scootergmc
old and slow
It's Thursday right? Overreactions are for Mondays.
....AAAAAAND the fact everyone was saying the Honda was the best bike on the grid and he wanted to prove himself on a different machine.
I see this as a PR stunt on Honda/Repsol's part. Strategically making the team quite literally a family will, in the end, backfire.
This is the perfect time for the other manufacturers to recruit the riders Honda overlooked in the Puig/Repsol PR parade. Get that Yamaha on a V4 platform and get Rossi retired. It's a new era.
Honda screwed up by falling for Puig's pitch. It will bite them in the arse mark my words. Because MM won't leave Puig and his little brother .....it will be a family affair from here on out. Honda has it on lock....good bad or indifferent. Never mix family with business.
Alternative interpretation: Puig and HRC are not idiots. They know (as does everyone else in the paddock) that right now in MotoGP Marc Marquez can probably win the title with the KTM or even the Aprilia. Ergo, every team (except Yamaha) is offering Marc everything they possibly can to retain his services. After all, if you have Marc, you win the title. Puig and HRC know full well that AM is a backmarker, a la Tito Rabat. They're not thrilled to put a backmarker on the second Repsol bike, but if that means that Marc stays put....it's a no-brainer for them. They'd be stupid not put AM on that bike. They could care less that Alex is Marc's brother, other than it increases the likelihood that Marc remains in the team.
Ask yourself, is it out of the realm of possibility that Gigi would offer Marc AND his brother a factory Ducati? In fact, he's probably doing just that as we speak. "Marc, come to Ducati in 2021 when your contract is up, and bring Alex too! We'll have the Dream Team!" Of course Gigi is offering that. Why would anyone at Ducati give a shit if it was Alex or Petrux bringing up the rear on that bike?
Sadly, in MotoGP today Marc Marquez is the only thing that matters. You could roll out a 93 500cc ROC Yamaha and Marc could probably win the title on it. Everyone knows this. Everyone will offer everything they possibly can to sign Marc. If you're not offering Alex as teammate you're an idiot, and absolutely horrible at business.
I concur with the gentleman with the milk mustache as it does bring the room together. Outlandish comparisons, i.e. 93 500cc ROC Yamaha, are also invigorating. My current occupation is stimulated by imaging competitive knuckle dragging between Alex Márquez and Cal "I had podium pace" Crutchlow. Wizard, that.Alternative interpretation: Puig and HRC are not idiots.
Is Two Brothers still around to sponsor them?
Is Two Brothers still around to sponsor them?
Won’t pass noise regulations, even for MotoGP events..... :laughing
It wasn't a D&D. Two Bros. was tame.
I had Two Bros on a 929RR and it was pretty obnoxious. But I also had D&D cans on a TLR, and that was next level loud.
My "outsider's" perspective says the thing that has stood out in watching AM73 over the past has been his steady growth. I doubt he finishes in the top ten next year. Just outside of it maybe 12 or 13? But he will show progress at managing the extra speed and challenge and when he does he'll get a contract extension. He understands the value of patience better than anyone I've seen on track (albeit a relatively small sample size on my part as I've only been paying attention for the past 10 or so years).
In year two or three he'll consistently place in top 5 and ensure MM93 has several more championships.
His approach to racing tells me it's more about just being out there on the track pushing himself rather than competing with anyone else.