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"But i would say that his body position is more of a hybrid of past and present writers. He doesn't sit up quite as far as someone like colin edwards. Who was really for me. The last of the old school riders in terms of style. But i would compare him to like dany pedrosa especially early dani pedrosa in all sort of been speaks. He's got a little bit of that elbows flare going on there. He gets his chin right up over the windscreen and canada shoves his elbows out. It's very ben speeds like you know. Dami probably would've looked exactly the same way. Except he was too short to get his elbows out there too far And of course that style worked out pretty well for daily petrosa. So i would say it's still possible to be fast to mow. Gp without your shoulders dragging on the pavement. He certainly proof of that. A by lester wondered how hard it is for. Young riders to learn silverstone and the reason that violator brought that up is because of our discussion on the pre ratio where there are so many writers who really didn't have any or hardly any moto. Gp experience at silverstone because so many races have been cancelled over the past couple of years there. And i mean joe amir we talked about this on the pre ratio. His last race at silverstone last weekend was emoto three some that prompted him to wonder how well young riders learned to track like silverstone where they may be having seen it hardly at all and mapped it out in numbers and of course i love numbers And the numbers you posted are kind of interesting because there's a wide variety of results. Some of them not surprising that guys like mark and valentino danny petrosa dwell in their first ever ride around silverstone. Although i'm assuming that you may have just done entire british gp which means donnington as well before two thousand ten for a few of those guys because rossi and producer they rode their first british gp at donnington But there are fair amount of riders. They're more recent ones that did start their motor. Gb career at silverstone with middling or even bad results. And i think that would be characteristic of a lotta tracks. I think if you met that out for every track you would find a similar variety of some writers doing really well and some writers not so much. It's really far. More of a tossup for a motive gp writer their first time around especially when a motogp bike because it varies by rider and their method and some riders just seemed to get along better with some tracks and some have very unique way of learning a new track. The first time they get to it. I mean some of you may know that. Ben speeds for instance he used to look at attract map and then figure out. What kind of animal look like so phillip island for instance looked like a kitten lying on. Its back so then he would go out there and just visualize writings. motorcycle around. The giant kitten laguna seca. T. rex going wrong and so on and so forth all right. Those of you who've been around long enough to know exactly what i'm talking about but those who don't all you have to do is go to youtube and type in the ben speeds method and then enjoy by the way that's the second been speeds reference in like the last three minutes. Anyway all right. Let's get back to the race here. andreas asked a very simple question about the marc marquez. Where he martina incident which we didn't talk about too much on the post ratio. What would have happened. If that had been joined. Zarko that run into where. Hey martine instead of marquess. And i think that's a fair point because if that had been showing zarco with his history and his reputation absolutely bene- penalty in the end. But i do think that race direction absolutely would have announced to everybody that the incident was under review at the very minimum. But we talked about this the couple of weeks ago. I think it was the more famous the more successful. You are the more leeway. Get especially if you don't have that reputation that somebody likes arco has and that's not a knock against mark saying that he did something shady and got away with it. I mean he himself admitted after the race he messed up and he was way too fast into the corner. Not expecting that martin would be there some. It was a mistake. But if that is arco way more of a chance that there's some sort of response from the stewards at the very least to review. Maybe some sort of penalty in the next round. Which of course would have been this weekend at aragon as side note. Andreas also loved the fact that there were six manufacturers in the top six slots he says. Hey that's good stuff for the show and you're absolutely right. It is good for competition and it certainly makes things more fun for me to talk about for all of us to talk about when there are more riders capable of finishing at the front. Battling for a podium. Us biotech said that he was pretty sure. The petco bag is disappointing. Showing it silverstone was probably down to the tires. He got an alpha octane. Said the petco. One hundred percent agree posting link where he said that the retiree got was the compound he thought was best the soft but the particular tire he was issued by michelin was not good and the bike was sliding from him in the corners He then pointed to some other riders and other instances where the michelin's have been inconsistent saying that. That was the cause of jack. Miller's problems in austria and valentino rossi and silverstone also complained. Obviously the tires aren't all complete. Junk right i mean someone won the race and that someone believe had soft- software attire three guys finished on the podium and none of those guys were complaining about tire so michelin can make a tire. That's capable of performing well making it to the end of the race but that doesn't mean that consistency can be an issue here and the problem is that's an issue that's really hard to track down because if there are consistency problems. You really don't know about it until they happen until you're the one in a race and the tires just aren't working. The way they had the rest of the weekend michelin obviously is going to be a little bit defensive about this. There aren't necessarily going to admit that problems do exist and admit that there's a chance you could get a crap tire for the race but it is something to watch for the rest of the season and see if it does affect anybody else now. The good news is that michelin dibba respond. A few weeks back in austria. Remember when miguel olivera had those chunking problems and they were placed. That speck of tire didn't help me gal in that race i mean it was too late for him but at least they are responding. It just remains to be seen if these are isolated incidents or if it's something that's going to crop up again and that kind of prompted jose to say. Hey the solution here is simple modo. Gp just needs more than one tire manufacturer. Now for those who haven't been around a long time. It's been one manufacturer for a while. Can't remember exactly the two thousand twelve. I can't remember exactly how long it was before michelin was bridgestone. Before that tire wars man everything was open and to go back there a bit of a pandora's box now. I don't necessarily disagree. Because in addition to petco back ni- being upset after silverstone with the tires we've seen ktm struggle with the fronts. That are too soft. And you know i would think that valentine rossi would say things haven't been the same for him. Since the manufacturer switched from bridgestone is a single tire supplier to michelin now. The advantage of bringing back more tire manufacturers even just.
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"Potential. Merican yell has wins. He's got factory level experience more important than all of that remember. Mad took suzuki to both their first podium. In their first victory on their return to the premier class. And that's a fact that the contingent from noah have to find particularly appealing. Because they need maverick to do the same thing for them now. Whether he can do that at this stage i don't know. But he's proven that he can and that is a big big draw for appropriate and it should be a big draw for appropriate now. When you compare maverick to somebody like say andre of it's yosso who we thought was going to end up in that seat mave is nine years younger and he hasn't sat out an entire season although he may be sitting out half the season depending on how things go in the wake of well what happened in austria. And then now this announcement and yeah. I totally admit that maverick has pretty much. Been a bust when it comes to being a championship contender. Sixty eight points is as close as ever come to a emoji. gp title and that's still landed him third overall back in two seventeen. He's never finished higher than third in the standings but probably don't need somebody to compete for a championship right now. They need somebody. That's going to get them on the podium and then help them eventually get to a win and while there may have been better long-term options out there if they could have gotten a guy like raul fernandez or remedy gardner miguel olivera. Anybody who rides ridden for ktm. I'm really those guys aren't available. And i don't think they're any better options in the short term than maverick daniela's and this may be a short-term gig. The deal is rumored to be just a single year with an option at the end of it for twenty twenty three and they didn't specify who that option lies with whether it's with the pro whether it's with maverick or whether it's triggered by some sort of performance metric One way or the other given the current circumstances one year in them. We'll see where it goes from. There is probably a good move on earliest part but that already leaves mavericks options open for a much bigger twenty twenty three scillies market. Sell if things. Don't start off famously..
