Looks like Dani might miss the next GP after Zarco punted him off in Argentina he's had surgery on his wrist and it looks like it will be Jerez before he's back
Crutchlow is a piss poor rider in my view. Three wins and commentators say he’s a real champion. FFS surprised he can find the bike without being led to it ! As to why you get so many Spaniards and Italian riders, they actually run bike racing series to encourage and train their potential riders. We don’t so when some one with a bit of talent comes along unless they have a sponsor they don’t progress on.
What a lot of crap,,,,,,how can anyone who races in MotoGP be a piss poor rider, let alone win a world championship event in any discipline. I suppose John McPhee is an even piss poor x2 rider then in your eyes.
Crutchlow doesn’t have the talent that some ascribe to him. Ok my comments are very harsh. If he ever gets in the situation where he could win a championship,I would expect to see pigs flying to me he doesn’t have the level of talent that’s needed. Zarco is to my view the most promising rider at present, along with Rins ( think that’s the guy on the Suzuki) and far more likely than Crutchlow to ever win a championship.
I think quite a lot of the needle we are seeing goes back to traditional Spanish/Italian emnity that started with Spain being part of the Roman Empire for 200 years longer than we were! Throw in some rogue Spaniards who became Popes (the Borgias) and the Spanish whip hand over Europe while Italy was squabbling city states and you have a brew exacerbated by recent national fitba’ results.......and look who runs our sport!
To say anyone who competes in Moto Gp is anything but a great rider is total nonsense Cal has won the British Supersport title and the World Supersport title,and getting 3 wins competing with the very best motorbike racers on the planet is no mean feat.Nicky Hayden who won the 2006 Moto GP championship only ever had 3 wins and he was in Moto GP for 13 years! Colin Edwards twice World superbike champion was in Moto GP for 11 years without winning a race..the level in Moto GP now is the highest i have ever known it which makes his achievements even more impressive,as for crashing all the best riders crash ..you have to go over the limit to find the limit.. and every circuit is different and weather and tyres play a huge part..for example Marquez crashed 27 times last season finding the limit
Considering this is the first season in MotoGP on the latest works machinery he is not doing too badly. Don’t get me wrong, he would not be my first choice to prop up a bar but until you walked a mile in his bootees.......he led and chased Dovi pretty well on Tech 3s. If you are looking for a charisma bypass Jorge is your man.
Apparently the Honda is by far the hardest bike to ride according to everyone in the know,the best handling by far seems to be the bike Zarco is on,it would be interesting to see him trying to tame the Honda
Let's cut out all the crap about this rider that rider etc, Bin the electronic aids that make it so much easier to nail the throttle, scrap the 1000 cc four strokes, ignore Euro 4,5,6 and whatever the next one is, bring back the 500 two strokes then we will all see who is the best rider! Being a classified old fart I remember the 500 class racing and how hard the bikes were to ride unfortunately beaurocracy took over and that was it for the two strokes but my were they good to hear and watch!
Yep remember them well, the speed,sound and smell superb. Also for me some of the hardest gp bikes to ride were from the golden age of race bike technology, the mid to late 60’s. Singles, twins, three,four, five and six cylinder machines, two and four stroke. Ok they didn’t have the vicious power delivery of the 500,700 or 750 two strokes but still hard to ride at race winning pace.
More than enough to see how poor Crutchlow is. I prefer BSB much more exciting and closer racing. Should be an entertaining season as well this year as there a fair few promising riders that look as though they may knock Shakey off his perch.
https://www.motorcyclenews.com/sport/motogp/2018/april/motogp-track-drama-ahead-in-austin/ Well, 12 months apparently were not enough to fix the surface condition at the COTA. With so many awesome circuits around the world (including Laguna Seca) one begs the question as to why are organizers insisting on taking the MotoGP circus to such an unprepared venue?
Laguna Seca was part of the calendar until 2013. I don't know exactly why it was dropped but I don't think it was due to safety. And considering the surface issues at COTA, it doesn't look like safety ranks too high with Dorna.
