the break and in the pair of races inbetween that the buckling qatar. And all of the stuff that happened after the injury he did. Look like the frankie. That's worthy of moving up to the factory squad now. The problem is just didn't see a whole lot of that. Franken morbidelli because of those circumstances before and after and i think that's part of the reason. Why jeb rages wondering which franko is the real one. The one that we saw last year or the one that we saw the before that and we've seen so far this year and you know maybe yamaha's wondering the same thing and like i said last week. The biggest danger for franken morbidelli isn't yamaha just deciding that he's worthless and casting aside the biggest danger. Here is the fact that he's not on track to distract yamaha from those other writers who are outpacing expectations. This year like raul fernandez if broncos on the bike and he's not injured in. He's finishing on the podium. I mean yeah. Yamaha's calling raoul. But they're calling him not to maybe go up to the factory team the for the petronas ride but frankie's not out there to make yamaha forget about other writers as a potential person to fill the factory seat so ultimately i think the franco is far faster than his results. This year have shown. I think he's still the top candidate based on a couple of factors his performance potential while healthy his composure. Both on and off the bike in the fact that he's done so well on older bikes. And we've seen what fabio has been able to do on the latest stuff. I think franco being so promising on the two thousand nineteen spec leaves definitely some upward potential there. If he is the writer that gets moved up to the factory squad alongside coiro. I'm john also wondered. If yamaha should settle for someone who's likely going to play second fiddle to bobbio and again he's talking about franken morbidelli here but i don't think that's necessarily going to be a decider because if in this is a big f- if fabio quarrel performs to plan and becomes this perennial challenger for the title and to marc marquez. While than pretty much any of yamaha's choices that they have at their disposal right now are gonna play second to him next year. And if fabio struggles. Well then frankie certainly has the potential to pick up the slack at least as good as a majority of the riders whose names have kicked around in relation to that factory seat in there having been very many names that have been thrown out there so in the end. Whoever it is that they pick. I think that the upside of the best writer yamaha can find is gonna way heavier on their decision than the potential downside of a guy. Like frankie if that makes sense to anybody but me moving on soggy. Wombat found something online. That i thought would have never been created. It's a punk. Song about valentino rossi. And it's not really bad either mean. The band definitely knows at least a little bit about motor. Gp or the guy who wrote it and it has all of the hallmarks of a classic ramones style punk song..
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"Not have signed a contract until patrol us was figured out and girl off certainly wouldn't have signed a contract until everything on the motor. Gp level is figured out. And i don't know if it's a very conservative plan being placed by omaha or if maybe there's some influence here from dorna trying to make sure that both series have viable talent moving forward that they're both developing their own stars so that they can help promote world superbike and make it feel more like an anchor series as opposed to just a development series for riders. Going off to mow gp. I don't know but keep in mind that even though we're at scott leo glue and girl off both have world superbike contracts. Those contracts are with yamaha so things are not necessarily cast in concrete that they aren't coming to motor. Gp that could have been a preliminary thing guaranteeing to both riders. That yes you're gonna have a ride on one of our bikes. So don't worry about it and we could end up finding out in the next couple of weeks or so that that contract is going to be transferred over to mow p. so i wouldn't one hundred percent. Close the door on either of those riders but as of right now it looks very unlikely that garrett girl off is going to be making the move to a patrol spike next year. Which as a fan of us riders. I find that very disappointing. But at least yamaha is one hundred percent behind him in his world superbike endeavors trying to get to the top step of the podium then eventually trying compete for a championship but with both of those riders off the board and in my opinion the jonathan ray thing maybe maybe not but probably on the maybe not side. Who does that leave for. Petronas seat or seats in two thousand twenty two while the rest of the petronas roster right now consists of jake dixon and chevere. Hey and motoo. And the durham bender. And john mcphee emoto three of those riders already in the petronas system. I would say that. Dixon sim probably has the best shot at one of those two seats if both are indeed available especially since that we get a british rider back on the grid. And that's something that i'm sure is a priority for dorna as well and along those same lines. Same lows name has been kicked around as a potential writer to make return in this case to motor. Gp although if i'm being perfectly honest here if that's what they're down to they want have british rider. Dorner wants them to have a british rider. They're looking at jake dixon. They're looking at sam. Lowes if those are the guys that they're looking at. I might actually consider scott reading. I mean his size may once again be a bit of a concern when trying to replicate the success that he's having in world superbike right now but the guy's worked as ass off to get back to the world stage and you got a british rider got moto. gp experience you know that he's got the mindset to get back on the bike. Ken all of that overcome his size. Disadvantage in the premier class. I don't know but if you want to have a british rider on the grid. And you've got dixon lows and scott reading kind of out there in front of you. I i would be tempted to go with writing on that one. And hey i say that having been a critic of some of writings shenanigans in the past when he was a motor. Gp but i'd be looking for a guy if i were yamaha. That has some potential upside that really wants to get on the bike and work hard. And i think that reading would maybe fit that bill better than the other guys. I don't know. Tell me what you think on facebook. Or i'm it now. Yamaha had already reportedly made a play to buy outright fernandez's contract told them to go pound sand which is unsurprising. And it looks like as part of that that casey him then went back to fernandez and said listen. Just ignore this yamaha noise if you really want to be a motor. Gp that badly will make room for you attack. Three and i don't know if that rumor is one hundred percent like verified or not. But i would not be surprised at all if we get an announcement here in the next week or two that raul fernandez and remmy gardner are both going to be making the jump from moto to up to the tech. Three squad. I see no reason why they wouldn't want to do that at this point. I'm but with raul fernandez off the board girl off out of the picture along with topography. Scotla glue technically. All of the sudden yamaha looks like they're kind of in a similar position to apprecia- last season they potentially have two seats to give. I don't know that they have to riders that are really solid prospects that are willing to take those two seats right now and that is really really odd. I mean i said last year when a whole bunch of riders turned down that apparently rod. I said that at some point in the future. I don't know win at that point. I didn't know win but at some point in the future some of these guys were going to seriously regret not having taken advantage of that opportunity to get on the ground floor with. This isn't a groundfloor opportunity. I mean look at what fabio was doing. Yes maverick fan. Y'all is struggling. But we know that's a mind set thing valentine rossi struggling. We'll of course he is. He's forty two years old. He's not going to be standing up on the top step of the podium every single race or even a couple of times a year and then you've got franken morbidelli who was clearly affected by his injury all the way back at loma and has been ever since then and so gives the impression that the bike is terrible but at the same time you've got fabio quad harare who is absolutely tearing it up this season on the same exact bike that rossi and vanilla leser on somebody who said no or signed another contract when they could have made a big push to get on that petronas bike. That is the factory specs bike. Somebody's going to regret that decision as well even more. Then some of those guys are going to regret the decision to not get on the appropriate because yamaha is a bike that could go out and get results. Fabio quattro showed that to us last year and franco. Morbidelli showed us that. Even the older spec stuff could go out and get results last year and this year so it is a bit of a perplexing situation and. I don't exactly know what's going to happen next if it's going to be. You know defaulting to jake dixon or chubby veer. Hey or been there mcphee or somebody like that or if some bigger name is gonna come along and say yeah..