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"Maybe i'd say we're getting very close to that level right now. I mean petronas motoo rider jake. Dixon is still reportedly on their radar and his results have not been terribly encouraging in his lengthy to career and apparently girl off is still in the picture as well even though his newly ceann yamaha contract is over at world superbike not with modo. Gp that could change. And why not. I mean like we were just talking about contracts. Don't really matter nowadays anyway but there are now two more names that gp one is kicking around. Tony our beleno in the aforementioned eager lickona arellano apparently is a very close friend. Fabio rose and the thing about tony our beleno. There is no question. The guy is fast. But there's also no question. The guy is inconsistent. I mean horribly inconsistent. But here's the thing. Consistency can be attained under the right system. We've certainly seen writers. In the past that we're very inconsistent got the motor. Gp got into a good program and they developed that consistency most recently. Look at petco back. Nyah mean check out his first couple of years emoji p. And what he's been able to do this season. That focus is there and if he can develop that focus and take advantage of his talent. There's no reason. Tony albano can't as well and i actually think that if they get to that point. I don't really view that as a panic. Move so much. I mean i think he would make a really good option. Considering the situation any wouldn't be that big of a risk or that big of a stretch worst case scenario. He doesn't develop the consistency but if he does he certainly has the ability to be fast on a motor. Gp bike now. He makes a very interesting option as well. Obviously he has some. Ogp experienced now and he is still only twenty one so there is room to work with him and room for him to grow. But this is the part that kinda makes me a little bit nervous when it comes to him sometime around this past week. I don't know exactly when it was. Ktm's stephan pyro was asked about the possibility of eaker lackawanna going yamaha. His response was yamaha can have him. We'll keep our fernandez's instead. That's not exactly confidence inspiring endorsement especially from a manufacturer who was willing or said they were willing to give you one of the top motoo bikes in the garage. If that's what they think of acres possibilities his potential motor gp level. I don't know. I don't know if makes the best option or not. I've read arguments on both sides of the equation when it comes to like wanna so i don't know if yamaha is necessarily desperate at this point i think they do have options are beleno. Is i think a good one and let on is not a bad one. But they likely aren't terribly confident in their choices right now. I mean they're gonna be gambling on at least one of those two riders if not both and it's a far cry from the talent development system at a place like ktm or coty for that matter and that talent pool is going to get even deeper with them having eight bikes next season. I'm speaking of ktm one more time. We got one more story to wrap up before we move onto your comments. And this weekend's race it turns out that the reason for ktm's miguel olivera retiring last weekend was not due to his wrist. Injury was due vibration and that vibration was caused by the front tire on his rc. Sixteen starting to d- laminate in two different places. There were a couple of large chunks of the tread that had just simply come apart from the carcass of the tire. In fact collapse over them. Read at thank you for posting. He shared a shot of miguel's frontier once he came into the pits. And if you wanna know why michelin has changed their mind. And they're gonna offer a harder compound this weekend. Take a look at that picture. There go. That was a seriously overheated and overtaxed frontier and it suffered as a result and interestingly michelin said that a problem with the structures they put it have been ruled out. But i wouldn't be surprised if they got a bum tire if they did. The end result was actually fortuitous then because michelin has decided to remove that particular tire from the allocation for this weekend. What they're replacing it with is a harder compound that is also symmetric. Now that was prompted by safety concerns. Say when the see another tire fall apart but in the end it is a huge boost for ktm. We'll talk about it in the moment when we get to the riders for this weekend's race but both miguel vera ambra bender said that the front tire held them back greatly last sunday. Remember bender finished fourth. They're both complaining about. They said they couldn't lean on it. It wasn't strong enough for the ktm. Now they're gonna get tired. They prefer and one that we know works well with the bike. A very hard option that is symmetrical not asymmetrical so. I don't know if this is kind of a home or call or not michelin kind of catering to the austrian manufacturer in austria but one way or the other they definitely are getting a present this weekend and one that could greatly increase. Ktm's chances of landing on the podium and competing for the win. so those are the new stories. I wanted to talk about for this week. Now let's move on to your comments about a variety of topics before we get to our preview of this weekend's race and many many people on read it and a couple of facebook as well of course commented on valentino rossi's decision to retire at the end of the year. There's one post that. I wanna point out genesis. Mk did a good job. Putting the astonishing longevity of valet into perspective he posted a graph and at the top of the graph was a bar showing the length. The valentine rossi's career below that from left to right everyone else who has ever run a moto. Gp race during the doctors career and not only. Is it insane to see. How many different riders rossi raced against but more than that. How many riders careers both started and then ended while the doctor was still going strong. And when i say that. I'm not referring to the to race career of steve rapp who by the way i forgot i completely forgot. He was at the two. Us rounds. when you're i think it was two thousand twelve. He only made one of those two racists but guys like storeowner lorenzo edwards. Hayden dobie droese. The majority of those guys were around a really long time and their careers were dwarfed by the length of valentino. Rossi's and you know last week on the show. I mentioned a lot of the numbers and of course the contributions to other riders both in terms of marketing. And you know style how you approach the sport and then his investment in the future when it comes to vr forty-six and the young rider said he's helping along the one thing. I didn't mention. And i've seen so many awesome stories that have reminded me of just the pure hijinks involved in the early to mid valentino rossi career. And if you're not familiar with some of those like you know the blow up doll and the police officer in the chicken oswaldo. I mean you've got to go. Look those up and find those moments if you have video pass and relive them or see them for the first time if you didn't see them the first time around because it really gives you some insight to a valentino rossi that if only come around the past say four or five years you never really got to experience and so you get that pure charisma that attracted so many fans to him and to the sport all right. Let's move on from there and go to last weekend's race in austria which was so eventful in you guys had some definite opinions on it We'll start with dj and man. I agree with you at this point. They need to change the name of the track from the red bull ring to the red flag ring. I don't think there's ever been a track with three straight modo. Gp red flags. And that's just the premier class. There were four overall because don't forget that there was also a red flag last year in one of the moto two races for another incident that started almost exactly the same way as what we saw with. Danny petrosa intern. Three guy goes down his bike slides across the track. Another rider comes along and hits that bike and because nobody has seriously gotten hurt. We think well you know it's not that great of a situation but it's okay. It could be way worse but the thing we don't want to do is wait until it gets way. Worse is wait one race too long. Like i mentioned on the post show. They absolutely redo that turn with a similar profile and a similar feel but way better visibility for the riders which is the biggest thing that we've seen in two years once a motive to once motor..
