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The Alvaro Bautista 2019 Win Count

Discussion in 'General' started by ChemGuy, Feb 25, 2019.

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  1. racesbikes

    racesbikes WTB a Size 50/60 Race Suit

    Yes, his dad was banned from the pits for always complaining (incorrectly) that Niall McKenzie got better Yamaha equipment than his son.
     
  2. Johnny B

    Johnny B Cone Rights Activist

    Yeah, funny how that worked out. Ruggia got to pick which of his two bikes he would run in the race after second practice, giving the rejected bike to Niall.
     
  3. HPPT

    HPPT !!!

    Yamaha did that at the Sepang winter tests to prove to The Ben that Rossi wasn't going to get better bikes. (before any bike was fired up, though. So not exactly the same situation, but close enough.)
     
  4. Resident Plarp

    Resident Plarp drittsekkmanufacturing.com

    Careless Chucka’ - both him and Xaus were cool cats in the paddock. How’s Lowes? Are the crashers in general mostly laidback blokes?
     
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  5. Potts N Pans

    Potts N Pans Well-Known Member

    :D

    I hope they cool. If not, the people taking care if them and rebuilding their bikes wont do it for long.
     
  6. ChemGuy

    ChemGuy Harden The F%@# Up!

    So no one else wanted to update this one... I guess Ill have to keep doing it.

    16/17 march 2019 Thailand
    Race 1 AB
    Race 2 AB
     
  7. ChemGuy

    ChemGuy Harden The F%@# Up!

    6/7 April 2019 Aragon
    Race 1 AB
    Race 2 AB

    Total wins so far...6.
     
  8. Rising

    Rising Well-Known Member

    To prove to Ben or to prove to Mary?:D
     
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  9. HPPT

    HPPT !!!

    :D
     
  10. HPPT

    HPPT !!!

    I have a question for those who feel that Bautista is proving that Rea was never good enough for MotoGP. This hypothetical scenario crossed my mind last night.

    Suppose they'd moved the top six MotoGP riders behind Marquez (let's be real here) to WSBK this year and given each of them the choice of a factory Yamaha or Kawasaki, whichever worked best for each. So the hypothetical 2019 WSBK field would be the current top 14 superbike riders plus those six new guys (I'm guessing Dovi, Lorenzo, Crutchlow, Rossi, Viñales, Rins, give or take a name or two, doesn't really matter so long as we leave Marquez out).

    Does anyone actually believe that Bautista couldn't win that championship on his Ducati V4?

    Go. :D
     
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  11. rd49

    rd49 Well-Known Member

    Don’t you mean “could win”?
     
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  12. fastedyamaha

    fastedyamaha Well-Known Member

    Compared to Rossi or Lorenzo? No way he wins against them. They have too much skill and ability.
     
  13. HPPT

    HPPT !!!

    Nope. :D
     
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  14. ryoung57

    ryoung57 Off his meds

    Rossi would win every WSBK race on an R6! Didn't he crush WSBK records on a fairly stockish R1 with a broken leg?
     
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  15. CB186

    CB186 go f@ck yourself

    Any of them could win it. The likelyhood of him winning it would be greatly reduced, but he'd still have a chance.
     
  16. HPPT

    HPPT !!!

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  17. tzrider

    tzrider CZrider

    After tasting the factory team at PI last year and the way he's doing this year, I highly doubt the 34 year old Alvaro would go back to motoGP for Pramac.

    Then again, he doesn't seem the brightest bulb in the paddock.
     
  18. pscook

    pscook Well-Known Member

    This assumes that he wants to return to MotoGP. Maybe he enjoys the big fish in a little pond situation and would rather continue to extract maximum financial gain and the concurrent celebrity status. Unless Ducati has options to exercise that don't necessarily take Alvaro's personal wishes into consideration.
     
  19. cpettit

    cpettit Well-Known Member

    Also.... why would they quit when they are winning? That’s not that much loot for a company their size. Look what they paid Lorenzo and Rossi to ride for them. If either of them had gone on a tear like this Ducati would possibly be cringing though.
     
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  20. Dan Dubeau

    Dan Dubeau Well-Known Member

    I never understood stuff like that. It's like a company complaining about how much a salesman makes in commission. "we only payed the last salesman 30k/yr, and you cost 100k/yr. Therefore you cost too much". Failing to realize that 100k/yr salesman brought in more more revenue for the company.....

    Bautista dominating on the V4 is surely going to be a big boost to the sales dept that should more than cover the win bonus. If it doesn't than the jackass bean counter at Ducati who agreed to that contract needs to be fired.
     
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