The Frenchman Fabio Quartararo (Yamaha YZR M 1) will have to be very aware of the performance of the official Moto GP riders of both Suzuki, the Spanish Joan Mir and Alex Rins, as well as those of Ducati, the Italian Francesco “Pecco” Bagnaia and Australian Jack Miller, as well as eight-time world champion, Spaniard Marc Márquez (Repsol Honda RC 213 V).
Although he continues to say that he is not at the necessary level and that perhaps he should have stopped much longer to recover, the truth is that Marc Márquez shows each grand prize he disputes that he takes a “little step forward“, as could be seen in Austria, where if not for the rain he was already fighting for victory with his rivals.
The Repsol Honda rider knows what it’s like to win at Silverstone, since he did it in 2014 and in 2019, the last time he raced on the British circuit -in 2020 it was canceled due to the pandemic-, he had to give up the victory for barely 13 thousandths of a second over the same finish line against fellow Spaniard Alex Rins.
Precisely Alex Rins should be another of the protagonists in Silverstone, a circuit that he hopes will serve as a stimulus to a season in which his irregularity and, especially the falls, have relegated him to thirteenth place in the provisional general classification.
Also waiting “like water in May” this circuit, his teammate and current world champion of the category Joan Mir, knowing that the British is a track that adapts very well to the characteristics of the Suzuki GSX RR and now that They have the starting device on both the front and the rear, the “sensations” are the best to take a step forward from the third place it occupies, 47 points behind Quartararo, the same that “Pecco” Bagnaia also has.
Precisely Bagnaia is another of the riders who are expected to step forward and achieve his first MotoGP victory as an official Ducati rider, something that for now is resisting him despite having stepped on the podium four times. The statistics at Silverstone are not very favorable, since only on one occasion has the Ducati Desmosedici won on that stage, and it was in 2017 at the hands of fellow Italian Andrea Dovizioso.
Yamaha is the manufacturer that has won the most times in the last decade in SilverstoneAlthough their last victory dates back to 2016 at the hands of the Spanish Maverick Viñales, a year before they achieved it with the Italian Valentino Rossi and the previous one was by Jorge Lorenzo in 2013.
Maverick Viñales is another of the “focal points” of the weekend after the “definitive” resolution of his contract with Yamaha after the incident that he starred in in the Styrian race and that precipitated all the events between both parties in a brilliant way. The rider from Roses (Gerona) had already resolved his future with Aprilia for 2022, but there is no doubt that this new “turn of the screw” in the break with Yamaha, could precipitate his arrival at the great prizes at the hands of the manufacturer of Noale , nervous and eager to see how a fast rider performs with his RS-GP prototype.
That termination of Maverick Viñales caused in the preceding days a real “commotion” among pilots, as the British Cal Crutchlow, Yamaha tester after leaving the competition in 2020, was required to replace the injured Italian pilot Franco Morbidelli and the loss of the Spanish has returned to the “present” by requesting his services in the official team with Fabio Quartararo.
Without eating or drinking it and after years of unsuccessfully searching for an official team, the Briton found himself in one of them just after announcing his withdrawal from the competition. He probably doesn’t believe it himself, well yes, but the way in which he has done it is extraordinarily incredible. And, of course, by leaving the Morbidelli seat vacant, the Yamaha satellite team has been forced to find a replacement and, for this, has thought about the riders it already has, which is why it has facilitated the passage of the British Jake Dixon from his Moto2 team to the MotoGP team.
Like any chain reaction, Dixon’s move to MotoGP left his place in Moto2 free, but here the natural “jump” from Moto3, they couldn’t afford it with either of his two riders, the British John McPhee and the South African Darryn Binder. , habitually immersed in the fight for the podium and victory, hence an “old acquaintance”, the Malaysian Adam Norrodin, was used.
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