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"All of the different parts all right so here. We go the rundown just about everything. We're gonna talk about on this episode of the show. We're going to start with some motor. Gp news and it is official cow. Crutch slow is coming back to the grid starting in austria for at least three races and he could be super valuable. The yamaha here but he won't be in. I'll tell you why. Then we'll talk about jonathan ray. The rumors have started up again that he could becoming to mow gp. I'll give you my opinion. We'll talk about what ray himself had to say. And then try to figure out the real situation is there but for garrett girl off it looks like motor. gp is not on the immediate horizon. He just signed a new world superbike contract. We'll talk about what that means. What yamaha's remaining rider options look like. Then we'll dive into your comments on danny pedrosa on franken morbidelli the army of dukakis. That will be on the grid next season and a whole lot more. Then we'll wrap up with some fixing video before moving onto part three of the moto week mid season review. We'll talk about some of the top riders emoto to and moto three. And if you're not a big fan of those series of you don't watch on a regular basis that's fine. There's still something in for you because some of these names in fact the majority of the names we're gonna talk about. You're going to get familiar with sooner or later in the premier class. You can find out about them now. And then you'll see him in the next year to all right so let's dive into the moto. Gp news and the big story of this off week on the verge of coming back to racing in australia. Cal crisslow is coming back to motor gp now permanently of course but with garrett karloff busy over in world superbike next weekend yamaha has officially made the call to cal to be their film rider in both australian rounds and then after that he will make a triumphant return to the british gp at silverstone which is going to be awesome for both him and the fans especially for the fans after that. Well it remains to be seen if cal's gonna continue on at arrogance since there's a gap there. Franken morbidelli is tentatively slated to return at misano. My guess is they're leaving. Aragon open at this point to give frankie kind of window in case it turns out he can come back early. Plus you never know. They may be leaving that arrogant weekend. Open for somebody else to get a shot on the bike with this constantly. Changing situation at yamaha and since world superbike is not an action arrogant weekend. Maybe we see gurkha off back. Maybe we see another world superbike rider coming over to take a test run on a petronas yamaha to see how they like it. Maybe you know if they want to leave their six and or seven world superbike championships behind to come to mow. Gp we'll talk about that in a minute. Though of my guess is that is why. They're leaving that arrogant weekend. Open to give them a little bit more flexibility when it comes to either franko coming back early or having somebody else step in or they could just in the end extent calcium by one more race and have him do four rounds instead of three but i can understand why the schedule is like it is because garrett girl off not available for the first austrian round. There's only a week between those two races. So if you're gonna put cal on the bike for the first one it just makes a lot of sense to have him also do the second race that way he can stay there. The bike settings don't change. They can continue to develop it from the first weekend to the second weekend. And then if you're yamaha you can't ask how to do both austrian rounds and then have him sit right after that for the british cheap that would just simply be mean to ask them to do to film races and then not allow him to do his home round when the bike is still open at that point so i think that's why they made the announcement initially and then we'll find out what's going to happen in aragon over these next three or four weeks. The new story start to develop now. The good news here for yamaha is now. They've got their official test rider. Getting some quality time in the saddle to evaluate the bike against the competition under race conditions. Very similar to what. Danny petrosa is doing next weekend with his wildcard. Start the bad news. Is that unlike the situation with pedrosa where he can you know. Take a shot at the latest bike and the latest equipment against the competition when it comes to cal while the motorcycle is going to be evaluating isn't gonna do yamaha much good since. He's filling in for franco morbidelli. That means he's got to ride frankie's bike. That of course is the a spec bike which is really just a heavily modified two thousand nineteen model so once again yamaha shoot themselves in the foot with the decision to be stingy with their current. Your bikes when it came to franken morbidelli. Because not only. Can frankie been getting results for them on the latest bike up until this point but more importantly with franco hurt. Since all the way back in france cal could have been helping them sort out that factory bike for the next three races. Which would hopefully then provide some benefit to fabio yaro any very detached. Maverick penola now with cal. Getting this three race stint if he does well. You know what's coming next. People are gonna start asking questions are going to say. Is this the test. Is this the precursor to a return to the grid. Full-time for cal. Next season with petronas. Well i don't think that's likely although i will say at this point we're getting so close to a legend series just on the regular bread with danny and cal coming back in the next race and valentino already out there. I say why stop. Now i mean let's callum petronas spike and on the other one. Well we could. Maybe i don't know. Put another thirty plus ryder. They just have to decide who. And they have a lot of riders to choose from me and andre the ceo. So he's very eligible bachelor right now. I'm sure if they went to her hayler enzo. He jumped at the chance to get back on the bike. Even though he's i'm sure very out of shape although maybe they could stray outside of motor. Gp because the rumors have officially begun once again for the fifteenth time about a multi. Time world superbike champion. That's right jonathan ray. Could he be headed to petronas omaha in twenty twenty to think about that. I could have cal and jonathan race side by side. It would be like the thirty plus club. All they have to do is find a way to keep valentine rossy. They put him on the maverick fan. Y'all is by there you go. I mean think about that for a minute. Their.
