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VR will be reincarnated as a motorcycle. Lorenzo owes his machine to this articulate and honest man. Rossi always admits his defeats with grace while talking team when he wins. Ducati... stand-by!
Been reading on a couple of less-reliable sites that Kallio has signed with Marc VDS Racing (as of this morning), alongside Scott Redding, for 2011. Any word on that?
That's really something. And Rossi's last lap came as a surprise.
Tomorrow could be a decent race, hoping than Dani, Vale and Ben injuries won't prevent them to push all the length of the race.
Question is: can you be ahead of the pack on turn 1 starting from 8th?
..... as always with Moto2!
Top 20 within a second. What a great championship this has turned out to be.
If Moto3 is as half as good, it will be incredible.
Great news about SOFUOGLU signing for Moto2 also.
Interesting discussion, but I don't think a single Moto2 chassis builder will rise to the top so soon. You can't compare it with 250's simply because Aprillia also made the engine in that scenario.
Isn't the engine a pretty important and expensive part of the motorcycle? The engine and ECU is the great equalizer in Moto2.
Developing a chassis for a spec engine series is not nearly as expensive as trying to beat Aprillia in 250's.
Just went through the Yam/Rossi video. Good stuff. As tomorrow winds up or rather,winds down the season,I hope everyone keeps it rubber down.
Awesome demolition derby by Stoner. Rossi pulled something out the bag.
Never checked what compound he was on.
Very good David,thanks. Lose the front stands out .
For the record, I am a Yank and I like the Euro format because I can see the race dates at a glance. I use another calendar for my daytimer in the office. Of course they give those away free... :-)
If Dani has the strength to go for all the laps.
Sic is also very consistent and hopefully he will be on Sunday too.
Vale from the back may come out as an extra treat.
Can't wait for my calendar. I was nearly going to order it but then I remembered it will come with my annual subscription anyway. Haha
I'm guessing the t-shirts will some at the same time if we subscribed with that option? Can't wait.
..as Simeon officialized the deal yesterday afternoon on french speaking Eurosport. This said, silly season is like Dallas....
...after seeing FP3 I see I got it all wrong. Very happy for Dani!
I understand that Simeon has a contract with Holiday Gym, but that because Yannick Guerra's father owns the team, and the team only has one rider slot, Guerra will most probably take that ride.
The belgian rider Xavier Simeon (Stock 1000 champion in 2009) has inked his deal with one bike spanish team Holiday Gym.
There is a Toyota 2000GT behind him. Man I want to go to that museum.
David, don't worry about balance and even distribution! Most of us come here because it's the best source of this type of frank interview. We'll take what ever we can get :)
Thanks for another great article.
treat from Dr K. Thanks and a big thanks to Yamaha as well, for this video.
I love his candor! Especially when talking about the switch to 800cc engines. You can clearly see he loved the 990s better.
He was also very upfront on what he liked and did not like. Very open and kudos to Yamaha for providing the video, especially with this year's bike.
The problem with the 250s was that Honda and Yamaha essentially abandoned the class leaving the Aprilia squad as the de-facto team to beat. For a while, there were Hondas and Yamahas on the grid, but they stopped getting factory development long before they left. During that time Aprilia was able to consolidate its position as the best bike in the class. The 250 class didn't become the Aprilia cup because of an evil Aprilia master plan, but because it was left to them and they made some pretty savvy moves.
Now the way I see it with Moto2 is tat it could very easily head in that same direction. It is my understanding that the majority of the bikes on the field amount to nothing more than customer bikes, the teams buy them. That means that there is very little vested interest in a team staying with any particular builder to try and catch up to the competition. Attrition will be very high as the weaker builders fall by the way side and the stronger builders gain market share. Without some sort of mechanism to keep some of the weaker players in the game (vested factory interest) the field will continue to dwindle until the Aprilia scenerio becomes reality.
Of course you could change the format every few years to keep that from happening (a reset which would have kept the two strokes viable as well), but as we have seen in MotoGP all that does is opens a new can of worms.
Personally I am hoping for the 250/500/1000cc to become reality. I really would like to see the likes of Aprilia, KTM and others return to the fold. The current Moto2 structure does not lend itself to any of the OEMs entering the class except for Honda.
The more interviews from riders the better, I say.
Any chance of having a separate link at the top of the page
just for "rider interviews"?
The video was shot at Yamaha's HQ in Iwata, Japan
Perhaps Mortegi? Was it a dealership or muesem or garage? Curious if anyone knows?
Definitely enjoyed thanks
Hernandez will probably be at BQR. Updated the story to reflect this.
I guess you could consider that a drastic reduction, but the reality is that so many manufacturers were never going to survive long term. And I doubt anyone, including the rulemakers, expected anything else. It was sort of built into the architecture if you like that only a certain percentage would survive.
As far as the likes of Suter gaining a stranglehold on Moto2, I'm just not willing to jump on that bandwagon without a crystal ball. And unfortunately they don't exist. David definitely made a valid point as far as the growing comparison between them and Aprillia, but I just dont think the way Moto2 is setup will allow any one builder to utterly dominate the way Aprillia did. In 250cc, no-one even considered going toe to to with them. Honda sort of kept up appearances, and the odd mark came along every so often, but Aprillia was basically a heavyweight who's only potential opponents were amatuer lightweights with no intention of fighting mike tyson. The good thing about Moto2 is that for the playing field is much more level.
Of course natural selection will take it's course. That I cant argue with. I just dont think the future is quite as gloomy as you believe.
Aw shucks, I'd like to see what Yonni Hernandez would do with a different chassis. I love watching him and Simon sliding their bikes around.