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"Miller. This is an incredibly difficult race to pick. I guess but in austria. You've gotta give the edge to do coty and with the best record and ground to make up in the championship. I look for miller to step up to the challenge and take this one. So that's my top five for this weekend steering. Gp and fifty chauhan's arco in fourth marquess and on the podium fabrio. Quattro ro miguel olivera. In jack miller do you agree disagree. You know what to do. Hit me up on facebook or read it and tell me my picks are awesome or tell me that they're terrible and who you think is gonna win messed up. Well we've got a race that means we're going to have a post ratio. That's right we'll meet back at the end of the weekend. Where i'll recap all of the action. Emoto three moto to ammo. Gp this is an extra show outside of the regular one. If you're a new listener. I'll give you my initial thoughts on the race because i record it right after i watch it. Then it's going to be your turn so leave your comments and your opinions on facebook and read it and we'll talk about him on the full show where we also go over the latest motor. Gp news your reaction to the valentino rossi announcement. We might have more announcements to talk about and of course. We'll already be set to preview race to in austria. So there's a lot of shows coming up. I don't want you to miss out on a single one of self. You haven't done it yet. I would highly recommend you subscribe. He could find the show on. Google podcasts apple podcasts speaker stitcher player dot fm spotify iheartradio. Amazon podcasts Basically go to your favorite podcasting site type mode week. You should be able to.
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"One is notably down on top speed. They still have to feel like they're capable of attacking here but on the other end of the spectrum. You've got valentina rossi. A film writer with cal crutch slow. They're not likely the factor very prominently for petronas and maverick penola is is a complete unknown coming into his first race since the announcement that he's going to leave at the end of the by the way i would say that the happiest person in all of austria right now is maverick fan because after five straight weeks of all of us speculating about what he's gonna do next year. Nobody's talking about that. Everybody's talking about valentina rossi retiring instead. Maverick definitely owes valentino basket at the end of the year for stealing a spotlight. That vanilla didn't even want on him in the first place. So that worked out really really good for malvo on that one But getting back the amaha the speed disadvantage is going to be their biggest challenge coming into this one am really kind of managing. The race is going to be the name of the game at yamaha. Get fabio is close to the front as possible so he can use the brakes and twisty bits to stay in it lose his few points as possible and then move on. But i still wouldn't count bobbio out a podium contention by any stretch of the imagination. The other guys. Yeah pretty much bobbio. No i think that he's so fast. This year that he very easily could be a factor in this race. Now let's move on the honda who hasn't gotten a ton of credit for it. But they are always racy in austria most notable those epic battles between marc marquez and andrea david. Co so but hey dana. Pedro has gotten on the podium. Here cal crush low has been far off himself and talking nagami some decent finishes too so the honda gives up way. Less in terms of straight line. Speed as some of the other manufacturers. M mark has always been able to attack the corners here and he likes high speed corners. Anyway the rear grip issues from the first half. Those could be problematic. Marquez health is always lingering question mark but if his shoulder is feeling better he's a solid contender. Poll spago has podium experienced here as well. The plan should be the push hard and get a strong start to the second half. Especially since fabio quattro yaro may or may not be playing as big of a role here as he did in the first nine races. So it's definitely an opportunity. The doors open for opportunity when it comes to honda to get on the podium. Now for suzuki despite not having the top speed of the do coty or the honda for that matter. They actually did quite well in austria last year. Both joanne mir and alex rinse were running near the front mir scored second and fourth place finishes and of course rin's wrecked out a podium position. Which kind of sounds like every race. This year But he did that last year and one of the races as well but the important part here for suzuki the rear whole shot ride height device is done and none too soon because with those three speed straits there are few tracks where a ride height device would come in more handy and help them combat their never ending qualifying problems now. Rinse should be far. Better health this time around. After is texting while cycling debacle and meanwhile join amir finds himself edit critical juncture in his title defense and needs to get the second half off to a good start. So the parts are here. They're on the bike. And alex anjouan need to take this opportunity to attack because if they can on saturday we know they're capable of getting on the podium on sunday moving over to outside of do coty. Ktm have to be the most excited for two in a row at their home track. They not only made huge strides here last year. With police grow. Locked in that epic. Battle with jack miller for the win and then miguel olivera darting past both of them to take the victory but they also made huge strides. This year. with the new chassis. Which has been nothing short of magic for olivera providing a little bit milder boost. When it comes to brad bender so not only did they know they can compete with cottie and both of these races but they have a ton of confidence and a ton of momentum coming out of the break being at their track in front of their hometown fans. I don't see why they won't be thinking about multiple podiums and going for victories. Miguel of area certainly capable and branded or could step up to the challenge as well even if tech three may not be able to carry a large share of the load across this weekend. I'm finally appreciate you know. They've certainly taken a big step in the right direction. The season but as we talked about during the midseason review alicia spargo says that what those guys need now. More than anything is an engine with the power necessary to match what their latest chassis is capable of and attract that is so dependent on horse power and acceleration. That means. this probably isn't the place where they're going to crack into the top five unless who knows. Maybe they'll surprise us with that. Brand new motor. That aleisha is looking for this weekend but that being said i still think spago has a shot to land inside the top. Ten part of what. He's giving up an acceleration and top speed is going to come back in the form of less tire. Wear in the closing laps. And that should maybe help. Minimize the late race fade. That has multiple times this year. For the ap- really So i think. They need the temper their expectations for these two weeks. But i think getting into the top ten in both races would be a good goal for alleys and company all right so those are the manufacturers. Now let's move on to the favorites riders. I think have the best shot at finishing on the podium in this one and maybe just maybe taking home that first place trophy and i expect a huge internal battle between the do khadi riders and it could be pretty fierce because they all want to be the one to lead the way at a track where they know. They're strong and they all want to prove to do khadi. That day can be the top rider here. But it's jack miller that's going to be. The rider do looks to to lead the way. He's the only person on the grid other than marc marquez to have multiple podiums at the red bull ring. Any got both of his podiums one year ago with impressive. Third and second-place showings the last of those of course in that fantastic battle with police spago now. Before.