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"Gonna sit out for a year no way. I mean after watching. What happened with. Andre david also so far in watching what happened with where he lorenzo. He's not gonna sit out at least not with the serious intent to come back embrace in two thousand twenty three. He won't be relevant at that point. I mean we've already seen that happened to multiple riders now so if it probably is his only option for next season. Then it's going to be one or two choices. He the racist for them. Where he pulls a casey stoner any bills before you even turns twenty seven and obviously the odds are strongly on him wanting to continue racing. Which means a really a bud. You never know. I mean if maverick is feeling particularly moody maybe he just watched a bunch of videos of lynn jarvis or something. Then i wouldn't totally rule out the ladder of him. Saying you know what you're gonna throw my hands in the air. I'm done i don't like the media anymore. I don't like the circus anymore. I don't like you know trying to battle with my manufacturer anymore. I'm just gonna take my money and go sit on a beach somewhere and again. I'm not saying. I think that's going to happen. I think he's going to raise for appropriate but there is that one little percent of a chance. Maybe he draws a line in the sand digs its heels in and says no for better for worse. Take him balling going home or go the world superbike or something like that. I'm alright so that does it for the motor. Gpo news now. Let's move on to some of your comments and obviously a few of you wanted to talk about maverick vanilla and we'll get back around to him in a minute. I i wanna start with chris over on facebook who looking at the second half of the season in light of the first part of our midseason review kind of ask the general question of. Hey who is your favorite right now in the championship. Fabio charro or johann zarco and. He wasn't just asking me. He was asking everybody which is good. Because i really don't have a preference per se. I just wanted to be an exciting battle down to the wire. I wanna see valencia and import amount. Make 'em whatever other race is at the end of the year Make a real difference in the championship. I would love to have it come down to the final lap but that being said i absolutely think it would be a bigger surprise a much. Bigger surprise is zarko. Wanted for sure. Satellite team a writer. That was one hundred percent on the outs barely hung onto asleep moto. Gp by pretty much sucking up his pride and going to eventually it will be quite the story for sure and not just quite the story for johann zarco but for do too because they throw him a lifeline. They did him a favor by giving him that seat. And right now he's paying the back of course who knows what's going to happen when we get down to the end of the season if the factory writers are involved how that's all going to work out but if it truly does come down zarco and fabio quarrel and zarko where the win the championship. Not only would he be vindicated but do cardi would look like geniuses to now of course the flip side of that coin is fabio winning in his first. Try on the factory team. That would be huge. That would immediately peg him as a potential challenger or successor to marc marquez. Atop the sport but it would certainly be less of a surprise overall for a factory yamaha rider to win the championship especially one with wins under his belt. Already both riders. They'll do for me carry longer term questions about consistency into the second half based on their recent history. Because no matter how awesome. They've looked so far. There is a chance that either one of those riders or both really could stumble in the second half so that it also means there's an opportunity for some other writers to enter the fray potentially as well and not just including both of the factory. Do kati riders. But i would there. Miguel olivera in there. And maybe even someone like joanne mir as well and of course we'll talk about a majority of those riders coming up here when we get to the second half of the show. I'm all right so now. Let's talk about some silly season stuff. Tim over on. Facebook said that a dutch website kind of added some fuel to the fire started by kevin schwantz last week or the week before that suggesting some sort of defacto swap between yamaha and suzuki where maverick fan. Y'all as woodhead home to the star team and then alex rin's would vacate the seat for vanilla is to come in by making the move over to yamaha taking over the petronas spike. They created by franken morbidelli after he gets promoted to the factory team now. The dutch site said that they kept an eye on maverick the entire him weekend and notice that there were multiple occasions where he wandered down the paddock and was seen having serious conversations with some of the people at zucchini and they thought not a whole lot of it at the time. But then in the wake of the kevin schwantz suggestion if auto. Hey maybe there's something to this. And i will admit that. Yeah it does. Spur on some interest here in certainly some speculation but i still see that kind of scenario as one. That's very unlikely the play out mostly because there are so many moving parts. I mean you've gotta get to manufacturers into xueqian yamaha. Three modo gp teams into factory level riders to all agree to the same set of terms. And what the span of. Maybe a month or month and a half. That's hard enough to begin with. And i think the biggest roadblock here is the fact that the relationship between suzuki and rennes is in the bab one. I mean we haven't even really seen any friction. at all. between suzuki and alex rennes. let alone. The kind that we've seen not just this season but over the past couple of seasons with maverick venezuela's in yamaha. So where's the motivation on that side to break a contract early you know. And that's not a one sided thing. Either i mean in that scenario. It's not like suzuki picks up the phone and says to alex runs. Hey you've been traded the maha. I mean it's not a football team. You know both sides would have to agree that this is the best thing to do for their respective futures. Just maverick in yamaha did. And because of that. I'm not exactly sure if i'm alex. Rinse why. I would willingly agreed to leave a factory team to go to a yamaha satellite bike. That has a grand total of one podium in eighteen combined races this year. So it's good for everybody except for alex rennes. But that's not good enough. It has to be good for everybody across the board to get all of those respective parties to agree. So well that's might be the perfect one for maverick vanilla. He might be all in on that. I if i'm being perfectly honest i think rizzoli over petronas would love to have alex rings on board you know they could easily get back to that place. Patrol was at in twenty twenty. But unfortunately i think this is yuki side would be the hold up making something like that happen. Because i don't think suzuki really wants to break contract with a rider that they really have no serious problem with and more importantly. I don't think that alex rene's is going to willingly. Demoted himself. Just to make maverick. Penola is happy now at the end the next year..
