Pedrosa to Yamaha

Umm.. Will be surprised on many levels if actually happens.


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Would be interesting thats for sure.

You can report anything that runs through your head if it has a question mark at the end. If it happens, you can say see, we are connected, read our print. If it doesnt happen, you point to the question mark and say, we didnt report it as fact. The new journalism and how to get the scoop. With that being said, i would love it. Honda would swoop in and nab Rins, denying Yamaha both of their targets, leaving them dangling in the wind, and having to fill both seats in 2 years. I simply cannot see Crutchlow getting that seat with his own admissions of how difficult it is for him to ride the Honda. Having Repsol stickers on the side doesnt make it any easier to ride. wouldnt it be something if Dani left Honda after 11 years and won a title on the Yamaha. Honda heads would explode, Rossi's head would explode. It would look like the scene from Kingsman.

That must be Rossi's choice.

I hope this is going to happen, I think the Yamaha and Dani are a perfect match. The guy deserves a bit of luck after years of getting injured when he's been doing well.

He wants someone he can beat regularly or morph into a underling.

Be interesting to see who yam select, it will give us an idea how much say Rossi has in it. Either way I hope they fail.

I doubt ped will go. More likely Maverick or ianone.

p4p1 said:

Pedrosa to join Rossi at Yamaha, Viñales to remain at Suzuki? | MCN

So now this is going to be happen well possibly anyway. I think Pedro would do really well on that bike. I expect him to become public enemy number 1 very quickly.

Lol at Cal on a repsol

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I imagine Danny would do OK on it.
Not sure if it would be a massive improvement for him, just because he's small doesn't mean he needs a smooth bike.
He can drive that Honda aggressively when he has a mind too, but I think his current problems are down to past injuries and mental weariness.

Richy56 said:

He wants someone he can beat regularly or morph into a underling.

Be interesting to see who yam select, it will give us an idea how much say Rossi has in it. Either way I hope they fail.

I doubt ped will go. More likely Maverick or ianone.

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You never know with Yamaha, they have proven they will make a rider decision based on popularity instead of performance. If Ianonne is going to inherit Rossi's fan base, maybe they choose him on those grounds. Of course he would have to do SOME winning, that bandwagon fanbase would disappear like a pair of panties on prom night if he thought he could just ride around on Rossi's name

Richy56 said:

He wants someone he can beat regularly or morph into a underling.

Be interesting to see who yam select, it will give us an idea how much say Rossi has in it. Either way I hope they fail.

I doubt ped will go. More likely Maverick or ianone.

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Thats why Colin was his perfect sigekick. Knew his place, wasnt worried about winning and was happy as a pig in .... being Rossi's test mule and footstand. He understood his situation early on and parlayed it into a nice career and racing afterlife.

I'd laugh if somehow he went there and then beat the piss out of Rossi.

Everyone assumes he would play second fiddle, but he might not. Unlike Edwards, he actually can win races.

It's on Kropotkin's site now too.. No smoke without fire

Like so many I questioned Dani being kept on the Repsol for as long as he was, and perhaps I'm late to the party, but he really made a fan out of me last season (aside from how he handled the Sepang fallout).

I was in Brno and had Paddock access, on the Friday Dani had the crash where the fork leaked & he pulled the screws in his foot from a previous injury. Yep, I reckon it would hurt just about as much as you're imagining it might. He wasn't expected to ride past Saturday but did, scoring an admirable 4th.

Where I became a believer was after that, we were at the back of the Repsol garage after the debriefs waiting to grab some pics with Marquez, Dani came out 1st. Leathers hanging at his waist, walking sooooo gingerly, face of pure pain. He stood for photos and chatted with every single fan there waiting, making sure anybody wanting his attention got it, then, so weakened from the pain used his hand & knees to literally crawl up the steps into the back of the race truck.

In that one moment I saw the toughest S.o.B. I'd ever met in a race paddock. He was in bits, but gave of himself everything he had to the team, the fans and the sport.

He has since personalised a canvas of him for my 70 year old mother (herself a career long Dani fan) thanking her for her support. The man is a class act.

