MotoGP | 2024 | Silly Season

So Dorna wants to get the grid down to 20 bikes, so no hope of 6 KTM bikes and a MM93/Acosta combo

https://www.crash.net/motogp/news/1030040/1/ktm-s-dream-two-extra-bikes-and-marquez-shut-down

AMarquez is staying at Gresini
Trying to Get Bez a Factory bike but stay at VR46
https://www.crash.net/motogp/news/1...-ducati-request-morbidelli-considered-gresini

 

Maybe Honda will help them out with that.

 

so Pirelli is official for M2/M3

 

20 makes zero sense. It's probably just dorna not wanting to have to ship the bikes everywhere etc.

 

20 bikes? So who's out......LCR? Gresini? Yamaha?

 

Exactly why it doesn't make sense

 

Rumors of Rins to factory Yamaha?

I guess in a storm any port will do.

 

To quote the article:

MotoGP sporting director Carlos Ezpeleta told Radio Catalunya: "That we will have more than 22 bikes is not foreseen.

“From now, for us, the ideal amount is 20.”

Nobody is out, for now....


It would make more sense if he was talking about number of races mindewe....

 

If they all fit on the same number of airplanes, it's only a marginal, probably inconsequential extra cost.

If I had to guess, I would say it saves them the millions of euros in subsidies to each additional satellite team, and fewer people to share the revenues.

I suppose it doesn't matter much to them to see guys that are good enough to be of the show have to get out because careers have gotten longer for the more successful guys, which makes turnover lower, and that is in conflict with the commitment to promoting the top guys from the support classes all the way to the top. I would be curious to know what their reasoning is.

 

At least the Yammi doesn't throw you down the road and try to kill you every time you go out.

 

It honestly reads as a power play to me.

 

The Honda won't either if you just ride around in 18th

 

Aren't they down to something like 18 at this point, with all the injuries? I've lost track.

 

Umm, Mir?

 

I heard that was Rossi’s plan the last 5 years or so?

 

Was he 18th? Thought it was like 10-12th?

 

Petrucci and Mir both have the same amount of points. 5!

 

And Pedrosa is beating them both.

 

Is it too much to wish to see Marc and Acosta on Factory Honda, but for Honda to start purchasing customer bikes from KTM and swapping bodywork?

 

If they cut the grid to twenty bikes then they should only award points down to tenth or twelfth.