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"Goes and when you think about that. And then you think about somebody who's had a career as long as say valentino rossi or the length of time in success that marc marquez and honda have had together it really makes you appreciate what those writers have been able to do because even for somebody as talented and i think we can all recognize the maverick vanilla is supremely talented even for a writer that talented. It's hard to stay on top both in terms of performance in terms of desireability. Come contract season so for guys like that to be so good for so long and so sought after by. Everybody certainly something to appreciate. Being one of those riders. Valentino rossi well. The manufacturers may have been happy with them over the years. Dorna certainly been happy with him over the years and the fans while the fans. Love valentino rossi. Ferrari well appear lean. Not so much. Actually they do love the doctor. It's just their love appears to be conditional law because ferrari announced that. They'll be racing in the brand new hyper car or ellum. H class allama. Which is the successor of ellen. P one as top class and typically the source of the overall race winner at loma the interesting thing though during this announcement the head of gt racing program. A guy named antonello coletta was asked. If maybe maybe valentine rossi could be considered as one of their drivers seeing as valley tested a ferrari f one car multiple times in came very very close to making the jump to f one with ferrari in the mid two thousands of a coletta put that potential rumor the bed immediately saying flat out to this reporter that rossi is tool yes too old to begin the training. He can compete in the top class at loma. It's a young man's game. And maybe valentino could play around with the other old guys in one of the gt classes in a ferrari at that legendary race. Now those comments sounded kinda harsh and the internet certainly picked up on that co posted a couple of places around the web. But if we're being honest here coletta out of line. I mean ferraris. Entry lama won't be ready until two thousand twenty three and this is something that the headlines don't say and at that point. Valentino is going to be forty four years old and there have there absolutely have been drivers of that age that have won the overall title at lamont. But we're talking about guys like tom. Kristensen and derek bell some of the best ever in the twenty four hours not somebody running their first ever race and it is much more common for the older drivers in the field to compete in the gt classes where they can do quite well so i don't think that was necessarily meant as a slight. I think that coletta was just being realistic. I don't think he was trying to offend so. Hopefully the vr forty six fans aren't outside of his house with torches and pitchforks like it's marquez. In two thousand fifteen or something All right let's move on from the motor. Gp news to some of your comments about said news and we will start with peter fifty-eight kerry who brought up something. I already alluded to earlier in the show. Maverick vinnie all as an suzuki. Because he brought up kevin schwantz rumor slash comments slash wishful thinking that the blockbuster of twenty twenty one season for maverick fan. Y'all is was only going to continue with schwantz. Imagining a scenario where bonilla's heads home to suzuki for next season. While alex rinse goes to yamaha taking the patrol a seat vacated by franken morbidelli squad so kind of a swap between suzuki and yamaha. Now i think it's very important to point out here because that headline got picked up in plastered all over everything to on the internet and i think we have to understand that when we take that comment in context that it was speculation on kevin schwantz part. Now he does have an inside line to suzuki. But that wasn't coming from suzuki through kevin schwantz to us. That was just something. Kevin said he thought would be a great plan. Maverick and y'all would obviously be on board with that too. But like i said earlier. Just don't think it's going to happen. I mean yes rinsed struggling but his relationship with zucchini is still positive. As far as we know and it would have to get a lot worse for both sides to say. Hey let's just go our separate ways and you go somewhere else and we're going to get maverick than y'all as and then the other thing to consider here when you think about a rumor like that is once again that is struggling im- while it might be interesting to think that's zouqi called up yamaha and said. Hey let's have a party where everybody just throws her keys in the ball and then whatever set you get out. That's who you go home with. It doesn't really work like that yamaha would have to be. Just as interested in alex rennes s. Zouqi potentially would be imagine y'all s and so not only is yamaha involved here but petronas petronas would have to be interested in a writer that like we just said has struggled with bad results in injuries this season. And they already have that going on right now with valentino rossi and frankie morbidelli. I don't think that they would be jumping over themselves. To try and combine those two guys worst characteristics in one writer next season so for that reason to. I'm not convinced that that kind of deal is going to happen. I think that rans really needs to do some work to get healthy and start getting results by the end of the year so that he can go out look for his own deal. Whether it's with hire somebody else after that. But i really don't see zookeeping the type of organization that would kick a guy when they're down and say okay you're sitting out and you haven't done much so screw you. We're going to go with maverick. Neal is i think that everybody involved there. Wait until twenty. Twenty three to make that kind of deal and since we're on the topic of guys just discussed in the news. Let's move onto sh news bart bar. Who posted a link to an article discussing. Whether the aforementioned valentino rossi will indeed retire this year or not this article from the site that i'm not gonna mention because of their propensity towards click baby titles which kind of drive me nuts. A little bit But they cited the controversy surrounding vr. Forty six as a reason that maybe valentino might be compelled to stay with his presence on the bike then helping entice a sponsor to enable the team to run next year and while does do baby titles on the regular in this one definitely bordered on that. In this case there actually is a topic of discussion. Here there is something inside that nutshell. And while i think that valentino rossi's presence alone could bail the team out if necessary. It just don't think it's going to be necessary in the end and for those who aren't familiar. There is a major lack of clarity surrounding the sponsorship situation. At vr forty six heading in the next year because vr forty six announced that the saudi oil company aramco was going to be the title sponsor. In fact they've already named the team aramco. Vr forty six racing although there is not a website to that effect quite yet. The problem here though is that one of the main officials at aramco who was at the dutch. Tt hanging out with the suzuki guys not with the beer. Forty six people who were do coty for that matter. That this aramco official said i don't know anything about a deal with valentino rossi and vr forty-six and we're not.