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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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"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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"Just like the does he does have one top ten but his average finish is fourteen point three which is actually slightly lower so far than he had in his rookie season. I think the most important thing for america right now is to stop the nfl. To stop wrecking. I mean if he can log laps and just focus on improving results and trying to more consistently latch onto the back in the top. Ten if he can do that you know he'll be able to learn as much as possible to take with him back to moto to where he's going to have a great opportunity. He's going to be on an excellent bike and have a very good chance to excel and maybe work his way through back to the premier class so i think he really needs to focus on just making it to the races. Don't worry about results just improve his lap times between now and the end of the year and take that momentum and translate it into his moto to season in twenty twenty two that brings us to the manufacturer who is fifth overall in the constructors standings. Right now in. That is honda and overall well marquez. Return certainly injected some confidence and excitement back in the honda particularly at the saxon ring. But what about the rest of the honda riders. We know what marks doing. What about the other guys. Well never really done anything. Save for takenaka gami looking good and a couple of races but not being able to close out the deal and get a podium so in a way it's actually back to usual at honda there's mark and then there's everybody else but why is it that way honda had an entire year to work on the bike with nothing but there are other riders to try to make it less of a mark bike and that clearly hasn't succeeded yet. They haven't moved the needle in that respect seeing as none of the non mark. Riders has been able to get on a podium. So far they say that rear grip is an ongoing issue and mark certainly hasn't been immune with three d. nfc and a gaggle of wrecks since he's come back and much like the maha and unlike the ktm there seems to be no direct solution from the engineering staff on the horizon. Although with this five week break you'd imagine that they would come up with something to help the situation. It certainly is going to be their focus. The second half of the year and especially their focus when it comes to developing the twenty twenty bike with the idea there having ready to go one hundred percent for a one hundred percent healthy mark marquess. So if they're wise honda's focus should be on the bike fixing the problems with the bike and giving mark. Mark has a more comfortable situation where he doesn't feel like he has to go out there and tumble through the gravel every other practice session and since. We're talking about margot ready. Let's dive into the riders by expanding a mr marquez and marks numbers are not just the most interesting of the honda riders so far this year. But they're probably the most interesting of any writer in the sport so far this season and i know you're thinking what what are you talking about. He hasn't been doing well at all. Just wait just look at what he's done because with all of the racks and the multiple injuries. If i told you that marquez was actually still pretty damn fast this year. You probably wouldn't believe me but you should because despite everything marks average finish when he doesn't bennett and when he does make it to the checkered flag at the end of the race his average. Finish this year. You want to guess what it is. Six point zero. Yeah that's not too bad. is it. Especially considering his multiple injuries and his circumstances but there is a catch. There is definitely an asterix here because that making it to the end of the race part of that stat has been the real challenge for mr marquez. Three deaths of course. He sat out the first two races of the year. That means that even though his average finishes six point zero there haven't been but a couple of races where he's gotten that kind of average but that does prove that even a banged up. Marc marquez is faster than the majority of the raiders on the grid. I believe alberto push said in an interview this week. That mark with only one and a half arms is still able to go out there and beat a bunch of people in these kind of right about that. You know. I mean technically. He's faster than a fully healthy maverick than y'all is right now. Remember mavs average. Finish seven point five five and marks six point zero right The nerve problems in mark marquez's shoulder are a pretty big concern however if he makes progress over this lengthy summer break well. I think that mark is prime to have a solid second half of the year. I mean after irving germany that he can still go out there and win. I see both podiums and maybe even another victory ahead of him in fact. I think it's probably pretty good chance he's gonna win one or maybe more racist this season. Is it too late for him to figure into the title race. Probably i think there are too many points for him to make up but much like miguel olivera earlier mark is certainly going to be able to influence. Who does win the championship by stealing valuable podium points away from the other contenders now. When it comes to mark's teammate. Paul spago well. The hopes were very very high. Coming into the season with polls notably aggressive style indicates and the success that went along with that last year. It really looked like he was going to be able to make a very smooth transition to the to thirteen v. there were high hopes that he could continue on basically looking like the same writer that he was on the ktm. That obviously has not been the case. He's struggling qualifying then. He's only made a little bit of progress on race day. Both is saturday and sunday. Numbers are outside. the top ten is average. Finish in the first half of his inaugural honda season ten point one now. Poll pins his struggles. Not just on the rear grip issues with the bike but even more so on his limited time on the honda not really being able to understand the limits when it comes to qualifying saying he's making mistakes and exploring those limits on race weekends instead of em- practice sessions now. If he's right about that while it would then stand to reason that he would get consistently better as we head into the second half of the year and even though paul hasn't really been up to the standard that either he nor honda were really hoping for to start off. Twenty twenty one. At least he's doing better in his first season than honda's last two riders in that position alex marquez average finish in his first nine races on the repsol honda..
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"Links to everything at moto week. Dot net all right so here. We go the rundown just about everything. We're gonna talk about on this episode of the show. And i said that it was going to be all about your comments but there are a couple of small news stories that are worth mentioning before we dive into your thoughts. A so we'll talk about another moto. Gp round being cancelled and another one being added to the schedule later on this season and then a thirty something that trend could be returning to the grid. and no. i'm not talking about andrea the video so this time and we'll talk about who it is coming up here in just a minute but i'm kind of excited if this happens because it's going to be very interesting to see our and then after that we'll get into your comments more reaction to the maverick than as situation where you think you're wet wrong and if it can actually get any better for maverick going forward then we'll move onto your thoughts on. Who might replace maverick is next year. And it's part of that. Discussion will have a miguel olivera. Update also wanted to talk about in st. Anini about valentino rossi. The ins sarko incident last week in the dutch. Tt joe roberts and a whole lot more. Then we'll finish things off with some picks and video had some great stuff posted on reddit over the last ten days. Or so if you're not on the red at sub when i go through these you're probably gonna to go over there and subscribe because there's always cool stuff happening over there on the red at some all right so let's start with some motor. Gp news and. i said this was going to be an all comments and discussion episode but there are a pair of motor. Gp news stories worth mentioning especially since one of them is probably gonna turn into a topic of conversation if it does indeed happen. That's the good news. We'll start with the bad news and the bad news is no phillip island again. This season and i was really hopeful. When it was announced that circuit of the americas was happening. That we will get more flyaways and less cancellations in the second half of the year but once again arguably the best track on the circuit is going to be silent as dorna said that travel restrictions and logistical issues are going to make the australian round impossible to run for the second straight season. You know make do and said that. He was devastated by this decision. And i think it generally sucks to you know. Doing of course wanted to see his fellow. Countrymen remmy gardner and jack miller. They're running so well this year and be able to take that to their home. Track was going to be really exciting for all the australian fans for me personally while phillip island is simply awesome and it always seems to put on an excellent race. Some of the best we've ever seen have been at phillip island and like i said i feel particularly bad for our australian contingent. I know there are a lot of aussies. It listened to the show the minute i read this news. I knew that you were going to be pretty upset by it. And there are a lot of comments on reddit saying as much. I just have my fingers crossed that. This is the last time we're ever going to have to cancel phillip island or any other round. Because it's something like this. And i can't wait until we can see racing again at such an awesome track integrate location. I mean yeah. It's kind of windy all the time. But they've got the see there and the track is amazingly fast and flowing. And i mean it's just everything you want out of a motor. Gp track The cancellation means that sapang is going to be moved up by week because it was originally going to be the tripleheader. Now it's just the double header back to back with sapang and thailand that way. Everybody won't have to just sit around wishing that could be in australia for an extra week. And a replacement round has been announced to keep nineteen races on the schedule. And guess what. It's portugal again. This time it's going to be called al garbage ep november seventh and this is a big deal for two reasons number one because if all goes well the portuguese fans will finally get the witness emoji p race at their home track in person the third time around. It's going to take but the finally get to be in the stance and number two. This is going to be the second to last race of the season. And that means that. Miguel oliveira is going to get a home round that what's potentially a very critical point in the championship and the way he's racing right now. That could prove to be a big advantage in the end. Maybe not for the championship itself. Although who knows with what we saw last season but certainly for one of the top five spots if he continues on this path and with fans president as well he's going to be even more motivated so that could be a very very big race for miguel olivera and ktm at the end of the year so that was the first story not necessarily the best news. But we're going to bring it back with the second story. How about the idea of dani pedrosa running wild car brace for ktm because it could actually happen danny has been pretty steadfast since he started testing. Ktm that he really wasn't interested in a wildcard entry despite the fact that ktm was completely willing to put him on the bike and of course his fans would desperately love to see him hop on the sixteen. And see what will happen. Well it turns out that danny in the past couple of days has kind of revised that previous statement now. He says that back then when he started he didn't really see much of a point in running a wildcard brace because there wasn't really that much to be gained as a test rider. His goal was simply to make the bike competitive so running races on something that couldn't win would kind of be a wasted effort and that does make sense. But now that the ktm kanga podiums in wins and daime says he feels like he can really get into a rhythm on the bike. He thinks that they're actually could be something. Gained in terms of fine tuning and taking the next step getting out there on the bike in race conditions. You know i'd like to know what you think about it. But i got to admit i think it's great news. I mean having watched him for so many years ride nothing but a honda in the premier class. I'd be very interested to see how a different bike and especially a bike..