Dani on an M1? I'd pay the entrance fee to watch that, he'd be fast as hell straight out of the box at the Valencia 2016 post race test. Dunno if it will happen, but I'd love to see it!

You know what bothers me more about this story, is the possibility that Cuntslow is going to find himself on another factory bike.

That this guy could even be in the running to be on a factory RCV is insane.

JPSLotus said:

You know what bothers me more about this story, is the possibility that Cuntslow is going to find himself on another factory bike.

That this guy could even be in the running to be on a factory RCV is insane.

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Surely Crutchlow's days of factory riding are done and that is a bit smoke and mirrors from HRC.

Deefer Dogg said:

Surely Crutchlow's days of factory riding are done and that is a bit smoke and mirrors from HRC.

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I don't think it is smoke and mirrors.

Honda and Yamaha are both trying to leave the other with .... options for the second seat. If negotiations with Vinales are over, then that torpedoes Yamaha's number one choice for a 2017 lineup of Rossi/Vinales. Once you take MV out of the picture, the pickings become slim except for Pedrosa. So either you overpay for Pedrosa and hope he has a desire to ride a more stable platform in the M1 rather than the RCV, or you are now left with the choice of promoting Espargaro from Tech 3, or trying to find someone else on one of the satellite bikes. Possibly making a play for Petrucci or Espargaro would satisfy Rossi's need for a Colin Edwards type on the second M1. Going with Pedrosa could wind up seeing Rossi crying for all of '17 and '18 if Pedrosa matches well with the M1.

On the flipside of the picture, Honda would rather maintain the MM/DP lineup. But losing DP to Yamaha would then mean their choices become ..... By virtue of having MM in that 1st seat, they are not going to upset the apple cart by putting any young, promising talent on the 2nd RCV. That rules out seeing Jack Miller making any jump. All it leaves is Cuntslow on the LCR to make a jump to Repsol Honda. He meets the requirement of not being fast enough to be a threat to MM but possibly being quick enough to score valuable constructor's points assuming he doesn't crash, which of course we know he will do.

Yamaha has a few more options than Honda does at this point, so Honda is going to be far more keen to win the Dani Pedrosa sweepstakes.

Maybe Yamaha can do us a favor and go put Colin Edwards back on the M1 to complete the Nursing Home All-Stars.

I laugh when I read that Rossi will be "whipped" by his new teammate. As if anybody could be more of a problem for him than Jorge Lorenzo? Poor thing, he must be all trembling there in his unwalled half of the Yamaha garage, waiting for Pedrosa or Vinales (or Pol Espargaro!) to come and kick his aging ...... :cold:
This forum is really entertaining. :happy:

J4rn0 said:

I laugh when I read that Rossi will be "whipped" by his new teammate. As if anybody could be more of a problem for him than Jorge Lorenzo? Poor thing, he must be all trembling there in his unwalled half of the Yamaha garage, waiting for Pedrosa or Vinales (or Pol Espargaro!) to come and kick his aging ...... :cold:
This forum is really entertaining. :happy:

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Kind of a dumb post since you know Pedrosa prefers a perfect setup for his bikes, and when he gets it, he tends to be untouchable come race day. I distinctly recall when everything clicked near the end of the season last year, Rossi couldn't even get close to Dani at a few of those races. The M1 is a far more stable platform than the RCV, and probably would be well suited for Pedrosa.

You're also making a tremendous assumption that with Rossi another year older, he will still be doing fine. What happens if his performance declines enough that he simply cannot fight for wins or podiums anymore? It happens to athletes where they fall of a cliff out of nowhere. Even though he is treated as a deity, Rossi is not immune to time.

While not as talented as Rossi, I'm pretty sure Loris Capirossi went into the 2007 with the working assumption that he would be able to repeat his 2006 performance, if not better...at least till the lights went out at Qatar and a distinct new reality took shape. Funny thing with athletes, no matter how good, the end sometimes comes unexpectedly, and quite swiftly.

JPSLotus said:

You know what bothers me more about this story, is the possibility that Cuntslow is going to find himself on another factory bike.

That this guy could even be in the running to be on a factory RCV is insane.

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I'd personally take Laverty over Crutchlow given the choice.