Wowee. A HRC super team. Is this confirmed?
Two riders that Rossi fans hate, in the same garage!
Wowee. A HRC super team. Is this confirmed?
Two riders that Rossi fans hate, in the same garage!
Confirmed.
That's 6 motogp championships in the same garage.
And they’re both used to being the #1. It could be electrifying.
This has echoes of Senna/Prost at McLaren.
And together they robbed Valentino Rossi of a championship.
There's talk that Marc VDS will completely abandon MotoGP and concentrate on Moto 2 & 3 teams. The MotoGP team is in absolute disarray with team principal and team owner barely on speaking terms and with allegations of financial impropriety being banded around. it's not going well.
Lorenzo to Honda is a strange one. It's been suggested that the Honda is a very physical bike that is difficult to be smooth on and Lorenzo is Mr Smoooooth which is why the Yamaha suited him so well. It's all about corner speed compared to the Ducati which is all about power and traction and the Honda seems to be more about traction out of corners. I'm really unsure what Lorenzo's thinking is.
I’m guessing that he wanted nothing short of a full factory ride anywhere but Ducati (and Suzuki and Aprilia and KTM) and hey, the HRC ride opened up at a convenient time.
It’s arguably the greatest team in the sport, but it does seem like a poisoned chalice right now. Nobody, not even a top-tier rookie, would be wise to take the seat with the large shadow of Marquez looming over the team and the entirety of that bike’s development.
Nobody ever said Jorge was smart.
Now, petrucci was a no-brainer.
In other news, I can't wait for Honda's failure to handle two egoists.
It has been tried before.
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