So, a new season and a new start- but we all know what people will be talking about before the lights go out at round one.
However, how’s about Dani Pedrosa for a shot at a championship? I wont count him out!
It will take me a while to forget last season and start watching again (which is a PITA without BT sport) …..maybe 2017/18.
Superbikes will fill the gap.
Thoroughly enjoyed last year, apart from the obvious, spoilt only by not being able to watch live.
Will be interesting to see who is stronger psychologically – I’d like to see Rossi and Marquez behaving like adults, but it’s not going to happen.
I have a huge amount of respect for Rossi, but he’s lost the mental advantage.
Be very interesting to see how he copes with people who he knows cannot be intimidated.
However, how’s about Dani Pedrosa for a shot at a championship? I wont count him out!
I too would love to see that as Dani has had so much bad luck in his career.
I just can’t see it happening with the way HRC are dancing to the tune of the Marquez clan. Dani is clearly a #2 rider now who is keeping the seat warm for the next big thing arriving.
I hope it’s not Maverick as I think the Marquez family would do everything in their power to keep him down. Hopefully he can get a set at Yamaha when the GOAT retires.
Stoner accepting a testing role at Ducati has a lot to do with the Marquez/HRC love-in too. He’s inferred that he wasn’t allowed to ride Dani’s bike when he had his op in case he embarrassed HRC’s wunderkind.
I think this year was a good year, certainly had its dramas. Personally I don’t care if Rossi did or didn’t or if Marquez did or didn’t, or for that matter if Lorenzo should or shouldn’t be WC.
What matters is what happens next.
And above all there’s new rules which hopefully should level the playing field a bit….
I’m more curious about Moto2 and how Lowes and Webb go, I reckon Lowes could push Zarco hard and get a few more wins.
MGP I want to see the Suzuki’s improve and see if Stoner gets back on the Duke.
Lorenzo will struggle with the grip from the front Michelin
Iannone will polish the floor with dovi
Rossi will continue to be mindfcuked by MM
Suzuki champion?
I’m not going to bother watching MotoGP this year. I didn’t bother to see the last race. It’s got too much like golf – the chaps in blazers have too much influence.
I’ll watch if Stoner is a wildcard though. 🙂
I will watch Moto2 though. Hopefully Danny Kent will continue his drive to the top.
Does anyone else think there will be a lot of booing the podium in 2016, social media seems divided between the Rossi fans and the Marquez fans. Lorenzo is copping heaps as well. Not sure MotoGP land is going to be a happy place.
Well, I for one can’t wait. I fell asleep during every WSB race I watched, and even BSB lacked it’s normal sparkle.
I just wish Rossi had not looked to his left during the Marquez incident. If’ he’d kept looking where he was going I feel that it would have been put down as a racing incident and quickly forgotten.
I reckon Pedrossa’s got perhaps his best chance of a title if he can maintain the form and maturity he found at the end of last season. Lorenzo can find a corner to curl upin and stay there until November. Marquez is fantastic to watch. I’d give a kidney to have half his talent on a bike, but I just can’t warm to him.
I want Rossi to win one more championship, or more, but that’s hoping for too much.
It’s funny how at one time Stoner used to get a lot of negativity (as did Vettel in F1 ….. and Lorenzo come to that) from fans the same way Marquez does now …. I wonder if in five or ten years time we’ll all be wishing the return of Marquez to show <insert name of future upcoming whippersnapper> the way home and put him/her* in their place!
I don’t think so, Marquez has been very aggressive on track in the past, more so than Rossi, where as Stoner just went quick and complained when he felt wronged.
My predictions, well, hopes too I guess (probably all wrong!):
The more basic electronics and new tyres will hurt Lorenzo and his metronomic style, but will hopefully allow the lesser factory squads and the satellites to get close.
MM, VR and Dani will ride round the problems and be the contenders at each race.
The Ducatis will do ok, hopefully Dovi will be up there (Dovi fan here since his 250 days).
Dani to stay injury-free and with any luck be up there for the title, he was the only one to come out of the end of last season with any kind of integrity.
Rossi will get the better of MM in the long run, experience will tell this year and MM will bin it too often (again) over the course of the season.
Stoner will spend all year setting up for a wildcard at PI and smoke everyone.
My homey #26 Pedrosa will bag the championship MotoGP 2016 and will wave the 26 flag in silverstone..yes you hear it from me first….. i know i keep saying this every year..but this season is the real deal.. place your bets now lads . #forzadani
I just get the impression that most of the Rossi uber fans I’ve spoken too in real life since the incident don’t seem interested in fairness, or motorcycle racing for that matter.
They just seem annoyed that their golden boy was judged to be in the wrong.
It’s an interesting phenomenon.
I wonder what they’ll do of a weekend when he retires?
🙂
it is the FIM Dorna and Honda who are the real culprits
Culprits in what sense?
What exactly have they done wrong?
Mine are simple hopes for this year. What ever happens on track happens, fingers crossed it’s good racing but please swap commentators on ITV. If I have to listen them every race say “every race is a home race for rossi” and “once lorenzo gets going he’s as consistent as a metronome” I’ll punch the TV!!!!
bring back the guys they had a year or two ago. Please?
FIM and Dorna engineered the result of the Championship by making up a story. Why was Rossi put to the back of the grid? It’s pretty simple really. Hondas said they had proof but now won’t release it.
racing bikes fairly is risky enough without the “authorities ” tilting the playing field.
I haven’t watched the footage since the Monday after – has anyone got a link to the helicopter footage Rossi claims exonerated him, or the clearest footage of the event?