Another WSBK rider that will do more harm than good, riding around 2.5 seconds off the pace and compounding the view that wsbk riders aren’t fast enough. my gosh that’s the most armchair racer comment I’ve made I think
If youre going on current form Loca but i guess Remys previous experience helped swing it. Youre right though they hardly have a talent pool with much depth or recent success to it.
I’m not so sure. IMO, he’s currently in the right place at the right time to win his second WSBK title. Yamaha is most definitely not the right place to be, right now. Andy
He won’t, he tested the Yamaha extensively and couldn’t get within a few seconds, and just didn’t get on with the bike. I think the decision to go to BMW was born out of not being that sure he could adapt to motogp
Isnt Toprak also a bit big and heavy anyway? To get in the top six, it seems every hp and gramne seems to be important these days.
Shame teams have overlooked the still competitive Zarco imo. Would have been a better bet than Rins and I think he was a previous Yamaha rider. Rins is one more crash away from permanent retirement.
Has Zarco ever won a race? And has been in the championship since 2014? Genuinely interested in the comparison, I think Rins has won a few Grand Prix at least but agree he loves a crash
Very slightly shorter than Marini but 13kg heavier. Between 20 and 25kg heavier than the MotoGP front runners. Andy
Just found this, https://motorcyclesports.net/motogp...e-gate-for-the-turisks-entry-at-the-category/. Thought I’d read somewhere, BMW might be considering entering MotoGP. Perhaps Toprak will influence that decision. Andy
They have the perfect two riders to develop an 800GP bike in smith and Guintoli but I wonder whether we’d have heard something more than just the odd rumour by now, especially as the latter and hodgy are such a pair of loose lipped gossips lol.