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"So maybe miguel is just pointing it out or maybe who knows a little stick. A little poke maverick's direction. A buddy it is good one way or the other. I think to see yama at least attempting to get a rider like miguel. Who's upside is just huge right now and it would have been the spectacular get for yamaha and in my opinion one of the few writers maybe even the only rider that will be worth risking losing franken morbidelli in the end to go out and get but even with this twenty twenty two contract. You can be absolutely certain that. Miguel olivera is going to be a hotly pursued writer in next year silly season providing that he keeps riding the way he has been the past few rounds on that new. Ktm chassis never pretty good feeling that he will now the majority of you think it is a virtual lock. The franco morbidelli is going to be the rider that gets that factory yamaha seat next season. But jamie not convinced yet. Jamie's not quite sure that franco is going to get that factory seat in the end pointing to the fact that yamaha wasn't willing to change their plan for him. Despite the fact that he won three races and finished second overall last season still insisting instead that he soldier on with an older bike while the obviously waning valentine rossi on the other side of his garage got petronas new equipment instead now. A lot of that had to do with the fact that rossi is while valentino rossi. Obviously and be. The valentino is contracting directly to yamaha. Where morbidelli isn't but yeah it still has serious shades of the johann zarco situation and they were fine. Yamaha was allowing zarko to leave. So maybe the same will be true in the end with frankie although i would think that especially with olivera off the table now that there options have kind of put them in a box where you know that familiar writer in franken morbidelli may not seem like the most mysterious most exciting choice. But certainly it's the ryder that's available. That has the most potential. And honestly i think if yamaha's thinking about it that way that we rather go outside because we want a more exciting choice for that bike they're gonna lose out because morbidelli absolutely has the potential to be as good or almost as good as fabio quarrel. But i think that. Dj has the best solution by far for yamaha in twenty twenty two two words who are hey lorenzo. That's what i'm talking about. Bring it on man. I'm one hundred percent on board with that plan for no other reason but the drum. I don't even care if lorenzo rides that well. Although i'm curious to see how he would do after sitting out for so long but i'm more one in back for what he says before during and after around rather than what he's going to do in the bike so i'm absolutely on board with that i mean they've got fabio quattro road to go after a championship. Let's have some fun. Bring her lorenzo. Back convince valentino rossi. The stick around for another year on his own. Do khadi and let those to go head to head for the old guys championship. Hell why not get lovie in there to put him on the appropriate. Let all three of them go after it and then they can play for the seniors tour. They can win a trophy of a guy in a rocking chair. I'm sure asia and can make an awesome trophy of an old dude wearing your helmet and a rocking chair that we could give to the winner of that competition. All right so there was shockingly some non yamaha stuff. Believe it or not that you guys wanted to talk about. We'll start wish. News bart who linked to an article confirming that enables dini will be getting a twenty twenty one desma ditching next year. So he'll be getting a one year old bike with christine. As opposed to his current two year old offering out of it still remains to be seen how all of the do khadi offerings are going to be handed out. Obviously the factory guys are going to get twenty twenty two bikes. And i cannot imagine that. The pre mac. Riders won't also get the same equipment since they have it this year with vr forty-six signing policy abbadi confirmed that valentino. Rossi's team will be getting one quote full factory bike with support as well as twenty twenty one bike and that would make five current year. Do qadis on the grid would assume. Then that at that point the rossini team would get to twenty twenty one bikes won for best seaney as announced and the other fabio the san antonio since at the end of the year. They're gonna have plenty of 2021 bikes to hand out. So it's hard to imagine the degen san antonio who's contracted to rossini would end up with better equipment than best ya who's contracted directly to khadi and that's good. That means that no bikes on the grid should be older than one year old next season. That means better opportunities and better competition as a result epstein didn't suicide which is a statement of a username for sure Lit up with his fantasy leagues score after ass in one thousand one hundred and sixty points top two percent of all teams not in the league but in the entire game. Now we haven't talked about fantasy leagues for a long time. So we'll do that either on next week show or the episode after that one and by the way. If you've just started listening recently and you don't know this already we've got to fantasy leagues this year One is on sports deck. The other one is on the official motor. gp website..
