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Dovi sabbatical

propagandhi

propagandhi

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Out for 2021 at least. Gives me a strong Mika Häkkinen vibe.
Could we see him in 2022 in Wsbk? Would perhaps BMW or Kawasaki (if our beloved Rea leaves) gather the funds?
Feel free to turn this into the Dovi apperciation thread.
I love that dude. No nonsense, clean, greatly underappreciated duc rider. Softspot for those
 
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He was underpaid when he was worth more, now the times have changed and he is not worth more for big guys in MotoGP. Ce la vie.
 
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I will miss his honest comment with respect to issues he faces when racing.

Some very, very impressive wins v Marquez.
 
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Yet, his success came when Lorenzo was in the team and it left him when Lorenzo left.
 
Sure I rate JL higher, but I don't credit JL to have created Dovi's final corner race craft and tyre management that enabled those wins to a large degree.
 
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I'll miss Dovi, especially his detailed and thoughtful comments.

However, there are some seriously promising young guns around to carry the torch forward. We're already witnessing one with his hand on the 2020 title.
 
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It's always hard to see the last guys from a certain generation leave the game. And Dovi was one of the really special ones.
 
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Who wants a test rider for one year? And then leaves with all development secrets and starts riding for another brand?

Edit: Emotions aside I don't think it is going to be sabbatical. Considering all circumstances I'd say - farewell. Dovi wants competitive ride with good pay. If I was a team boss with 3-4 young guns waiting behind my door, ready to ride for less, definitely going faster every year to come and possibly staying with team for many years to come - why should I hire an aging expensive ace who will get slower and then retire in a few years?

Last corner foxing technique was entertaining indeed, but to show it you have to get there with leaders.
 
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Remember how i proclaimed in 2012 that Rea would be the sbk goat as soon as he would get off the honda?
Time to polish my (crystal) balls again.

Dovi motogp champ on a repsol honda 2021
 
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Segfault said:
I usually rely on the feeling in my left testicle in cases like this ... hmm, it does not foresee this coming.
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listen to the lighter one. the one thats a bit higher is the important centimeter further away from assair/water.

dovi champ 21, lets go
 
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so mm93 out till summer, dovi on the repsol next year.
the stars are starting to align.
 
I don’t see Dovi with the will or the hunger to fight for a championship or even the occasional win.
 
warthog1 said:
Sure I rate JL higher, but I don't credit JL to have created Dovi's final corner race craft and tyre management that enabled those wins to a large degree.
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Sure, there are few riders in history who would have beaten MM with those last corner moves.

To be in a position to make those moves he needed what seems to have been JL’s bike; Gigi for one who might be expected to have a decent perspective on same appeared to be of this view when the question of JL leaving Ducati arose. What probably retained the last vestiges of JL’s input at Yamaha, the 2019 bike, gave every appearance of being superior to the 2020 factory bike as well.
 
Dovi was pressuring Marc prior to Jorge's arrival.
I accept Jorge may have eventually been superior but sorry, I am not attributing much of Dovi's performance to input from Lorenzo.
This year they have dropped the ball, but I am attributing a fair bit of that to a big change in the rear Michelin. It simply hasn't worked with Dukes so well. You could argue Dovi has lost interest too given his perceived lack of support from Ducati.
 
Would they not keep Bradl on if Marquez was out longer? Bradl was doing reasonably well towards the end of the season.
 
michaelm said:
Sure, there are few riders in history who would have beaten MM with those last corner moves.

To be in a position to make those moves he needed what seems to have been JL’s bike; Gigi for one who might be expected to have a decent perspective on same appeared to be of this view when the question of JL leaving Ducati arose. What probably retained the last vestiges of JL’s input at Yamaha, the 2019 bike, gave every appearance of being superior to the 2020 factory bike as well.
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Only at certain tracks toward the end of the season. I think the Yamaha riders need to take the good with the bad. The 2020 bike seemed to perform better in the first half while the 2019 bike performed better in the second half. I know we have spoken about this quite a bit but I think with double ups and so many tracks that would normally be on the schedule, off the schedule it’s hard to extrapolate how the 2020 bike would have gone if the season had been normal. Maybe it only performs worse at the tracks that it did during the second half of the season while performing better in the flyaways, Assen etc. maybe it doesn’t. But I think there is a lot being read into an already strange season.
 

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