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Sennas_Caress said:
This season, we'll be having 20 GPs and 20 sprints.

If DiGi averages 25 points per weekend, he'll be collecting 500 points in 25. About the level of Martin, if he can grab another twentyish points.
So 3rd in each sprint and 4th in the GP.

Not that far fetched...
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IF. And what data is there to give confidence that would even happen?

He has averaged 11.4 points in the 18 races he competed this season.
Marc Marquez (leading GP23) has averaged 19.4 points in the 19 races so far.
The other 2 GP23's have averaged 8.15 and 7.57 points respectively.

Even if you say he has a season as good as Bastiannini has had this yr, that's still only 19.3 points per race.

I'm open to being proven wrong, but at present I disagree about it not being far fetched.
 
AnnoyingTwit said:
I wonder why it's only one year. And which party it was that decided it was only one year. It seems to me that test riders seem to stick with a manufacturer for a long time. Evidence: Bradl and Pirro.
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He is a little different than those guys though, a highly elite gp rider, 3 time junior class champion, perhaps contends with Randy Mamola as the best premier class rider never to win a title, certainly has the most wins of any rider without winning the title, and must have been paid bucketloads of money by Honda. So presumably he is doing the test riding as an interest, and neither needs nor wants to do it forever.
 
I'm not sure exactly how the proposed 'F1 Post-Season Rookie Sprint Race' will work. But, I wonder if something like that could work in MotoGP.

Guessing/filling in gaps, maybe the race could take part in the post-season test. Riders who haven't competed in MotoGP (or some more complex formula for exceptions such as no more than N races in MotoGP that year and/or no more than M races in MotoGP in total) could be selected by teams from the Moto3 and Moto2 grids, and elsewhere. EDIT: Including various superbike championships would be interesting. They could then go through testing, qualifying, and a sprint race on MotoGP equipment. I'm not sure of a lot of things, such as would the teams be keen on this. I'm guessing riders would be. But, it sounds a good idea to me and I'd like to see it considered.
 
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AnnoyingTwit said:
I wonder why it's only one year. And which party it was that decided it was only one year. It seems to me that test riders seem to stick with a manufacturer for a long time. Evidence: Bradl and Pirro.
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Financially things at KTM are not in the best of shape as a whole, perhaps they are being more cautious about preserving capital over the long haul.
 
MichaelBolton said:
Don't know how legit these sources are. Yes, energy drink sponsorships aren't much of a serious matter for us but I still expected him to simply pause his RB sponsorship given his ties with the brand and also that his manager works directly for Red Bull.


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Good, if I have to have an Energy Drink I prefer Monster anyway. Red Bull tastes horrible.
 

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