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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..
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"Is a do county so yup. There's aero there are winglets involved zhijie. Delina would be proud of you for that. Move by the way. Cool leathers too and i bet. The exhaust sounds great on that when we didn't get to see the exhaust but you mentioned what's on it on and if you want to post a video man go for i and speaking of modding it turns out that our good friend chip are fifty-one. The who has been with the show forever is doing more than just strapping on some cool new electronics to his rc. Fifty one and holy crap. Dude that bodywork looks freaking epic. The varying design looks like you channel truly and a really awesome tribute to nikki. Aiden i cannot wait to see that whole thing come together. I mean it's going to be incredible. You know the rc. Fifty one and i know i've said this before on the show as soon as chip showed up said it one of my favorite bikes ever in stock form so much. So that generally not a fan of aftermarket fairing custom ferrings on them because they got it so right for the time period on those bikes. But that doesn't apply here at all because not only do those ferrings look great and they look like they were painted amazing too but that design looks like it could have been a factory special that came straight out of honda. So it's gonna be over the top like can't wait to see i'm gonna finally dj was cruising around austin fact. He stopped to get a shot of his speed. Triple in front of rodeo austin and it was great because when you posted that photo you said kind of making up my own rumor that there's going to be a race in texas this year. Well i hope you're ready because it ain't or rumor anymore. Racing is coming back to the. Us it's going to be so much fun so excited for it. I hope you are too. The only bad side for me is that i just started this new job and you can't take vacation for like a certain amount of time. I have no clue how. I'm gonna get myself to texas to see this race but i'm going to try to figure it out All right so that does it for pics videos and comments. If i didn't get to yours it's not because i didn't like it It's just mostly in the interest of time and if you just posted in the past couple of hours before i recorded the show i may not have even seen it yet. So keep on posting. And i'll get to years on the next show all right so we just had a race last weekend. The extended summer break is coming up. But we've got one thing happening before that begins right another race round nine of the twenty twenty one world championship. Is this weekend. The dutch t at the legendary asan circuit and it is time to talk about the race. The contenders and who i think is going to win this sunday. But before we get the riders. Let's start by talking about the track. The legendary asan circuit federal is speed actually more accurately the cathedral of speed with one really slow section tossed in that really slow section. Sometimes is the point of contention with longtime fans and with riders for that matter. But i actually like the technical bits added to the first slash second sector. Not only does it. Provide a bit of a stadium section for fans to see a lot of the action and it is a european track after all. You have to have a stadium section but it also provides a bit of balance for the rest of the circuit which is far more focused on while speed. You know mid and high speed corners that are far more about edge grip and throttle control than the first section which is a test of handling and patience and drive out of the corner and in that respect it really does share some characteristics with sachsenring just longer and faster on the back end without the elevation changes but still that idea of a very slow technical section followed by more wide. Open rest of the lab. Now obviously the defining moment of asan is at the very end of each lap that famous chicane the last chance to pass before the start. Finish line and a place where we have seen some very wild finishes in the past. Most recently with valentino rossi and marc marquez are some other great sections of this historic track as well From the less hyped chicane at turns eight nine which typically sees good action throughout the race to the long double apex twelve thirteen section and then my favorite part turn fifteen through seventeen which yes. There's a corner in the middle of that. But it's essentially a dogleg straight that really challenges the bravest riders to hit that apex perfectly and hardly let off the throttle at all and it is a really good follow up. I think asking is to germany expanding on the idea. It's got the technical section. I it doesn't have the big straight instead. It relies on edge. Grip drive off the corner carrying a lot of momentum through the corner and avoiding wheelspin so a lot of different challenges that come into play and because there are some characteristics of their shared between saxon ring and essen. We could see a similar set of riders. Excel here as we did last weekend and so with that. Let's talk about some of the riders starting with the contenders the writers. I think have the best shot to finish top five in this race. Make a play for the podium and they might just be able to win the whole thing and we will start that list of contenders with fabrio. Coiro not a big surprise right. Fabrio wasn't able to keep up with marc marquez. Miguel olivera last weekend. That saxon ring but as an is a little bit more wide open with some of the bigger speed corners being kind of reminiscent of guitar both terms of lack of elevation change and carrying speed through the centre.
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"miguel olivera" Discussed on MotoWeek - MotoGP, Motorcycle and Racing News
"I'm too crazy here. Mark marquess and. I know i know the chances of mark getting on the podium. This weekend are very very small. But i've got to put him on my favorites list anyway because he has been absolutely ridiculous here for a solid decade in seven career mode. Gp races marquez. Won seven times and that's street goes back beyond motor. Gp extending into his two seasons and moto two and its final year of one twenty five so the last ten times in a row. He's lund up on the grade at saxon ring. He stood on top of the box and taking home the big trophy and his motor. Gp wins have even been nail biters. I mean he's won by seconds sometimes. Lots of seconds so kenny. Keep that streak alive. Well no i really don't think so at all but he's been so much better here than the rest of the world for so long that i'm not gonna completely right him out of a top five run or even a shot at the podium as unlikely that seems right now given the fact that while he was on the biking catalunia looked quite a bit more like the old mark. I don't know there could be something here so definitely watch the ninety-three this weekend. If he can stay on the bike till the end of the race which is really goal number one. He's got a relatively good shot at getting a really good finish. Certainly as best finish since returning to the grid right so. Those are my favorites for this weekend. But now i've got the watchlists. These are writers. I think. Have a solid shot at the top. Ten may even be able to poke their nose into the top five and if they are having a really good day it could even contemporary podium. And we're going to start that list. With valentino rossi. Who is the only rider other than marc marquez. To have a pretty good record here. This hasn't been one of the doctors best tracks lately. But you wouldn't know by the numbers because valentino is scored four wins and ten career podiums at saxon ring. Why the latest podium was just a few years back in two thousand eighteen. His last victory was two thousand nine. In fact he was the last rider not named marc marquez. Or dany petrosa to win the german. Gp that is just how dominant honda has been here for such a long time. But valentino is clearly not on top of his game right now in. The aha has some issues of its own in the hands of everyone other than tomorrow so all. The doctor does have the ability to perform well here. Just what performing well for this season consists of. That's the issue. The way things have been going a top ten would be a good result in valentino's going to have to get his weekend off to a very strong start right away to have hopes of atop five but on the other side of that coin sits miguel olivera. Who's kind of in the opposite. Situation as valentino. Rossi he doesn't have any history at least not motor. Gp we'll talk about motor to a second at saxon ring but he is absolutely blisteringly fast right now coming into this weekend. Not just off of his impressive cataluna win. But i'm back to back podiums and it's qualifying game has improved as well with this new chassis now. Ktm as a