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I quite like the drip-feed of championships being decided. We had MotoE (which had to stop as it was the last race.) We had the Moto3 championship being decided. It's quite like that the Moto2 championship will be decided in the next race or two. And then maybe MotoGP at the last race.
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That is quite the prediction there.
Being that fac spec bikes will go down to only 3 and he is on one isn't really that big of a prediction. Wanna have a real dark horse prediction? Put your money one someone not on a Duc.
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Hmm... I think it is a big prediction. Imagine if someone had predicted that Morbidelli would win this year. With only three GP25s, maybe the odds have narrowed. But, with Marc being on a factory GP25, I think the odds then stretch out again.
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Morbidelli was new on the Ducati and was coming off some .... results. I think most of us figured he would do better than he has one the current spec bike. No one would argue he is underperforming. Digia has won on the ducati already and proven he can ride it. Digia on the other hand should finish top 3 or its kind of a bust. Whoever is on that bike should be considered most likely to be top 3. Especially losing Jorge and beast to shittier bikes. I expect the difference between the 24 and 25 to be less than the difference between the 24 and 23 duc in rideability but still Ducati is losing their deep talent pool.
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My personal opinion is that Marc Marquez on the factory Ducati equalises all of that and more. 2nd or 3rd in the championship is a very different prediction than 1st. which is what I'm focussed on. This year MM93 is new on the Ducati, and he has well over twice the number of points than the more experienced Digia, and has three wins to Digia's none. Digia doesn't even have a podium, while Marc has nine. (Just counting feature races). I can't see the chance of Digia beating MM93 next year being more than very small indeed.
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Knowing how this season has been going it would be nothing short of a miracle if the both stay upright for the next 3 sprints and 3 races.
There are three races left and Jörg is still far away from the finish line. It's admirable how he managed to stay in the championship fight though.His win today does evoke this sort of hyperbole, doesn’t it? I pray the Aprilla is quick next year. Jorge is a great talent himself. Of course, Marc is a step ahead.
When it was announced he'd leave Ducati I thought he was gonna put too much pressure on himself because this will be his only shot at the title for some time and that Ducati would pull all support from him.
Neither happened and he's been doing one hell of a job all year.
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Is someone going to make a Burinam thread soon? There is a lot to discuss.
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ditto!
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I was actually watching Jorge, he had his head down low in the attack position so early, he wasn't ....... around, ready for battle.
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I am interested to see how KTM go next year too. They have the rider in Acosta it seems. They need to provide him with the bike to keep him I reckon. Dunno how long his contract is and the formula changes in 2 more years, but 2 more years on a sub standard bike seems too long.
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I’d like to see Martin win the championship as he might not get the opportunity to be world champion for a number of seasons, also fab to see a satellite team take the rider world championship. Not anticipating Martin to do in 2025 like Toprak this year in WSBK but of course I’d love to see a different manufacturer win
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What should happen is they both decide independently to race each other and not Marquez - then there'd be a better chance of both finishing all their races.
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Done. Tho as has been said before, anyone can start the next race thread. There's no grand Illuminati tradition about that.
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Pedro Acosta to continue Red Bull KTM story with fresh MotoGP™ contract
A couple of years seems to be the offical line.
That means that HRC can have an Acosta - Toprak line up for 2027!
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If we tally up all the podiums this year, both Sprint and Race, ie 102 podiums we see that M Marquez has done 18 of the 20 GP23 podiums and podiums by GP24 makes up 59 of them being 58 by Martin/Bezzecchi/Bastainini and 1 by Morbidelli. The data suggests that next year will be between Bezzecchi and M Marquez. We will see Martin on the podium but not in the championship fight.
Bike | Podiums (Sprint & Race) |
Aprilia | 9 |
GP23 | 20 |
GP24 | 59 |
Honda | 0 |
KTM | 14 |
Yamaha | 0 |
Total Result | 102 |
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Presumably by Bezzechi you mean Bagnaia?
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Are we ruling out BMW joining in 2027 already?
They just won SBK so MotoGP would be the logical next step.
Even when they're winning in SBK, they're getting a fraction of the attention they could get in MotoGP.
I don't think it's been ruled out yet.
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Here is the difference between personalities.
Bag is complaining Alex incident is the cause of his points deficit.
Marc has never been whining about anything. Because whining does not change the reality. If something is wrong and it can be fixed then fix it, if it cannot be fixed then whining won't help, either. Only makes you look weak.
Once again the question about losing a match because of a bad line call comes to mind. Federer's response to this question was: If I lose a match because of one bad call then I wasn't strong enough to win it.
In Bagnaia's case there is another point to be made. Regardless who's fault it was, you did not ride like a champion material.
Bag is complaining Alex incident is the cause of his points deficit.
Marc has never been whining about anything. Because whining does not change the reality. If something is wrong and it can be fixed then fix it, if it cannot be fixed then whining won't help, either. Only makes you look weak.
Once again the question about losing a match because of a bad line call comes to mind. Federer's response to this question was: If I lose a match because of one bad call then I wasn't strong enough to win it.
In Bagnaia's case there is another point to be made. Regardless who's fault it was, you did not ride like a champion material.
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