2022 MotoGP

[sav0r]

That is interesting...

[SoCal250]

Honda has confirmed Mir for next year as MM93's teammate on the factory team, filling the former seat of P. Espargaro.
Aprilia RNF has announced that its two riders will be Oliviera & Raul Fernandez.

Attached is the grid line-up so far. Only a few seats remaining to be named:1 at LCR Honda, 1 at GasGas, and both at Mooney VR46

[SoCal250]

Augusto Fernandez has signed a 1-yr deal with GasGas for next year, moving up from Moto2 to fill the other seat alongside P. Espargaro.

[sav0r]

Good race yesterday and probably remains the best championship battle of year as most of the other big racing seasons are closing in on a champion.

[SoCal250]

Bezzecchi has been confirmed for next year at Mooney VR46 Ducati. And of course, Luca is guaranteed for the other seat although it hasn't been officially announced, since his brother is the team owner.

The only seat remaining is Nakagami's current bike at LCR Honda. It's still up in the air whether he'll be retained or replaced by another rider.

[SoCal250]

Nakagami has been officially confirmed at LCR Honda for 1 more year. All seats are now filled, although the GasGas #2 ride for A. Fernandez has been leaked but not officially confirmed by the team.

[Seizer]

Marc Marquez will return to the scene of one of last seasons best races, Motorland Aragon. I'm not expecting him to be at the front this year but who knows? I'm hoping Fabio can get a top 5 finish but that seems unlikely with the current state of the '22 M1.
Here are my picks:
Viñales (it's gotta happen eventually, right?)
Bastianini
Marini

(Pecco shits the bed at the corkscrew before the back straight...)

[SoCal250]

It's a tough decision but I'll toss this into the ring...
1. Bastianini
2. Miller
3. Vinales

[SoCal250]

A lot of surprising news today.
Remy Gardner has announced he's moving to World SBK next season and will take Garrett Gerloff's seat at GRT Yamaha. Gerloff is moving over to BMW for 2023.
Beaubier is leaving GP racing to return to the US after two seasons in Moto2 with American Racing. In 2023 he'll be back in MotoAmerica SBK, but the team is TBA. (I'm sure it will be at Yamaha, but who will he be replacing?)

[SoCal250]

Nakagami has been officially confirmed at LCR Honda for 1 more year. All seats are now filled, although the GasGas #2 ride for A. Fernandez has been leaked but not officially confirmed by the team.

Augusto Fernandez has been offically confirmed for the 2nd seat with GasGas, so now the grid is final for next year.

[soonerbillz]

That was a rough start to that race too bad for Fabio that Marco had that cold Tire squealy and ended up taking out Fabio.
  It sure changed up the championship picture.
The last 3 lap race for the lead was fun.

[Hawaii-Mike]

Yes it was opposite last week's race - Bastiani got first and Bagnaia in second place.

[sav0r]

Down to the last lap too. Hard to believe. I feel like Bagnaia just let him through to collect the points for the championship.

On a side note, my son is a big Bastianini fan because he likes the purple bike with pink bits. So he was happy about that finish.

[SoCal250]

Fabio had a really bad (unlucky) weekend. After his crash, the scooter he was riding back on to get checked at the medical center crashed head-on into another scooter. Apparently everyone was OK but Fabio said he was very glad he was still wearing his helmet and that the marshal who was driving his scooter was going to be very sore.

[sav0r]

Crazy.

Fabio is still looking food for the championship but that Yamaha is starting to show its age. The Ducati's are damn strong. I haven't spent too much time looking at the upcoming schedule but I'd want to be on the Duc at this point. Then again, I said that like 4 months ago and Fabio is still leading.