whole hasn't really establish themselves in the german gp but olivera does have a fourth and a second-place result. Here motoo in those are very recent so at least he knows his way around the track you throw in a better handling and better accelerating our sixteen and miguel once again has seriously per potential to challenge at a place that you wouldn't typically expect them to. Let's shift over to suzuki now. And talk about joe amir and if you listen to jamir things haven't really been going to well lately however the results don't seem as bad as he's making it out to be i mean after stumbling out of the blocks. Joanne comes into this race with the podium in italy then a fourth and catalunia although we actually crossed the line v so he is scoring points. And he's done okay in germany finishing seventh in two thousand nineteen. He also won here a moto three and finished second emoto to a couple years back now obviously. He needs to start getting podiums and getting victories to help himself out in the championship. And he's right on the edge of those types of performances now both his and suzuki's record at saxon ring. Keep him off the favorites list for me but he has serious top ten and maybe better potential. Come sunday afternoon. I'm next up. We're gonna talk about frankel. Morbidelli and frankie is quite a perplexing writer and not just for this race but this entire season we know he can be fast any has at times but unlike last year when he really got on a roll after getting jump started in the second half this year he's been derailed multiple times by weird things happening some of which weren't even his fault not to mention. He's got a bike. That definitely seems down on performance to the factory rights. And that's maybe forcing him to push a little too hard at times forcing those mistakes but the potential to be fast is definitely there. And he's got some results. Eerie finished ninth emoto gp in two thousand and nineteen. He had a win in his motive title season of two thousand seventeen. The big thing for me. And frankie here is the track. This track doesn't expose the performance deficit of his m one as much as a place like mugello or even catalunia dozen. Because of that. I think morbidelli has a decent shot to run well in this one especially if he qualifies on the front two rows which is a possibility and i wouldn't be surprised at all if this ends up one of those races. Where he at the end makes the better yamaha. Bikes look bad so while i know. I'm making him sound like a contender. His recent results those are what's making me a little bit cautious to bump him up and so he stays on the watchlist for this week..
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"miguel olivera" Discussed on MotoWeek - MotoGP, Motorcycle and Racing News
"With. Ktm and nigerian prince eight forty seven who you may be getting an email from in the next week or so is thoroughly convinced after these last two rounds in the progress that ktm has made. After rolling out that new chassis. He even sees them as championship favorites. Now it's interesting that you phrased it that way. Because miguel olivera was asked about the title race after catalunia and he said it's a bit too early for him to start thinking about that and sixty one points out. He's probably right only because ktm has really only had these two rounds. Now to give the chassis proper. Go and see what they're going to get out of it. But of course while the sample size is small the results do speak for themselves and sixty one points while. That's a lot giving up that margin to someone other than marc marquez. Necessarily insurmountable with the number of races left and based on what we saw last year. Especially if yamaha kinda falls out of their happy place at some point this season which is a distinct possibility. Now i'm certain that miguel doesn't wanna put any undue pressure on himself or on the team but over the next two or three races if the results stay similar. Miguel olivera is a legit podium contender. Then the title race is something. They're definitely going to have to consider for now though a little too early to tell and i don't have the numbers for the team or the manufacturer championship in front of me. But that's a possibility for them. As well in fact it might be easier possible. Faris or possibility than the rider championship. Because outside of jack miller and petco back niagara there really haven't been a pair of riders that have really been head and shoulders above the others in terms of performance. Almost every other team has one rider. Doing really well or wom- writer doing okay. Then the other one not so good at all so we keep an eye on that as well. I'm and then as head asked a question that if he had asked it like say a year and a half ago we would have thought he was being ridiculous but now not so much what he asked us. How realistic is it. That honda could end up a concessions team. At the end of the year now to get concessions they would have to go the entire season without a podium and so far they haven't been anywhere near one so could it really happen well. Racing armchair responded by saying he thinks it's very realistic. I think it's not beyond the realm of possibility. But i'm going to qualify that on one hand. Even alex marquez was able to podium a couple of times last year for epsile honda. Although it didn't really matter because nobody could fall into concessions last year with the short season you could only get out of concessions like ktm did but there's a lot more competition this year than last year. Do coty has to legit podium contenders. Where last year. They had one or by the end of the year. Kind of half of one. Yamaha's been more consistent at least in the hands of fabio kwok harare. Ktm is now up and running in a big way. And i think that both pray mac bikes are going to be podium capable later on the season and certainly joins arco right now so there are a lot of people out there that could continue to block honda from scoring a podium. The flip side of that is mark is getting better. We're seeing it he keeps wrecking but he's getting better and bill takenaka. Gummy ample spago are capable of getting a podium. Talk more so on the honda. But both of those are podium capable riders. So i think the chances of them scoring a podium by the end of the season. I think it's pretty good but as of right now. Dropping into concessions is a possibility. That's on the table and it's a possibility that trust me. Honda does not want to think about. I mean sure. There are big advantages in terms of testing and development but would be a massive massive embarrassment for one of the big three to resort to concessions outside of course of do declaring open class status back in two thousand fourteen purely tactical move ahead of the spiky so euros which by the way was fascinating time and we should talk about that at some point on the show maybe over the winter so i think honda are going to work extra hard not to fall into concession status. The optics would be far more negative than the development advantages would be a positive for them all right. So let's wrap up the show with some pics and video that posted over the last week on reading. A lot of stuff was supposed to do some great stuff We'll start with rock and ten ninety eight a new to the show and so the right at sub 'em from india which is awesome. He's rocking the do coty monster and in a world of enfield's and ktm three nineties cruising around on that thundering duke must turn heads everywhere very cool and i love the color chip rc. Fifty one has been teasing us. Teasing us with those trick parts. That are on the way. I fifty one between the traction control. At least that's what i think he got last week. And now those sato clipboards. I cannot wait to see the final product and i do hope that magic box is traction control because nursing fifty one with tc would be an absolute blast. I can't even imagine how much that would be. Especially at the track diene hems. His son is marking off the days on custom calendar that he made himself counting down not just to his trip to the dutch t t but for his first ever moto erasing getting the see our first race. It's such a legendary track is going to be an amazing experience. I mean he's gonna go bonkers over the sound and the sense of speed at make sure by the way the take some earphones some sort of protection for them. When you're close to the track and seeing that he's a bit of a valentino rossi among others. This is a really really important race for him to get to go to One of rossi's favourite and best tracks ever and we just don't know this could be the last time valentino rossi races the dutch t t so to get to see that in person and for that to be your first ever race. That's a really big deal. So i'm super excited on your son's behalf. Joe ceo eight has been listening for a while but he just hopped on the right at some..
