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#1 ·
Will Rossi be the champion in 2015?
Will Pedrosa ever win a championship?
Will Hayden win another MotoGP?
What about Crutchlow?

I have no answers, only questions.
 
#2 ·
Vale possibly, as long as the Yamaha is at least as good as the Honda,s and a big dollop of luck.
I don,t see Danni being champion unless the Honda is far superior and Marc has some non finishes.
Unfortunately I don,t see Nicky having the tools to win again, a shame as the guy,s a trier.
I think with Cal on a decent Honda he could have a few podiums and with a little luck his first win.
Great ain,t it, one season just finished and we,re whetting our lips for the next, personally I can,t wait.
 
#3 ·
I would love to see Valentino aiming for another Championship. He still has the passion for the win. I enjoy watching him race.

What a great character Cal Crutchlow is! I hope to see him given a fair shot with a good team and a good bike.

I don't see The Kentucky Kid being given another fair shot. And this depresses me. He is one fine racer and a good character. It was fun to watch him in his first few years in GP.

Bring on MotoGP 2015!
 
#4 ·
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I don't know the guy other than watching him since he came into MotoGP, but I think Nicky's biggest problem is that he is too much much of a team player, and not enough of a primadonna.

Does anything think that Rossi, Lorenzo, or Marquee Marc would have accepted coming off a championship year and being told, sorry, we designed your 2007 bike around your teammate - who tried to crash you out of winning last year - because he is the future of this team?

My Christmas wishes for next season are to see Yamaha and Ducati continue to close the gap with Honda, and see Hayden dicing it up for somewhere around 4-8, and maybe slipping a podium or two in there, if the stars align.
 
#6 ·
I dont know, I dont see anyone beating Mark Marquez for quite sometime. I hate to say it but I think Rossi is past it, Pedrosa is his own worst enemy and reallistically the only real competition for Marquez and the title, imo, is Jorge Lorenzo. If he can stay healthy then he has a shot, other then that I dont see anyone else even close. I 100% hope Im wrong though.
 
#7 ·
Marc does look great on the track! But I enjoy it more when the field is competitive, when the championship is not so certain. I do like watching Marc race, but I am ready for it to be hard for him.

And I just can not accept that Valentino is past his prime! Denial, withdrawals, whatever...
 
#11 ·
The only time Marquez seems beatable is when he screws up, which isn't very often.
I enjoyed the rivalry and camaraderie that seems to be present with Marquez and Rossi. I think it's made Rossi step up his game. The beginning of the season the announcers had pretty much written Rossi off as being washed up.
 
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#13 ·
I'm guessing that barring catastrophic injury or an unexpected innovation by another manufacturer, the next guy who will consistently beat Marquez is somebody we haven't heard of yet who is under 15 years of age.

The Honda works too well on too many tracks, and Marquez is too good and if all continues to go right for him, think about what he will be like when he reaches his athletic peak and has thoroughly mastered his craft at around 26 years of age. I mean, he's dominant now, so good luck everybody else.
 
#31 ·
I'm guessing that barring catastrophic injury or an unexpected innovation by another manufacturer, the next guy who will consistently beat Marquez is somebody we haven't heard of yet who is under 15 years of age.
... as Marky was with Rossi was before him, and as Rossi was with Doohan before him.
Rinse and repeat.

I think I see a pattern emerging here.
 
#14 ·
I think Miller moved up to soon. The antics he could get away with in Moto3 will get him no where in MotoGP. I think the big boys will hand it to him on and off the track.
Crutchlow, Bradl, Hayden etc, will all continue to fight for mid pack results since that is all their machinery will get them.

I do look for Ducati to have a better season, and hopefully for Rossi to take the fight to Marquez early in the season.
 
#15 ·
Rossi will get podiums, and maybe win a few races, but I don't think he'll see another championship. I wish that he would though.

Pedrosa will never win a championship. He's always going to be a day late and a dollar short. Honda really screwed up when they let PUig talk them into the long term commitment. Note that Pedrosa's team mates have won the championship four times now. So it's not the equipment that holds him back.

Nicky will never see the podium again. If he does, it will be a rain soaked race where his skill at keeping the shiny side up will allow him to skate around the crashers. I love Nicky, and I expected great things from him once he got away from the Ducati ... but nothing materialized.

Rossi is really unique in that he has been competitive this year at what would be considered an old age. Hayden is up there too, and very few riders manage to continue to rack up podiums after the age of even 32.

Regarding Crutchlow, he will never be a factor in any of it. He had to go be a factory rider ... and so off to Ducati he went. He would have had more podiums and maybe even a victory or two, if he'd stayed with the Yamaha satellite.

Fun to watch. Not as much fun as it once was though. Every year Expletivedeleta manages to further warp it. Sigh...
 
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#26 ·
Let's hope so. I really would like to see good racing in the "premiere" class. Otherwise, maybe top billing should be given to Moto3.
 
#27 ·
Probably not going to watch much of it this year. It seems to be going like F1 and relying on electronics to do everything. I'm waiting for UAV bikes to start racing themselves without riders.

It looks like SBK is going to be more interesting as they move to a level playing field with the new regulations.
 
#29 ·
I didn't really read anything about old Whingy, but I thought I saw he was just going to be a somewhat more regular test rider.
 
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#33 ·
I wonder how regulated the test days are, is it possible for someone to just pull out a "hand grenade" bike built to do 3 laps and put in a scorcher of a time?
Supposedly a lot of this went on in F1 in the turbo era.

Anyone got any idea if this still goes on, or has ever gone on in MotoGP?


*not that Rossi would need a rocket ship to set a good time.
 
#34 ·
Speaking completely out of my ass, I really don't think so. Different teams have different schedules and different areas on which they want to work at different times. It may not have been that Rossi was so fast, but rather for the first day of the test, the other top teams were concentrating on things other than outright speed.

I could be wrong. I'd love to see at least four bikes battling for wins every race.
 
#37 ·
I think Rossi was just fast in testing, photos show him with his shoulder on the deck:eek: He's really adapting his style, i'd say he's hungry. They can try out all the parts they want in testing but it still has to pass stringent scrutineering rules. It's going to be an interesting year indeed. I think Rossi will be content to clean up Lorenzo and Pedrosa but no one will get near Marky Mark. I just hope Jack Miller doesn't get too far ahead of himself and take everyone out in the first corner:D
Bring it on.
 
#38 ·
I think Rossi was just fast in testing, photos show him with his shoulder on the deck:eek: He's really adapting his style, i'd say he's hungry.

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Bring it on.
Every now and then, in every sport, someone comes along and redefines the parameters of just what you have to do to be competitive.
Rossi is just doing what is needed to be competitive in the current era.

Respect!
 
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