MotoGP | 2024 | Silly Season

Same... I can struggle through Spanish and Italian. A few more I can say enough to come across as a stupido Americano attempting to be polite and put in a little effort

Since I find myself in Italy so much, I really need to spend some time over the winter picking up more. There's a really great channel on the tubes of someone teaching Italian. I could listen to her all day. Search Kylie Flavell. Her productions are top notch.

 

it’s a different world now for sure with all the information at your fingertips…. There’s a bunch to be said about cultural immersion to learn a language… way more fun…

 

Cultural immersion has given me the ability to readily locate beer and whores in many third world nations.

 

German no problem. French I can fumble through. Spanish and Portuguese? Almost nothing. Eye-talian? Rossi this and Rossi that and Ferrari and who gives a shit . . . Who cares, they’re barely a country.

 

https://www.the-race.com/motogp/nas...s-motogp-2024-pitbull-rnf-aprilia-cryptodata/
This is interesting

 

"Pitbull." <snort>

 

Official: Fabio Di Giannantonio will ride for the VR46 MotoGP team in 2024

 

Official for HRC and Marini too

 

Dorna throws down a massive smackdown

https://www.crash.net/motogp/news/1042249/1/cryptodata-rnf-motogp-team-loses-motogp-grid-places

 

Yeah that’s a huge move. Interested to see who steps up to run the team now as it specifically says that they are tied to aprillia bikes and riders.

 

The conspiracy goes that this move is so VR can get his NSR500 Honda finally

 

so he gives up his brother to the factory team, just so he can get his NSR500....uhhh yeahhh..about that

 

Doesn’t have to pay his brother to hang around and for his racing anymore. Maybe he can start getting paid back on his investment now.

 

And so it begins

 

I find it interesting that Dorna's press release says RNF had repeatedly breach their agreement "affecting the public image of Motogp". If the breach was just about failing to pay Aprilia/Dorna, I would NOT think that would affect the "public image of Motogp".

I wonder what they're talking about.

Having said that, so many of these Crypto companies have turned out to be either scammy, or just plain scams. Hopefully Motogp and it's teams realize that getting a few more $ from a start-up company (rather than a well-established company, or at least a start-up in an established market) is not worth the likelihood that the deal will not be upheld through its full term.

 

What image???

 

Anyone know why Joe Roberts wasn't in the test today?

 

Probably nothing to test. Or he has a very important selfie photo shoot with him modeling some new toy with that same exact expression on his face that he always has?

 

MM93 new pit box in Gresini Baby Blue

 

Blue Steel?