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"miguel olivera" Discussed on MotoWeek - MotoGP, Motorcycle and Racing News
"Gp that's not really all that surprising of note matteo baiocco. I hope i said his name. Right was the test rider for filling in for allie spargo. Who still recovering from that semi problematic arm pump surgery. He had a few weeks back now when we look at the time chart here the same. Disclaimer applies whenever we have a test. You can't always read too much into single app times especially in a one day test like this because everybody has a different agenda for what they wanted to accomplish. And not all of those goals necessarily include going out there and making time attack now as we look at the manufacturer's suzuki do coty and apprecia- while they were the most boring participants in this test focusing mainly on settings and consistency so once again for another one day test just like they did back in says do county doesn't bring anything wild and crazy but that's okay because ktm made up for everyone in the cool new stuff department by showing up with a lot of toys to play with the factory guys rolled out a preliminary version of what's being referred to as the twenty twenty two bike the factory riders. Were calling it a prototype for next year that bycatch a revised chassis or vice swing arm and tail section as well as a new exhaust. But we don't know anything about what was under the ferrings. Whether there was a new engine they were playing with were if they were testing all of the new stuff with their existing engine and nobody was really saying much more than what the parts were. Look forward to next season and then on top of that miguel. Olivera did add that there were a few different configurations of frame and swing arm that they tested as well tech three got in on the fun to with both danilo petrucci Getting their first shot at the new frame. That miguel and brad have run the past few rounds to massively increase success. Although danilo said that his improvement with a new chassis was only minor because according to danilo most of his current issues really have to deal with his size and weight transferring too much onto the rear tire and causing rear grip issues. And that makes sense. I mean presumably chassis designed in conjunction with the very smart flight danny petrosa and then tweaked for ideal implementation by the still pretty small olivera and bender would probably still need further tweaking for a rider. The size of danilo petrucci not gonna go into what that means for him going forward with ktm but that does make sense that the fray may not magically change things for him the way it seemed to for both brad bender miguel olivera but with all of that twenty twenty two bike tech three riders. Getting the first shot at the current new frame. None of that on the ktm front was the interesting part. The interesting part with the new era. Bits debuted by the austrian factory in a throwback to her. Hey lorenzo circa two thousand thirteen at phillip island or and early nineties honda. Cpr ktm literally showed up with some plastic or carbon fiber for that matter full of holes. A lot of holes all the way down the leading edge of the faring. Now on top of that. Let's see here. The new bodywork also incorporated a scoop. It's very back of the faring. About halfway down right around the rider's knee angling air a little bit upwards towards the tail and then a scoop at the back of the faring all the way at the bottom now. I'm not exactly like the do coty. They've got that scoop now at the lower front portion of the faring for ktm. It's at the back. And that seems to be directing air to a swing arm that features a rear fender that actually extends down the sides of the arm itself at this point. You probably want to look at a picture. I'm describing it to keep up with all of these things that they've added They also had a tail. Section that was notably curved downward or the current ktm tail section is kind of flat and most manufacturers angle. There's up into a point a little bit and can junction with that. Downward curve of the retail section the seat had a very hard crease. The kind of formed a contoured scoop in the body itself that seem to channel air along the tail maybe working in conjunction with that scoop that sitting midway up the fairing and they appeared to have a more pronounced chin spoiler to and some gigantic scoops on the front brake rotor. I think that's it. I think i got all of it in there. Although i'm sure there's something that i miss book go look at the picture of that new aero kit that they debuted was enough bodywork to make even gee-gee delina proud now whether all of that new stuff worked or not well again. Nobody was really saying and they certainly weren't doing serious enough. Time attacks with those new bits to tip us off on the time sheet whether they were making big strides or not but it was all pretty wild and they were definitely the star of the task when it came to rolling out new stuff By comparison yamaha did have some new parts but they didn't seem very exciting side by side with ktm There was a carbon swing arm on offer for maverick fan. Y'all as something that yamaha's gone back and forth with multiple times as the tried to get the right formula for that part other than that. There wasn't anything terribly. Exciting going on with the outside valentine rossi and prakash morbidelli trying out some slotted brake rotors and i don't think they were the only ones i think there were a couple of teams that try out the new slotted brembos. Brake rotors bought from advocate. Least obviously the settings changes that they worked on. Maybe the swing arm. I know made some sort of difference with him topping the time she'd although take that with a grain of salt and let's be honest single app times aren't really what yamaha struggling with right now anyways evidenced by charo race pace is the big issue here especially when it comes to maverick and valentino now. Honda was the most active manufacturer in the session. In terms of time spent on track mark marquez ran eighty seven laps in this test. Coursey didn't expend too much energy on sunday. So i guess he had some leftover but one way or the other. That's great news for him..
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"Impose a time penalty. Now in this case. I guess they chose the time penalty. And i have to say. I guess because i looked everywhere in all of the official timesheets and documents that mo- gp releases after the race and if they did assess a time penalty. I couldn't find it. I couldn't find out what exact amount was added for each of those riders and their official end of race margins to fabio quad charro on the final lap also match the times that were listed on the official stats at the end of the race. So in the end it seems it seems like race direction simply said well all right since both of you did it. We're just gonna say that. Two wrongs cancel each other out. Make a right. We're not gonna worry about doing anything. Specific in handing out any penalty which of course flies directly in the face of what happened in the motive to race when it came to joe roberts where he was dropped off the podium and along those same lines if race direction does get a level of discretion when it comes to what penalty gets handed out when someone exceeds track limits them. Why isn't there. Also some level of discretion in calling the infraction in the first place. I mean jack miller a maverick daniela's said as much after the race. They agreed that none of the writers that we've been talking about over the past couple of days. jamir miguel olivera or joe. Roberts did anything that would have resulted in them. Losing a position had that been real grass instead of green paint and so for whatever reason they decided to leave show a mirror and miguel oliveira in the positions that they crossed the line. In at the end of the race that level of latitude that level of judgment should also be allowed when it comes to determining whether a rider has exceeded track limits in a way that would be advantageous to their finish in the race as well. I mean i don't wanna keep rehashing this over and over again but it should be judgement call. Sometimes we may not like that judgment but as long as we know that somebody who is knowledgeable in the sport. Motorcycle racing specifically motor racing looked at that videotape and then turned around and said we've determined that a writer in that position would not were would have lost a spot had that been grass. I'm way better with that. Then having no gray area at all and seeing the weirdness that we witnessed last weekend in italy. But i don't know maybe i'm alone in that opinion on by the way i'm miller's tassie girl i agree with you that joe roberts was really the one that got the shaft there Jack miller called it straight up. Bs and i can't think of any better description than that. I mean let's be honest marco zaki. He was happy for the points. He's not gonna turn those down and he may not be able to turn those down at the end of the year but he didn't wanna get on the podium. That way anymore than joe wanted to lose out on the podium. That way and speaking of joe roberts gay on two wheels wanted to give props to both joe and camera bobi mentioning where cam came from the grid twenty fifth to finish eighth in the moto to race. And you know what. Cameron is going to get a handle on qualifying as the season goes on. He's going to get more experience. He's gonna start up further in the pack. And i agree. It's going to be a lot of fun to see what camera boba can do when he eventually gets to the point where he starting on the first three rows. Extend that comment to alex rennes enjoy. Mirian motor jp as well chunky. Kiddie wasn't a big fan of the action in the