1/31/2024 0 Comments Line rider conundrum![]() ![]() The only one who didn't really make sense was Lecuona. None of those departures was at all surprising from a competitive or business standpoint. KTM learned a lesson there. Remy Gardner was slow, injured, and despite perhaps a better attitude than RF inside the box, still caused PR drama and came off as an entitled whiner in public. Raul Fernandez was a malcontent who didn't have the results to justify the pain in the neck of dealing with him. Our beloved Petrucci was unfortunately very slow and very old. ![]() Yes, maybe they've handled their business in too cold and corporate of a way, but let's face it. I don't think KTM give one rat's what people think about sacking riders after one year. No movement is possible in the factory team, so the most likely place a vacancy could open up is in Pramac. The only way a vacancy can be created at Mooney VR46 is for Marco Bezzecchi to get a Ducati GP24 next year, and the only teams racing the GP24 are the factory Ducati Lenovo team and Pramac. This would require someone to leave, of course. ![]() The VR46 Riders Academy management have put a lot of their efforts into helping Morbidelli improve his performance, and they be about to take the most logical and straightforward solution: by putting him into the Mooney VR46 Ducati squad. So where are we in the process of finding riders for seats in 2023? Here's what we know based on rumor, gossip, speculation, and insider information.įranco Morbidelli's seat in the Monster Energy Yamaha team is be the only factory seat up for grabs, and it looks like Morbidelli may have no interest in staying there, after a difficult couple of years at the Japanese factory. Not quite as fast as at Honda, perhaps, but still declining. But it appears that the appeal of a factory seat at Yamaha is declining. We had all assumed that Morbidelli would want to hang on to a factory seat, to have direct input into the bike he will be racing. Morbidelli's answer both kicked off a round of speculation, as well as highlighting the scale of the problem facing Yamaha. "Do I want to secure another year with Yamaha?" the Monster Energy Yamaha rider responded to a question from Jack Appleyard about beating his teammate, answering the follow up question with an enigmatic "Ask Lin," referring to Lin Jarvis, Managing Director of Yamaha Motor Racing. But all that changed on Sunday night at Mugello, after Franco Morbidelli dropped a quiet bombshell to Dorna's cameras. With only one factory seat up for grabs in 2024, MotoGP's Silly Season – the frantic period in which riders, teams, and managers haggle over contracts and rides – has been relatively quiet so far. ![]()
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