The Official 2020 Silly Season Thread

Gerloff is now official for GRT.

 

There will not be a KTM Moto 2 bike next year. I haven't read the link but I believe he's moving to Ajo's team, which is currently running the factory KTM squad.

 

No, he's going to be Pol's teammate next year apparently...

 

binder is probably super happy.

 

Yea, definitely seems odd to promote him over Binder. I know Lecuona has consistently beat his teammate Joe Roberts this year.

 

Could honda get rid of Lorenzo so late in the season for next season?

 

Yeah, it'd be just releasing him for 2020. I bet he finishes out the year and is gone.

 

Wait, what? They rescinded Binder's promotion to MotoGP?!

 

KTM promised not to poach Tech 3 riders.

 

I thought he was going to Tech3 with Miguel Olivegarden.

 

All right, I got confused by Rob saying that Iker was promoted over Binder. So Iker over Kallio?

 

yup...

 

That smells like a Quartararo gamble. I'm not sure he wouldn't benefit from an extra year on a front-running Moto 2 team.

 

It smells mostly of empty drawers.

Choices were seriously limited in the eyes of KTM....

 

They could probably pick Lorenzo cheap in a few months.

If the Honder hasn't crippled him by then.

 

Mentally or physically?...

 

Physically. I think, if he can still walk, he'll come out of Honder even stronger mentally.

Would just need the right bike to show it <cough cough suzuki>

 

I'm not a Lorenzo fan by any stretch, but I bet he'd do well on the Suzuki once he's back to almost full health.

 

How long will it take him to get use to the change of tires?

 

Maybe I worded that wrong? To me Iker going all the way to factory KTM and Binder only going to Tech3 seems like Iker got a promotion over Binder.