wow! Great to see its going down to the last race, even if Sykes gave it a Stoner Moaner in interview 'daddy the man is taking my cup! And bro wouldnt stand up for me! MAKE THEM GIVE IT BACK!!!' Go Silvan! Proper gent, Lincoln bread if not born....honorary Englishman
Could argue it either way if he hadn't been gifted the extra points from melandri which was more than baz gifted tom, and if baz hadn't punted tom. However think guinters deserved it with a double win, and I felt tom was stronger through the year but that's racing. Nice to see tom be the first to congratulate guinters, be no love lost in kwak next year I reckon between Jonny rea and tom and my money will be on Jonny
I thought that Baz did adhere to team orders during the Magny Cours race, to which they both received equal advantages. Both Milandri and Baz disobeyed the second requests, so even stevens in my book. Totally agree with congratulating Guinters, well ridden and deserved. Regarding Jonny Rea, I think that if Kawasaki can keep up the competitive momentum we'll see Rea as champion next season.
Sykes has without doubt changed the bike and made it competitive and was robbed the Biaggi year. Theres a fair mount of noise about the kawasakis and many of the rule changes next year are designed to combat both theirs and the aprilias 'interpretation' of the rules. He is a robot when he gets going, which you want, and a bit like Jorge once in his stride is farly unstoppable, on that bike Guliano will be a contender next year
Be good to see 2 proper Ducati teams next year with the Althea squad coming back in. They seemed to be saying Guintoli was going to Honda for next year??
I really hope so. One of the commentators said Sylvain`s move to Honda is still only rumour, Aprilia might yet still keep him. What odds on him retiring? (I hope not)
I hope Guinters stays at Aprilia (and why would they not want to keep him!) - the Honda is a hiding to nothing and i doubt he'd be able to achieve what Johnny Rea has on it..
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I think it was more of a case of whether Aprilia stay in WSB as to where Guinters rides. All pointers suggest not in Factory form and that is the problem for Guinters I think. It's also suggested that Aprilia will be a big loser in the new Evo regs which might be why they are going to Motogp a year earlier than planned.
Great season, great end to the championship. Well done to Guinters, gutted for Sykes as he has been helping Baz all season. However, i just dont think the kawasaki had the pace of the Aprilia at Qatar. Check out the spat on twitter between Sykes and Spaz: WSBK News - WSBK Qatar: Sykes, Baz step up feud on social media
