MotoGrandPrix Offseason/Testing Thread 2020

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scootergmc said:
Well, since nothing is set in stone, I think Pol would be quite the development/#2 rider for HRC. He's really the only guy who's been fast enough enabling the KTM to get any TV coverage, notwithstanding the gorgeous livery of the Tech 3 team. And seeing how the KTM has to be ridden at its limits in order to make it fast, and with no warning throw you away, I can see him working out on the RCV. I don't think he would win anything, but I can see podiums sniffs in his future.

As for Alex, it never made sense at HRC. He's more Zarco's brother than Marc's.
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If all that's true, then why sign Alex in the first place???

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I think Pol has a better shot at making the Honda work for him than most riders. Funny that applies to both bros in my mind.
 
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Are teams allowed to test currently? I wonder if HRC hasn’t seen Alex progress on the bike as they had hoped.
 
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Are teams allowed to test currently? I wonder if HRC hasn’t seen Alex progress on the bike as they had hoped.
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I'm pretty sure Aprilia just had a test. I follow Claudio corti on ig and he posted a bunch of stuff from a test with Bradley Smith
 
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Ducati, Suzuki, KTM and Aprilia are taking part in a private test (non-official) at Misano today. Note double mask set up for Pirro's tech in the garage.

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The silly season finally got interesting. Pol Espargaro must really be going to Repsol Honda or maybe Ducati. KTM announced that Oliveira and Binder will be the Factory team in 2021 (links to MotoGP.com) and they also announced that Petrucci will pair with Iker Lecuona on the Tech3 KTM team next season.

So Alex Marquez to LCR? Does that mean Cal retires next year or Taka gets the boot?

Dovi is still holding out for more money at Ducati according to this post at GPone.com so Miller's 2021 teammate is still up in the air.

Finally, Aprilia will likely have an open seat. Bradley Smith is filling in for AI29 for at least the first two races of 2020 but no commitment beyond that at the moment.
 
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Shenton met his new rider after the final 1996 race at Eastern Creek. “We were packing up our garage and a scruffy urchin with a few mates in tow was hanging around the back of the garage. Then one of them says to me: ‘g’day Stuart, I’m your new rider, I hope you’re f**king ready for me!’ And that was Anthony Gobert.

“At our first test with him at Eastern Creek we were doing his first debrief, with all the Japanese engineers sitting there, pens hovering, waiting to take notes and get his first impression of the bike. And he says, ‘Well, I need two things: I need a cage in the back of the garage with a dancing girl in it and we’ve got to get some beers in the fridge’. Then he gets up and walks out. There were six Japanese engineers sitting around the table and they didn’t know what to do, what to say or what had just happened. With his talent, he should’ve been world champion, but it was never going to happen.”
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https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/...thony-gobert-wanted-a-dancing-girl-in-the-pit
 
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