Burgess will retire when Rossi retires. Rossi probably needs another 3 STRONG seasons (or to be honest, simply "normal" Rossi seasons) to get 123 or 124. If he starts taking fewer victories he may need 4 years to do it. I wonder if Burgess will stay til the end. I surely hope so, but he's mentioned retiring on the bbc stream several times this year alone, so it's obviously on his mind. Anyway, it would be great to see the both of them on the podium for 123/4. I think they would have to force Jeremy to stand there and take the champagne bath for once. Also, Burgess is set for life with Yamaha. He will be given a high level oversight position where I'm sure he'll have carte blanche with respect to what he wants to do, how he wants to do it and when and where he wants to do it. And they'll probably pay him a grip of cash to do it which is cool in my book. Rossi also has lifetime status at Yamaha and they will both always be involved with Yamaha's efforts in some capacity. Even if Rossi's racing cars in the snow, he'll do press for Yamaha forever.