Ok with this championship nearly halfway through, I thought I would start a thread about next years. Or more precisely, who's going to be where next year. Marquez has already signed on to Honda till 2016...bet that was a good deal..but what about the rest ? Talk of Crutchlow going to Suzuki etc.. So what are your predictions and who would you like to see where. For me..I think Lorenzo will go to Suzuki, with possibly Pedrosa, Rossi will stay at Yamaha as I reckon he is the number 1 rider in that team currently, he will be or should be joined by Aleixs Espargero as that is someone long overdue a full factory ride. Crutchlow will stay at Ducati alongside Dovi. Redding will get an offer to join Marquez in the seat vacated by Pedrosa. The rest of the teams....well there are a lot of good Moto2 riders coming through and there are going to be a few vacant satellite/open class rides at the end of this year.
I can see bautista going to suzuki and the scott moving up to take the "factory class" bike. I think lorenzo will stay put and so will pedrosa as there is no other honda rider setting the world on fire. Dovi can demand what ever pay check he wants from ducati so it will be a massive shock to see him leave. Cal on the other hand will jump at the chance for a factory suzuki seat but will suzuki even want him
I would love to see Redding join MM as i think he's more than good enough to run with him but don't think it will happen. VR JL will stay where they are, DP will go to Suzuki and CC will stay at Ducati.......
Tito Rabat will come into play somewhere, after MM's success a lot of the factory/satellite teams will be looking in that direction.
Crutchlow will jump ship to suzuki which I think could be the surprise package next year, marquez stay where he is, hopefully pedrosa gets dropped and rossi will stay at yamaha
I can't see cal staying how poor the Ducati still is. Ok they are higher up the podium BUT only due to softer tyres on quali and less general restrictions. What I would like to see is Dani out of Honda. if he is to show fans (i'm not one) that he can do well he needs to get win's on other bikes and not "just" miss out on the championship every time he gets a new team mate Other than that I would like to see good racing and no BT sports having the majority. bring it back to Eurosport. I have Moto GP access I pay for and will be doing so again as I will not be using BT And I for one would like to see Rossi on Honda but as u say rich that is not going to happen
Thought Cal had a 2 year deal ? Although Ducati might be a tad angry about his comments as to how shit the bike is. Think pedrosa will get binned with Lorenzo taking his seat.
he may have it in his contract to jump ship of Ducati are unable to get any better. which seems the case even with different rules, tyres, regs and throwing lots of cash
I reckon Tech 3 are kicking themselves for ditching Cal for Pol Espargaro. He's not half the rider of Crutchlow, he only got the Moto2 crown through default really and in MotoGP is out of his league. He's obviously the number one rider in the team with Bradley getting the deal Cal got last year with second hand kit, but Bradley is still outriding him.
I still don't think Lorenzo will stay at Yamaha, last year he was the #1 rider and got the bling and upgrades. Now I think it's Rossi, they even admitted that it Valentino's side of the garage that got the new seamless box to work first. The only way for Pedrosa to keep his seat next year is if starts taking a few wins away from Marquez, which he could do when he's on form.
