The Official 2021 Silly Season Thread

Startin' early

https://www.crash.net/motogp/feature/935092/1/how-motogp-s-2021-silly-season-shaping

 

Fresh meat.

 

Geez, I forgot and clicked the link. Pop out, pop up, auto video, noise central!

 

So what are some baseless predictions we can go ahead and predict now?

Viñales or Fabio to Ducati
Alex Marquez to Suzuki with Rins.
Cruthlow hangs up the boots. Nakagami gets the factory LCR ride and a newcomer from Moto 2 to satellite Honda.
Olivera leaves KTM for Petronas Yamaha.
Iannone back on a satellite Ducati team.
Asparagus brothers stay put OR Pol to Repsol Honda.
MM stays with Honda
Rossi retires if he doesn't win one of the first 3 races.

 

Iannone back to Ducati? No way in shit, he’ll be off to wsbk, if he’s lucky.

Rossi and Crutchlow retire

 

https://motomatters.com/analysis/2019/12/20/the_coming_storm_how_motogp_s_silly.html

 

Rossi and Crutchlow retire.

Unless Dovi wins the first 4 races of 2020, he wont be on the factory Ducati. Petrux will be looking for a new ride. They will offer one of the factory seats to Miller. If Zarco does well on the Avintia, then I see him promoted to Pramac.

If Yamaha is still painfully slow then I see Maverick moving on to Ducati. Fabio takes one of the two vacated seats on the factory Yamaha.

Unless Mir starts beating Rins every week, then I see him getting replaced at Suzuki.

Everyone else is a toss up.

 

Mir was been wheeling pretty good sans the Fabio season. I could see him hitting Repsol or Duc

 

Da fuq?

 

I concur with your prediction. Spot on....

 

Had Fabio not raced Mir did decent

 

Early? Actual you rather late... http://forums.13x.com/index.php?threads/the-official-2021-silly-season-thread.363492/

 

[ WARNING ]

Tomorrow is Dec 28th, we may get weird rumours coming out of Spain....

 

Reported

 

Reported

 

Worth a double, eh?

If I were you, I'd hope for it, because it might allow for a jump to F1 where he has a better shot at #10.

 

That would give hope to all the Uccios that he could take GOAT status from the real GOAT, John Surtees.

 

Apparently, Rossi doesn’t have the budget for his own MotoGP team for 2021

 

He's made it pretty clear that he wants to stick with developing riders in Moto3 and Moto2, then just pawn them off on existing teams in MotoGP. It worked pretty well for Morbidelli and Bagnaia already, so why buy the cow when you're already getting the milk for free?

 

I can't believe I'm writing this but please, someone tell him to get some kind of hair cut..... Anything!

It surprising the MKT Dept let him show up like that!