It’ll be good to see him racing again. It’ll be interesting to see how he adapts to the faster cornering Yamaha’s, I just hope the SRT Yamaha’s are as good as the factory bikes so he can genuinely compete. I hope he does well.
Baptism of fire for him at Misano this weekend, at least when Vinales moved he was still actively racing in the top class and he had a 2 day test ahead of Aragon. Saying that he's jumping on a Yamaha which is a friendly bike at a track which he knows well, but with a new pit crew that needs to gel with him, a 2 year old bike that is towards the back of the field in terms of top speed and although he has ridden a GP bike in 10 months the tyres have moved on a bit also. I don't think he'll be last, but i don't expect him to be in the points. And a deal for 2022 also with a factory bike, this will be his swansong and topping up his pension pot I guess, you never know how he might fair next year.
Rain in both sessions today, 21st in the 2nd.... couple of test rider wildcards also (Pirro/Bradl). Looking good for the Ducati's though 1st, 2nd and 3rd in FP2
