Anyone still watching MotoGP?
Posted: October 22nd, 2020, 6:02 pm
With BSB and WSBK now over, the only thing left of interest on the weekend of telly appearsto be MotoGP (assuming you're not one to watch people kicking an inflated pig's bladder or like to watch the "one make series" that F1 has largely become).
And rather bizarrely with 4 rounds to go and 100 poiints up for grabs we have 2 classes in which a British rider has a chance (albeit an outside one in Moto3).
The GP is shaping up for an intersting finale, with 4 riders all appearing to try very hard not to win the championship. Mir seems to have the runn of form, but I suspect it will go to FQ20 at the wire even given his result at the first Aragon round.
In M2 Sam Lowes seems to like Aragon, and for some reason the Italian frontrunners seem to be trying too hard, something Sam has fortunately stopped doing.
In M3 it will take some serious good luck for John McPhee to win, and bad luck for Arenas - Ogura seems to be making his own bad luck, although he does have Norman as his crew chief and he's got a history of taking a winning formula and wrecking it by trying something radical (see McPhee's track record in the British Talent Team with the same crew). Still now John has signed again for Petronas and has a fast team mate he gets on with for next year, then he'll be settled for the final 3 rounds and next year I expect to see some darker turquoise bikes at the front.
In fact the only thing I'm ot looking forwards to from petronas is seeing how they blend VR46 yellow into their colour scheme, I suspect Alex the paint man has earned his substantial fee this year.
So, anyone still watching with thoughts on the championship?
Paul
And rather bizarrely with 4 rounds to go and 100 poiints up for grabs we have 2 classes in which a British rider has a chance (albeit an outside one in Moto3).
The GP is shaping up for an intersting finale, with 4 riders all appearing to try very hard not to win the championship. Mir seems to have the runn of form, but I suspect it will go to FQ20 at the wire even given his result at the first Aragon round.
In M2 Sam Lowes seems to like Aragon, and for some reason the Italian frontrunners seem to be trying too hard, something Sam has fortunately stopped doing.
In M3 it will take some serious good luck for John McPhee to win, and bad luck for Arenas - Ogura seems to be making his own bad luck, although he does have Norman as his crew chief and he's got a history of taking a winning formula and wrecking it by trying something radical (see McPhee's track record in the British Talent Team with the same crew). Still now John has signed again for Petronas and has a fast team mate he gets on with for next year, then he'll be settled for the final 3 rounds and next year I expect to see some darker turquoise bikes at the front.
In fact the only thing I'm ot looking forwards to from petronas is seeing how they blend VR46 yellow into their colour scheme, I suspect Alex the paint man has earned his substantial fee this year.
So, anyone still watching with thoughts on the championship?
Paul