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"But took them to a championship last year. Could it be the perfect storm. I don't know. I'm not holding my breath but i wouldn't totally rule it out either. I think a lot of it has to do with how maverick and probably get along. Because that like we've seen over mavericks entire motogp career seems to be critical to performance on the track. Now while there was a decent amount of discussion about the maverick daniela's side of this equation. I think even more people were interested in the yamaha. Half and who's going to replace maverick next year and how that's all going to work out whether that rider goes directly to the factory team or if they land up us instead. Dj posted a pair of polls over them. Read it about. Who should get that maverick than y'all as seed and who should get the free petronas bike and the vast majority of respondents myself included said the franken morbidelli makes the most sense for yamaha at the factory level. Fifty seven out of the seventy people who responded said yep frankie's your guy doesn't matter if he's been off a little bit this year and of course he's injured as well now that of course then beg the question of who should take over frankie seat. That's a question that sh- news bart also asked and is separate poem. Read it and i found all of those results from both polls quite interesting because garrett girl off got the highest vote total if you combine both polls and then second to him was raul fernandez. Now don't get mad at me. Because i actually voted for fernandez in both of those polls but it was all based on current potential and there is no question that role fernandez is tearing it up motoo and has all the makings of a really good modo. gp rider. His upside is really really big. And if yamaha kengo after him they absolutely should try to do so now could they get him to sign a contract. I'm thinking no i mean. Ktm is going to keep a pretty tight grip on their youngster. Even if it means changing their plan for him last minute and moving fernandez up the tech three after all next season because of that. Because it's going to be so hard for yamaha to give fernandez. yes i think. Fernandez is the best option yamaha. But i think the garrett girl off is a far more realistic target for yamaha. And i think that's why so many people voted for him and i'm perfectly fine with that although in the interest of full disclosure. I'm a little bit biased. When i say that. Because obviously i want to see the american writer on the motor. Gp grade. And i'm not the only one Care cpr. skull had forty six alien night. Neil racing armchair jump rage all rooting for the us rider to get the spot on the grid and he might not be the only country that gets brand new representation on the motor gp grid next year. I'm racing armchair said something very similar to tattooed raven who thinks that there is a good possibility that valentino rossi retires that we could see both garrett girl off and jake dixon who's currently on a petronas bike emoto to both get the call to the petronas motor. Gp team seeing as both would fill preferred slot for dohrn. You'd get an american and you get a british rider back on the grid now. Thinking of it that way yes. There is risk in bringing both of those riders to moto g performance. Wise for sure but like tattooed raven was saying if girl off gets one of those seats and rides. Well then it may make yamaha take. Us riders more seriously and the same is true when it comes to jake. Dixon and i would argue that everybody in the paddock would take them more seriously now. British riders have a lot less stigma attached to them right now than a us. Ryder does. but that isn't important thing. I mean what tattooed raven was saying is a very good point that before you can get over that hump before you can get manufacturers to take routers from a particular country more seriously somebody has to be able to step up and take you back to last year when joe roberts was asked to get on the apprecia- and he said no in one of the main reasons that he gave for saying though was that he didn't want his passport to get him on the grid and i understand that attitude. I think it's admirable to not want to be handed something because of where you're from you on it because of how you're riding how you're performing but at the same time. If joe roberts was on that probably right now then maybe he would be proving to everybody else from the paddock. That you better take riders from the us more seriously and actually helping garrett girl off get the omaha gig so yes on one hand. Joe is being very you know noble by not wanting to you know. Skip ahead in line. But he was also giving up the opportunity to open the door for other writers. And that's what garrett girl off may be able to do and to a lesser extent. Jake dixon because like i said. I think we all know that. British riders are really really. Good world. Just needs to rediscover that there are some. Us riders out there. That are really good as well. Now as far as petronas's concerned. I could see that possibility happening with both girl off and dixon because they're both in house options. I mean girl off. Sorry working directly with yamaha world superbike dixon directly with petronas motoo. And i'm pretty sure that dorner would toss in some extra financial assistance for the team if they made room for both not. That patrol is struggling to find cash right now but there is another question here especially when it comes to garyk girl off and that's whether a world superbike transplant. Even when that's been there a short of a time as garrett has can successfully make the jump to mow g. p. and that is definitely something that will.
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"And somebody that i think would be a steel for yamaha. I mean if they were going to risk losing morbidelli by putting somebody other than him on that factory team. I think olivera will be one of the writers that would make it worth the risk because you get a young talented guy with a lot of potential. We know we can win races. We know you can get the most out of the bike. That'd be pretty captivating. If i were yamaha. I just don't think the ktm would let it happen but technically he is available so it's got to be out there on the radar. I'm right so those are the possibilities. I think the franklin morbidelli is probably gonna be moved up to the factory squad. And then i'm not quite sure what's going to happen at petronas if i had to rank the other possibilities when it comes to petronas realistically because i think the ktm plays a big role enroll fernandez. I'm not ranking them. In terms of talent necessarily potential upside but in the order. I think that they're most likely to move into that petronas. Right of the guys we talked about. I would say scott leo. Glue girl off them. Fernandez and other options. I think that's a realistic way looking at what might happen there. I'm all right so the last thing that i want to talk about some other rumors that were kicked around. You know with valentino rossi. Is he going to come back to the factory squad. I think we've put that to bed. He's not going to do that. But is this announcement by maverick fan. Y'all is opening up an extra slot at yamaha. They didn't know they were going to have. Does that. affect what valentine rossi dozen twenty twenty two because right now. The perception with his performance level is that he's blocking spot for an upcoming yamaha rider. And so that's why he should willingly step aside to allow some young talent to come in and help develop the program and move them forward. Now with maverick out of the way they could move frankie up and still have an open seat epa terminus in twenty twenty two. So does all of this effect valentino rossi's career decision whether he stays or goes next season now. The doctor says no. It doesn't have any effect. And you know what i believe him. I mean don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that valets decision is going to be based entirely on performance. Like he's suggesting. I think he'll consider things like sponsorship deals. What dorna wants is going to be very influential. I mean it's possible that you know as part of the deal for vr forty-six to come to moto gp. That valentino has to agree to race for x. number of years because let's face it him. Being in the sport is good for its popularity and also at yamaha wants based on what his contract says. So i think that all of those things plus how much fun he's having on. The bike are going to factor in. But of all the things that i think are going to play and his decision. I don't think the fact that there's an extra free bike yamaha is really gonna have much to do with. I mean the idea that he doesn't have to vacate that petronas ride. I think all those other things will come first in the decision making process before we get to that all right so that does it for this episode of the program. What do you think do you think is the best spot for maverick finales. Who do you think. More importantly because a lot of people have already expressed their opinion on maverick going to affiliates. So i guess really the more important question that i would love to know your opinion on. Who's gonna take that factory yamaha seat and if it's franken morbidelli who's going to go to petronas so you know what to do. Facebook read it. Lemme know what you think all right. So what's coming up on the next episode you. You're coming up. You're going to be the star because we're going to focus on some of your comments from the dutch t t and the premier class heading into the summer break because we talked only about the vanilla situation and all of the associated teams and riders. There was actually more stuff that happened last week. And more things you had opinions on so we're going to highlight some of those on next week's show plus we'll follow up with some more. Your thoughts on the maverick and the yamaha situation specifically who you think should take that seat. Of course we'll also talk about any of the latest moto gp news. That's coming up in a whole lot more now. I don't think you're going to have to wait until next week. I wanna do a comment show getting into or sometime during the weekend because we also have some great picks and video. I wanna discuss as well so stay tuned for that in fact. I don't want you to miss a single episode of the program. Since i'm trying to give you extras right now during the break. So if you haven't done it yet. I would subscribe to the show. You can do that on apple podcasts. Google podcasts speaker stitcher.
