Quote Originally Posted by The Black Knight View Post
From the way Pecco came on strong during the second half of the season and was fast just about everywhere. I'd have to say, I'll have to tip Ducati for being the bike to beat next season. Not sure if Marquez will ever factor again, now that his double vision has returned due to another training accident. He is going to require surgery and a 5 month recovery time. Will be pushing it to be ready for 2022 season.

I think Fabio is worried about Ducati. I know team Suzuki are, they however at least can somewhat manage on the straights with the Ducati, having their hole shot device. Yamaha, will need some serous extra ponies for the new year.

Rins is fast, Rins just needs to figure out what he's doing wrong. I think the guy would win more races if he could just stay on the bike. Sure, Mir is faster on typically any given weekend but then Rins somehow finds some extra tenths and is faster during the race. He just crashes way too much. Then gain, that's why Mir was 3rd in the championship and I couldn't tell you where Rins landed.

I also think Jorge Martin will be a threat next season. Between him, Pecco and Miller. They took 7 wins and 10 poles, and Enea Bastianni seems to find speed out of nowhere. I think we will see some Ducati dominance next season. I think KTM will get stronger, they still won two races this year. Honda will be there and so will Yamaha. Suzuki will be at the back of these, with Aprilia sucking hind tit. What will make Ducati hard to beat is they will field 8 bikes. That's a lot of spots on the grid to fight for, and if they are all good riders. You can expect to see some serious Ducati presence in the top 10.

Roll on 2022!!

Happy Thanksgiving and God Bless!!
Damn, I didn't know that MM is going to require surgery for the double vision injury, yikes... Yeah I honestly don't see this dude coming back to 100% for a long time but well this is where true champions get tested and it'd be a damn shame if his career is put in doubt due to this, he's still far too young and has a lot to give. Don't really see Pol carrying the torch for HRC given he's too much of a hot head just like his brother and loses focus rather quickly, also hope he's doing alright after that nasty highside at T13 during practice, that looked bad. Ducati will have so many riders this upcoming season, their engineers will have a field day going through all that data and converting it into solutions and future performance, that's something that Yamaha lacks dearly and well FB won't be around forever given that his contract is up in 22' and I'm sure teams are already lining up to offer some serious $$$ for his skills and services, doubt Yamaha has the $$$ and the solutions to convince him to stay and judging his character, I bet your ass he's more worried/concerned about solutions than a fat contract at the moment, he wants to win and he's thirsty for that.