The Official 2020 Silly Season Thread

Age? And depends if he can afford to ride what they have to offer.

 

As far as I know, Cam won't just take a ride to ride in WSBK. He wants a front runner and isn't riding for free (or pennies) when he can butter his bread here in America. He's had offers.

 

Mine too. But put them both on it for a season. My money is on The Ben. But I’m a fanboy.

 

Where's Benny Solis been? I know he went to CIV Moto 2 but he's been a ghost since beginning of summer.

 

My take on it is Cam would take the right ride if it was presented to him but is fairly content with racing in the US. He has raced overseas and knows how draining and all consuming it can be. Maybe he has a little less to prove too himself also...
Where Garrett was actively wanting to get over there and has something to prove. It Has been his goal since the beginning to
Race overseas.
Maybe just maybe if things go well this coming year American riders will start to be seen as a Viable option for seats again.
JMO

 

Funny, this morning I was thinking about that and went to look on facebook. Nothing since May?

 

I know SDK wants to find a way to go back racing overseas as well. Same with Rocco.

I remember he had banged up his hip real bad during practice for one of the races just before the summer. I believe he and the team he was on split ways during the summer (maybe Benny needed the time to heal).

 

Rocco said he's going to the European talent cup next year. Wasn't SDK overseas for a while? IMO it's tough for an American to go to any of the GP classes overseas if you don't come with loads of dinero. We've seen this on a repetitive basis but we can always hope somebody will buck the trend.

I don't fb but I saw Benny was doing some rehab stuff back then. A split makes sense if he wasn't getting results and kept hurting himself. Maybe he'll pop up at chuckwalla this winter

 

Yeah, I don’t think ANY American can make it over there without being in the right environment. Period. The only way to do that is like Spies and others, be dominant in the premier class here and land a top ride there. If you aren’t a podium contender here in the Superbike class and can’t land a top seat over there all you will accomplish is making American Riders look bad and diminish their value.
JMO

Rocco will most likely do very well in whatever Cup he is looking at doing and that is a bit different IMO.

 

Yes he was. I talked to him at Homestead this weekend and he told me that he wants to make it back to Europe. As if right now, he will be doing the SS600 season again with Team Hammer.

Also, Rocco raced in Europe for a few years on mini bikes.

 

Well, Leon had a good run....

https://www.crash.net/wsbk/news/930976/1/kawasaki-confirms-haslam-split

 

Seems like Dorna talk about not coming back to Laguna for WSBK every single year...

http://www.speedweek.com/sbk/news/150169/Superbike-Kalender-2020-Deutschland-rein-USA-raus.html

 

I have a feeling an 11th hour deal will be struck again, especially if Gerloff is confirmed.

I also wonder why Indianapolis is ruled out. To me it almost makes more sense to run there than it does to run at Laguna.

 

Ah, gotcha. If I recall correctly, the last MotoGP race at Indy had the best ever attendance figures there, so it always struck me as odd that they pulled the plug when interest was at its peak and growing year over year.

Maybe they can pen a deal since MotoAmerica has already committed to Indy for 2020? Would be nice...

 

Not sure how to read this:

"There are hardly any alternatives to Laguna Seca: Austin, Indianapolis and Miller are out of the question. In the US MotoAmerica series, only Barber Motorsport Park in Alabama, to the west of Atlanta, has a SBK event - but not before 2021."

As said above, I'm not sure why Austin and Indy are discounted straight off, but what do they mean about Barber? Is there a SBK round scheduled there in the future that I haven't heard about or just a bad translation?

 

https://www.asphaltandrubber.com/wsbk/garrett-gerloff-worldsbk-2020/

 

Zarco to Lcr Honda for 3 rounds.

 

Now that, for many reasons, is really weird....