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"Now there is always an exception to the rule. And to- proc could very well be that exception. If i were yamaha i would give it a try. I mean they could always make a deal where he comes to petronas for one year and if he doesn't like it then he can go straight back to world superbike. They'll save a seat forum. I mean because he's in house. There are many different ways they could structure the deal to make it work best for him and i think it's worth pursuing it selfishly. I want it to happen. Because i just think it's fun to say 'to proc road scott leo glue on a regular basis Another writer whose name was kicked around immediately after the rumors came out on. Saturday is another world superbike guy and one that was currently filling in for franken morbidelli last weekend and asset. That's the american garrett girl off and his name very likely will be on the list because after all he's been yamaha's goto over the past five or six months when it comes to a film writer he was gonna fill in for valentine rossy. Didn't need to in the end. But then he filled in for franken morbidelli. will that translate straight to a motor. Gp gig well. I'm not really sure. And i don't think that's going to happen with the factory team. I think possibly with petronas if frankie moves up mean obviously there's potential there or else yamaha wouldn't be giving him these opportunities. He's really been digging hard and trying to learn. In the limited time he's had on a motor. Gp bike and i think that door no would kick him resources to help make it happen to help facilitate in one way or another because it's very important to them to have a us rider on the grid. And so if there's somebody who has the talent level like eric girl loft does then. I think that they would help encourage and help move that long. I would love to see this. That's a bit of a home or comment on my part. But i will admit that there is a pretty long line of other candidates in front of garett girl off so i'm not gonna hold my breath at this point just going to be hopeful that it's somebody that yamaha seriously considers. There are some other writers though that may seem a little bit unconventional at first. Those riders guys like calcutt low current yamaha test rider. Or how about andrea david. Co so now over them read it. Diogo sewri posted a linked to an article mentioning v as a possibility for yamaha. And i'm gonna go ahead and lump cal. Crutch slow into this discussion as well and you know with a bevy of young talent out there. Some of which we've already mentioned. It would be very easy to dismiss both of those riders. But i wouldn't entirely mean as jug bridge replied to diogo. There are some reasons. The yamaha may choose to go the route of the old guy or bringing the old guy back because remember next year is silly season market is going to be way bigger than this one. A lot of riders coming off a two year contracts next year so a veteran like cal or dobie could fill the spot nicely for yamaha and a pinch and then they could turn it around and use it to their advantage and make that seat more about development. That's easy to do when you've got a guy like fabio on the other side of the garage going after wins and a championship Cal would put a british rider back on the grid just like garrett girl off that something that dorner would get behind because they want a british rider back on the greatest like they want a. Us rider on the grid and dovy would give them a very popular very marketable writer and they can have a bit of a reunion to close out his career. So yeah i by the rumors with dovy that at least there's some thought that's going on there because i honestly don't think either one of those guys are that far fetched but only only as a stopgap one year solution and even with a temporary move like that. Yeah you gain options in the next silly season cycle. But like miller's tasker was saying earlier you also vastly increase your chances that you drive away. Franken morbidelli because of it and you need to be prepared for that. You need to have a real game plan if you're going to do that now. Ultimately i think that racing armchair is right going with an older rider. Light cow like dovy doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Although i would add unless there is something specific that yamaha things they could gain from that one season whether it be in development sense. Or maybe you know. They think they can get joe amir or alex. Rinse or somebody like that. If they just wait one more season otherwise yeah move on get a young rider somebody in there to either push fabio and challenge him or it'd be ready to step up if there's a stumble on fabulous us part and on a bit of a side note since we're talking about andrea video so a little bit here tattoo driven asked if dole the ultimately made the right decision dragging his feet with appropriate therefore opening the door the maverick and maybe encouraging him to go explore some other options. I don't know. I don't know if he did himself a favour or not because probably it was clearly his best shot to return to the motor. Gp grid. They absolutely wanted him for next season before they knew that maverick was available. So i think that andrea reduces his chances significantly overall of getting back on the grid but if he had some conversations with yamaha that we are privy to. Well then maybe. He's being slide like a fox. Maybe he was being coy with apprecia- because he knew the maverick was about to quit and that probably will really want him and then maybe he would encourage appropriate against him so he can slide in behind. Maybe take the petronas seat or the factory. Yamaha seat for twenty twenty two. I know i'm stretched ended out there pretty far. But he got to explore every option in a weird situation like this. And then mr t. Brought up one more ryder. I had honestly not considered yet. What about me lavera. I know i mentioned him earlier. He's not yet signed off his current one year. Deal like brad bender already did. Could he be on the radar. And that's a genuinely intriguing idea..
