2016 Season Predictions

So.. Anyone willing to lay down some season predictions? Figured I would throw out 5 predictions and see how I did at the end of the season.

1 – Yamaha & Honda signs their current riders for 2017 & 2018.

2- Maverick Vinales proves he is the next alien and is competitive for podiums in 5 plus races, getting at least 1.

3 – Ducati wins a race in 2016. (Have a dumpster bet on this, so it had to be one of my predictions.)

4 – Rossi and Marguez continues the “lip service” to each other, BUT, there is no on the track event, other than normal hard racing. Neither crashes the other or is penalized.

5 – Jorge takes the championship, easier than most are expecting. No last race excitement this year.

Good thread WV.

My Prediction: Rossi 2016 World "Champion"

Its the prediction I alway make because its rigged in his favor.

I also predict we will have some significant crashes by Marquez and Lorenzo, not Rossi because he doesn't push. Ducati win a race, so you will get that double wide dumpster.

If they have reverted to the 2015 the chassis, (anyone know whether this has been confirmed?)- first podium for Viñales. In fact, Maverick may well single handedly loose the concessions for the Zook.

Romano Fenati first to a race ban.

The rear Michelin's excessively loading the front will be an initial problem particularly for some Honda riders. Although HRC will quickly remedy the problem it will mysteriously remain at LCR where Checchinello will force Cal at gunpoint to remortgage his recently purchased Montalcino Tuscan renaissance Villa to pay for the damage.

Improbable as it seems it is within the realms of possibility that Karel Hanika might actually finish a race.

McPhee to replace Lowes as the unluckiest man on a motorcycle.

Before a wheel is turned in anger, someone will say 'for sure' in an interview.

Julian to finally loose his patience and dignity and drop Keith Huewen with a lightening right hand ....

Zarco's season ends prematurely after attempting a triple pike with straddle off the wall at Aragon.

Miller to re-cultivate the mullet and the Toseland's top knot alongside other tonsorial tomfoolery to also return.

Tito to be replaced by HarryJones05.

Libby to develop another equally unhealthy obsession; this time with Baldassarri when stalking the factory Yamaha garage she overhears someone calling him Lorenzo.

In the UEFA European Championship final between Italy and France, Verratti will call Karim Benzema the son of an Algerian whore, who will then nut him and get sent off. Italy score, park the bus against ten man France and emerge as victors. Rossi will win at Sachsenring having miraculously found several tenths in morning warm up, and mount the rostrum having donned an Azzurri top with Verratti emblazoned on the back. Michelin promptly divert his future covert tyre allocation to Eugene Laverty who finishes in front of The 'Doctored' for every remaining race of the season. Rossi has a clandestine meeting with Goubert and Ezzy in his motorhome and the 16.5 rim is reinstated at Rossi's behest for 2017...but only for him...and Gary McCoy, who persuaded by Michelin comes out of retirement and makes Valentino look like an amateur again. Rossi quits mid season and thousands of yellow clad 'cults' converge on a Tavullian pilgrimage to commit mass suicide on the hillside by inhaling mustard gas and ritually drowning themselves in large vats of custard.