The Official 2020 Silly Season Thread

Yeah, his hair was died silver. And it was raining.

They said that Marquez had a MotoGP exit clause on the extension he signed a few weeks back.

 

Makes sense. I just figured the talking heads would have mentioned it (that or I simply missed it every time it was mentioned or written).

BTW, I thought Can was sent packing, I guess what was meant is 'will be sent packing after Valencia'?....

 

Yeah, he doesn't have a ride for next year. At one point when he was hurt and replaced by his brother, there was heavy speculation that he wasn't even coming back this year.

And as recently as maybe three or four weeks ago, they were saying that his brother was in the same situation. But based on what was posted above, Tech 3 stepped up to the plate.

 

https://twitter.com/motomatters/status/1196111389045248001

 

So testing starts tomorrow. Do they announce Alex today?

 

Campinoti said Miller or Petrux aren’t going anywhere and mocked the tv commentators ab it for “solidifying “ rumors, out of the urge to be first with news before twitter etc

Zarco is said to have passed up the avinta deal for it not being a factory ride

 

http://www.worldsbk.com/en/news/2020/Can nc joins WorldSSP grid with allnew Turkish Racing Team

Can Oncu going to WorldSSP with Puccetti Kawi.. interesting to see a young GP talent switch paddocks so soon. Kenan must've made quite the sweet deal for him.

 

I was hoping he’d do well in moto3. He went backwards after his debut.

 

I've been wondering who gets a new Crash Count thread. Alex Lowes will surely make mincemeat of that Kawi.

 

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1196420236150497280

 

wouldn’t be hard to give them a factory bike with support much like Pramac.

depends on how bad they want zarco.....

 

Maybe surprised isn't the right word, but I would've picked Zarco over AM for the Honda ride.
He did well on the LCR and is definitely still hungry.
Going to Moto2 wouldn't be the worst thing in the world but I'd like to see him stay in MotoGP.

 

I'm a little behind on this, if avintia were to sign him, who gets the axe? Rabat or Abraham?

Really, for Ducati this is perfect. They see if he can go and they don't move aside someone who won't come apart like a hong kong rolex and if goes well, he he does go well he might be inline for one of the open seas in 2021.

Meh, Zarco will do something stupid to f@ck things up even further.

 

agreed.

 

Alex Marquez gets the ride.

https://www.crash.net/motogp/news/934352/1/official-alex-marquez-gets-repsol-honda-ride

 

Meanwhile Avintia is stepping up from an independent to a satellite team with GP19’s.

 

this is fucking insane. seriously. he does NOT deserve that ride. maybe SOME ride, but not the premier one on the premier team/bike. it took this fuckin nerd 5 years to get a title here, and BARELY.

he beat binder by 3 points and the KTM didn't even work for the first half of the damn season. luthi by only 12.
he was 4th last year and 30 down on binder and got crushed by bagnaia and oliveira.
100 points less than morbidelli the year before that. 200 less than zarco and 13th the year before THAT! GTFO of here haha!

there's no dominance anywhere there that shows one deserving of Repsol anything.

 

There is big brother and Honda needs to keep big brother happy.

 

Satellite teams and independent teams on the same thing, as far as I can tell.

And Ducati announced at least a couple of months ago that they were finished with having more than two model years on the grid.