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Post by philthewindsurfer on Sept 3, 2019 14:26:19 GMT
Lowes to partner Rea at Kawasaki. Haslam to move across to Pucetti. Not convinced that Lowes is any better than Leon TBH, but I only started watching WSB again this year. So is Toprak confirmed at Yam then? I can't believe that Kawa would take Lowes over Toprak, even if they do want to move Haslam out... I think Toprak got the hump about going out to Suzuka for the 8-hour and being told at the last minute he wasn't racing due to his lack of experience. He put the hours and effort in for the testing. It would be better for his career to have a chance of being the top rider in a team (tough job against vd Mark) and at Kawasaki Rea would always be top dog and call the shots. |
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Post by mekon on Sept 13, 2019 13:03:10 GMT
This from Motomatters
In the Aruba.it Ducati team, Bautista was earning less than teammate Chaz Davies, and that may have rankled the Spaniard.
W T F. Davies has been POOR this season apart from a couple of races. AB has shown the true potential of the bike (i.e. beating Rea by 20s a race) and Davies gets offered more money?!?
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Post by neilf on Sept 13, 2019 13:20:10 GMT
This from Motomatters In the Aruba.it Ducati team, Bautista was earning less than teammate Chaz Davies, and that may have rankled the Spaniard. W T F. Davies has been POOR this season apart from a couple of races. AB has shown the true potential of the bike (i.e. beating Rea by 20s a race) and Davies gets offered more money?!? I sounds like the ' was earning less than teammate Chaz Davies' statement is based on this year's deals. Although a GP world champion, Bautista was an unknown quantity in Superbikes, so I'm not really surprised. If Bautista wanted more fo rthis year, then his management should've pushed for a better deal. If Ducati offered Bautista less than Davies for 2020, then I can understand why the former walked; but would he be privy to this information? |
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Post by mekon on Sept 23, 2019 8:55:41 GMT
Well, that's the Bautista deal done. HRC Honda in WSB it is. Hopefully Honda will actually make a decent fireblade (not that us mortals could get the best out of anything anyway)that will actually be competitive from the go. The Ducati is obviously fast but only it seems only Bautista can get the best out of it, Hopefully the Honda will have both riders up front.
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Post by Droog on Sept 23, 2019 10:56:11 GMT
What we need from Honda is a V4 spiritual successor to the RC45. Or a clone of the MotoGP bike. Anything less will be a disaster.
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Post by neilf on Sept 23, 2019 11:42:34 GMT
Too pricey by all accounts, but if Aprilia and Ducati and do it...!
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Post by Droog on Oct 11, 2019 14:03:05 GMT
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Post by mekon on Oct 11, 2019 17:30:18 GMT
Hopefully he'll do more than smash the thing up.
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Post by Droog on Oct 18, 2019 19:34:54 GMT
Camier to Barni Ducati in 2020.
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Post by mekon on Oct 18, 2019 19:58:33 GMT
Is that good or the equivalent of buying a Zxr750rrsp that someone swapped the factory forks out of?
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Post by Droog on Oct 20, 2019 16:37:17 GMT
I think Camier will win on that bike. Maybe he is just past his peak but on his day he will take a win. The Ducati will suit him well. As long as they run ohlins.
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Post by Eddie The Bastard on Oct 20, 2019 18:05:33 GMT
Camier now part of the 'old guard'? That makes me feel a bit uneasy.
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Post by norbs on Oct 23, 2019 12:16:20 GMT
www.crash.net/wsbk/news/931855/1/gerloff-caricasulo-form-grt-yamaha-lineup-2020
"Garrett Gerloff and Federico Caricasulo will step up to the World Superbike championship for 2020 to form the all-new GRT Yamaha rider line-up.
With Marco Melandri retiring and Sandro Cortese splitting from the team, MotoAmerica Superbike star Gerloff moves to the world stage having compete for Yamaha’s factory team in the USA for the past two years."
I'd have liked them to keep Cortese and add Caricasulo to the team. I've never heard of Gerloff but my guess is he'll be as wank a waste of time as Gagne was when he came to wsbk.
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Post by mekon on Oct 23, 2019 13:06:20 GMT
Considering the yank championship is now utterly piss poor and Toni Elias nearly won it this year, I don't rate some guy who could only get one race win this year.
Remember when some people though AMA was better than WSB? Lol at that. It's not even better than Ducati tri-options cup.
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Post by neilf on Oct 23, 2019 14:46:17 GMT
Considering the yank championship is now utterly piss poor and Toni Elias nearly won it this year, I don't rate some guy who could only get one race win this year. Remember when some people though AMA was better than WSB? Lol at that. It's not even better than Ducati tri-options cup. I tried watching some Moto America races this year but I couldn't get on with the commentators; their style was very similar to those that cover American Football. As for the quality of the riders, but when you have 7s covering the grid either there is a massive gulf between the teams in terms of budgets, or the riders are really shite. Some of the tracks looked pretty exciting though, but a lot of them needed resurfacing. |
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