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"When it comes down to it we talked about this earlier and joins arco. Might be ahead of violas in line as well being the lead. Primack kreider the second thing. I'm not really sure that nato the team boston bureau forty six is going to be too interested in spending a ton of money to put maverick above the vr. Forty six academy riders. That are coming up. I mean rossi doesn't seem to interested in making an exception for himself in that respect. So why would he. Then do. It for maverick manolas and even with that saudi oil money coming in the salary and the personnel needed to cater to a rider of maverick stature. May not be something they're willing to do financially and i think that those reasons plus some others of course are one of the reasons why that rumor seems to be fading very very fast after it came on strong in the wake of the announcement. But let's talk about some other organizations to. Let's not take anybody off the board here. Let's look ktm because technically ktm have not resigned. Miguel of area for twenty twenty two and we definitely know that there is a tech three seat up for grabs as well when it comes to tech. Three mavs not gonna do that. Especially given the team's performance this season the factory team could be an option but there are a couple of things standing in the way there as well number one k. experience was johann. Zarco is gonna make them very very gun shy on another moody yamaha rider coming in with some pedigree that thinks they can do wonders with their machine and number two he would have to take the place of miguel olivera and right now. A lavar is one of the hottest drivers in the sport. And i do not see. Ktm giving up that potential for the unknown. That would be maverick coming into their organization. Uninitiated then. We've got honda would never even yell as ride alongside mark marquess. I seriously doubt it He didn't like playing second fiddle to the valentina rossi and mark very arguably has a much tighter grip on honda than the doctor did on yamaha in two thousand seventeen two thousand eighteen. Plus you look at how we're he'll lorenzo completely crashed and burned on that bike. I'm not sure that maverick would even be interested in taking that chance if it were presented to them. I think it would listen. I just don't think he would do it. I'm m while police boggles results. Definitely aren't there. I think their relationship is still plenty good enough that they aren't gonna have lorenzo repeat in the contract department where spago leaves after one season and that would be necessary to make room for somebody like mark And then when it comes to suzuki. I think they're perfectly happy. With show mir the guys at defending champion and alex rinse who yes has had tons of terrible terrible luck this year and some of itself made texting while riding his bicycle. But i still think that suzuki's very happy with both those riders and they're both going to be highly sought after next year because they're young. They've got plenty of upside left. So i think suzuki is going to be definitely satisfied to keep what they have seen. Both of their riders are currently under contract right now. So apprecia- is by far the most likely destination for maverick next season. But just as big of a question who's coming in the omaha and who's going to get that factory ride and that question is a little bit more open ended for me. So let's talk about some of the candidates and talk about some of the rumors the first one i want to get out of the way real fast. Valentina roc- coming back to the factory squad. I think the answer here is a resounding no not gonna happen i. He'll be forty three years old next year. The performance isn't there and even if yamaha went to the doctor and asked him. I don't think he would say yes at this point it's not gonna happen. You just cross them off the list altogether instead. Let's head to franken morbidelli. And what a terrible terrible time to have a major injury but still in my opinion. Frankie is the top candidate for this factory job. He came into his own last year. With three victories second overall in the championship and when it comes to demeanor that is what yamaha needs right. Now he is the exact opposite of in yala. Nothing seems to phase me always seems to have a positive outlook. Even when he saddled with an old bike and speaking of that his performance last year has finally convinced frankie that he deserves a factory level bike and yamaha were already willing to give him the top spec stuff next year. Epa terminus now. Franco's contract is with the satellite team. It's not with yamaha and it is a two year deal that he's in the middle of so there are some details to work out there but they're really minor ones. It's nothing they couldn't get around but with this seat open and that rider waiting in the wings. This is really a moment of reckoning for yamaha. What is their opinion of. Morbidelli is morbidelli to them going to be the next fabio quattro or the next johann zarco meaning. Are they going to move them up. Because they know they'll be able to keep them if they do or are they going to not move him up im- risk letting him walk. Because as miller's tassie girl says if morbidelli doesn't move up he's pretty much gone at the end of next season although there is one exception and we'll talk about that in a moment so following in the footsteps of coiro seems primed to make this move and by moving him up then a slot opens a patrols and that becomes a much better fit for a few of the other riders. That were about to talk about on this list. And the first of those guys raul fernandez who is supremely talented but also supremely committed to casey m a so much so that he's already said multiple times he's willing to remain emoto to just so he can stay on a rebel. Ktm bike next year. And he's got a healthy buyout clause in his contract as well that yamaha would have to pay off if they were able to entice him away. Looking at the future role fernandez would be an incredible get for yamaha. I mean i would do that. Move all day long. Even if he wanted the factory bike i would really truly consider putting him straight on the factory by. He's that good. But i think kate sam will fight against yamaha every step of the way they pursue this and i think that we're all would also probably be best for petronas seat not only because he's only run part of the year motoo so far But by doing it that way you get will and you get to keep franken morbidelli by moving him up so the best of both worlds and speaking of young talent that could be a potential candidate for petronas or maybe even the factory team although that might be a bit of a stretch topa scotla glue has got to be on yamaha's list. The twenty four year old has been tearing it up in world superbike. The season's just twenty points behind the monolith that is jonathan ray. He's got talent for days now right now. He says he likes his spot in world. Superbike and i can kind of understand why he says that because right now. He's looking like the heir-apparent to jonathan ray. And johnny hasn't done so bad for himself in superbikes making that his career once he found the right place and what scotla glue seems to found or be finding the right place but the other thing here is that multiple riders have gone from motor. Gp to world superbike with success. The very few have made a successful switch coming from superbikes to the premier class With cow crutch slow probably being the best..