I heard this weird thing about Vinales

Holypuck · May 18, 2018

This is not much more than a bar rumor, but I still consider it interesting.

According to this rumor, Vinales and his management started to talk with Davide Brivio and asked if there is a possibility for them to get back to Suzuki.

Vinales would be afraid of losing his best years (in terms of potential, age and therefore physical/mental shape) due to Yamaha's apparent inability to provide him a competitive bike and to work around his needs to be competitive.

Since he already has a signed Yamaha contract, Suzuki and/or him would obviously pay all penalties.

Now this could be ........ but I know for a fact (and at times it is obvious even on TV) that he is pissed off/frustrated at Yamaha right now.

Guess we'll see. What do you think?

birdman · May 18, 2018

Fascinating, thanks puck. I just witnessed Vinales in FP2 pull into the pit pointing down at the Yam and waving his finger as if to say no, no more. I didn’t get it, then read this post, now you have me wondering.

Vinales to Suzuki opens Yamaha to..............Lorenzo? Ducati to..............Iannone? Maybe with a clause if he takes out Dovi one more time he gets sent to Siberia?

p4p1 · May 18, 2018

That could really throw a spanner in the works.

michaelm · May 18, 2018

Losing Lorenzo and Zarco could perhaps be considered accidental or unlucky, but if he loses Vinales as well it would start to look somewhat careless on Lin Jarvis's part.

Holypuck · May 18, 2018

Thing is everything is a bit "shaken" right now, with Le Mans being a really good track for Yamaha AND for Vinales, and with Ianone being in good race shape with 2 fresh podiums. I wouldn't really know.

Marketing wise this would be insane for Suzuki. Like one of the fastest riders in the world left a (theoretically) much better bike to go back to them.

Also if this would happen Jarvis would probably have to escape to Mexico under a fake name to never be seen or heard of again.

synn · May 18, 2018

Did you hear this from a friend's brother in law who overheard Vinales' uncle in a cafe or is there an actual source?

Holypuck · May 18, 2018

synn said:
Did you hear this from a friend's brother in law who overheard Vinales' uncle in a cafe or is there an actual source?

I know a couple people that are lucky enough to have jobs in the paddock. One in particular is a good buddy of mine.

It is fair to specify that none of them is directly involved with any premier class rider, but since the paddock is a small town and since a good 60% of the people in the paddock are Italian, it is sometimes easy for them to hear and/or overhear things

McZee · May 18, 2018

Fair play, mate, quite often those are the best sources of info.
It wouldn't surprise me, Mav' has, for a long time, made his frustration with the M1 quite apparent.

JPSLotus · May 18, 2018

If this is all true and not just rumor, it makes it strange that he rushed to re-up his Yamaha deal if he wants out of it so badly already. Maybe this explains why Lorenzo hasn't been rushing to sign a new Ducati deal because he knows something is up at Yamaha.

Barbedwirebikerr · May 18, 2018

He should never have left. Said so way back in 2016.

Obviously had no idea the Yamaha was to turn this way, my point was more stay at Suzuki and build a legacy whilst Suzuki built a bike around him.

synn · May 18, 2018

Yeah, the hole in this story is, Maverick signed his Yamaha deal (And a 2 year one, not a 1 year wait and see contract) real early. At a time when Iannone was knee deep in .... at Suzuki.
Life would have been so much simpler if he had just signed for Suzuki after 2017.

I wouldn’t base anything on his expressions when the bike doesn’t work his way. He has always been that way, looking like a sourpuss when things are not 100% the way he wants them to be.

That said, he left Suzuki on very good terms and they said the door is always open for him.
So we have to wait and see.

Holypuck · May 18, 2018

Barbedwirebikerr said:
He should never have left. Said so way back in 2016.

Obviously had no idea the Yamaha was to turn this way, my point was more stay at Suzuki and build a legacy whilst Suzuki built a bike around him.

Dunno. I mean I kinda agree if I look at him now, but it has to be said that when he had his Yamaha like he wanted it to be (end of 2016/beginning of 2017) he was significantly faster than anyone else.

Holypuck · May 18, 2018

McZee said:
Fair play, mate, quite often those are the best sources of info.
It wouldn't surprise me, Mav' has, for a long time, made his frustration with the M1 quite apparent.

Yep.

Anyways as I am not involved with anything that happens in the paddock first person, keep in mind that I always state to have heard the things I report, not that they are true

What is sure true tho is that a lot of people really crave a Suzuki nowadays. Can't blame em, it's the best looking MotoGP by far

synn · May 18, 2018

Holypuck said:
Yep.

Anyways as I am not involved with anything that happens in the paddock first person, keep in mind that I always state to have heard the things I report, not that they are true

What is sure true tho is that a lot of people really crave a Suzuki nowadays. Can't blame em, it's the best looking MotoGP by far

It really is, the proportions are just about perfect.
I am not a fan of how road going Gixxers look these days, but the GSX-RR (Gixxerrrr?) is one beautiful machine.

MichaelBolton · May 18, 2018

So Maverick returns to Suzuki, Jorge to Yamaha & Iannone to Ducati. It would be funny

Holypuck · May 18, 2018

synn said:
It really is, the proportions are just about perfect.
I am not a fan of how road going Gixxers look these days, but the GSX-RR (Gixxerrrr?) is one beautiful machine.

Indeed. I mean just look at this thing. I'm almost physically attracted by it.

Holypuck · May 18, 2018

MichaelBolton said:
So Maverick returns to Suzuki, Jorge to Yamaha & Iannone to Ducati. It would be funny

2016 revival

cucoloco · May 18, 2018

Holypuck said:
Indeed. I mean just look at this thing. I'm almost physically attracted by it.

:giggle:

Theo · May 18, 2018

I bet Rossi would put a spanner in the works if it was rumoured that JLo was going back to the same team.

JPSLotus · May 18, 2018

synn said:
It really is, the proportions are just about perfect.
I am not a fan of how road going Gixxers look these days, but the GSX-RR (Gixxerrrr?) is one beautiful machine.

The 1000 looks good. Might buy one in the near future. Don't like that they look the 1000 stickers off though and molded 1000 into a plastic piece.

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