motogp. Erase last weekend. And i can appreciate that. You don't overlook everything. Zhou amir miguel olivera. They provided some excitement in a little bit of uncertainty at the end of the race. But i figure that you were probably hoping for a big do qadi yamaha shootout and i was hoping we were gonna get something like that as well. It certainly didn't materialize. Although i think funchal meyer nailed it of all the nfc last weekend petco back. Nyas definitely the biggest because there was a much better chance for an exciting race. Had he been able to stay in it and slug it out with fabio until the end but in addition to the mirror and olivera thing. I would also argue that. You have to appreciate just how well fabio ran that race. I mean yes sometimes you blowouts and when you get blowouts that typically means that you've just witnessed something awesome from a rider in the field. In this case that was bobbio yaro with suzuki. Both getting back on the podium at least broke up some of that yamaha yukata dominance. That's kinda set in at the beginning of the year. And i also think that when it comes to mugello the moto. Gp race in being framed by moto three and moto to both of which were antastic battles. I mean moto. Three was an incredible scrap from start to finish and moto to snatched a thriller out of the jaws of boredom. So that made the moto g p race. Seem that much more uneventful by comparison. So i do think that there were some positives to take away from that motor. Gp race you know the way. Fabio roads some interesting riders on the podium. But yeah you know. It wasn't the fender the fender thriller that we saw at the end of the moto to race and from start vanish in the moto three race on but speaking of that kids emoto gp. That takes us over the pedro on facebook. Who said that. Hey wait a minute wait a minute wait a minute. Everybody seems to be proclaiming that. Ktm is made this great leap forward because they got on the podium and they got to riders in the top five last weekend. But what's that based on. Because after all they were able to get a tire that really worked well with the bike in this race but instead of just saying oh well it's product of hard front tyre. Everybody seems to be focused on their chassis as the deciding factor and because of that it wasn't just they got one good race in or they took advantage of a good tire option. But all the sudden. It's this monumental leap forward. Well i don't know about a leap per se. But i do think it was a step forward and that is considering that the is a super tire sensitive bike and they do like to use a harder option which they were able to do in mugello and that was a far cry from the tire issues that we've seen them struggle through this your most notably where the heart option that. Miguel olivera used to win the race. Last year was removed from the allocation. And they went from a victory and two riders in the top four to just one writer in the top five and everyone else thirteenth or worse at the end of the day. But i will say that i think all of the enthusiasm surrounding ktm as long as we don't use the word leap but maybe the word stepper too. I think it is properly attributed to the chassis. I think that's accurate. I mean even before sunday's race the ktm factory riders were talking about how this new frame was specifically designed to help them lean less on.
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"Class you have electronics play more horsepower. More weight so it really is to everybody's advantage on the ktm side to get a cost to on that motorbike even if it takes them a couple of years. It's better for him to learn their than go through. What jack miller went through when he got moved up too early to the big heavy bike and it took him years to really be able to catch up development wise because of how large that gap was between where he started and where he instantly ended up so the only lingering question in this case the md l. is what happens with the other tech three bike because garner very likely slots in for like a woman in fact. I won't be surprised if it ends up being a straight bike swap. By the time things are all done but does row will fernandez move up to the tech three squad to and take picture cheat at this point. I kind of think so. I mean like we talked about. Ktm's mo is to stick with those riders that day developed at the lower levels. No matter how the got them at the lower levels m move them up to moto. Gp so that combined with performance doesn't make things look that great for mr ritchie right now. Although danilo could potentially change that i mean. He's asking for latest chassis. Starting this weekend in catalonia. If he gets it he better do something with it and quick if he wants to save his place for next season but if i had to guess right now considering how well danny petrosa has worked out for him as a test rider. I think that they're going to definitely slant towards their younger riders when it comes to full time racing emoji p nothing next year. We're going to see remmy gardner raul fernandez on the tech three bikes and then of course. Miguel olivera and brad bender on the factory bikes in that probably jives with harvey trial tech three as well because his ongoing philosophy has always been to focus on developing young talent. That's eventually going move onto the factory team and danilo pitchy doesn't really fit that description so well so i think if you're a is given his choice he would probably lean towards the younger riders as well but we'll find out here in the next couple of weeks. Exactly what's going to happen with fernandez and with pedro acosta and everybody else on the side. All right so let's move on from the motor. Gp news to your comments and you had a lot to say about mugello weekend before we get to some of your comments. I've actually got a question for all of you guys because multiple people of course mentioned the tragic accident involving jason do pass gay and the question i have is based on some of the comments. That petco back. Nyah made at the end of the weekend and he said that personally. He didn't want to run the race on sunday in order to be respectful to jason do pasquet and his family and his team. He thought that there shouldn't have been any racing. And he was a little bit critical at dorna emoji. P. for holding the race. Weekend as well. I totally see where he's coming from. Absolutely and if they had not run that race in that had been the reason. I wouldn't have had any arguments with that. I would have been perfectly fine with that The interesting thing that petco said is he feels that if the incident had involved a motive. Gp rider that there would not have been racing on sunday. And i don't know that necessarily would have been the case because when you go back and look at the incident since the early two thousands and thankfully there have only been a few tragic incidents since the mid two thousands. In every case except for marco semen shelley's wreck the race to go on and the only reason it didn't with marco is because that incident happened during the race itself and they never restarted after the red flag. And i think we can all be realistic about the idea that the reason those races continued is because there is a lot at stake in terms of competition and marketing and money. And that's sad. It's really really sad. I think what pekka was saying that is the ideal that when something tragic happens it is absolutely worth it to stop and reflect on it. But that's not the business of motor. Gp and i don't know what the what the real answer is here. I mean i think that the vast majority of us would have been okay with them not running the race and also the vast majority of us were okay with them running the race. Because you don't have to be in one camp here or the other. But i am very curious if there is anybody out there that agrees with petco and things that they absolutely positively should not have run mugello this year. They should have postponed and cancelled the race weekend. Because i don't know what the right answer is there. I really don't. And i don't hold it against them for running the event last sunday and i wouldn't have held it against them if they did not run the event last sunday. Facebook reddit limited. What you think all right so let's move on to the race because there was a lot to talk about. That happened last weekend in italy. One of the big stories track limits with multiple riders being kind of sort of demoted places. And that's where miller's tassie girl comes in had a very good question about the track limits drama specifically concerning the end of the mode. gp race and the question. Is that if joe amir. And miguel olivera both had a track limits infraction on the final lap with what we were told and if the penalty for the infraction was dropping one position which is also what we were told them. Why wouldn't johann mir have gone from third fourth dropping one position and then me gal olivera from second to third dropping one position therefore effectively leaping joins arco from fourth all the way up to second instead of the flip flop back and forth. Which is what we were told on the world feed and the answer in my opinion is yes if race direction was consistent about the whole drop of position on the final lap thing when you exceed track limits then yeah mir should have gone to fourth miguel olivera to third and that would've by default put jones arco on the podium and second now in this particular case the world p commentators were generalizing the penalty. Just a little tiny bed saying that the rule is you always drop a position if you exceed track limits. That's not how the amended regulation actually reads what it does. Is it gives the stewards some level of discretion to either tele writer to move to a different position or.