They need a fast rider, maybe Bezzecchi can.

Another incredible stats I just read about Mir title is that he won with just average starting position of 8-9! Has there ever been an even lower average of other champs in the premier class or maybe this is a historic lowest!?

It's like Ducati simply is not interested to win and Yamaha guys beat themselves out of the title and gave it away to him. He is probably the luckiest champ, more so than Hayden. Surely not a great way to win the title but a title is a title and it counts the same in the record book.

Oh ya MV might be kicking himself too if he really thinks about it! 😅 Mir needs to end the season with a win in the last race to show that he is not just be so lucky, at least he will tie Hayden tally and win with more points margin.

Honda and MM probably regretted that they tried to return racing too soon which worsen his injury. If he actually waited maybe another 2-3 races before returning, he might even still had a shot at the title.

This post has been edited by 6UE5T: Nov 16 2020, 06:05 PM

Hmm cannot really be sure. Dr. Mir obviously a highly regarded doctor in the motorcycle racing environment with proven track records of taking care of high profile sportsmen. Of course his team could've made a poor job for once but until really proven otherwise then it's inconclusive. I hope MM recovers soon and can fight at his best again from race 1 next year. As much as I am bored of seeing him winning all the time, his talent and career should not end in such an abrupt manner.

Btw is it a coincidence that his name is the same as the new motogp champ? 🤣

If MM returns with full fitness next year, I suspect he could be more freshly motivated and hungry to get back beating the crap out of everyone again! 🤣

Not sure how far has Honda changed their bikes, but my guess is not that much until MM will struggle a lot on it. I think MM should not have too much difficulties either way.

Suzuki now has strong race pace but they need to still up their pace bit and increase a lot in qualifying.

For Duc, JM seem getting better but I don't they they will be consistently strong enough for title challenge.

Yamaha should still be strong. Their problem aside from the tricky/inconsistent setup of the bike is they have too many similar level riders that can take away wins and points from each other! Morbi was earlier thought to be lower level than FQ and MV but this year proves that he could be right up there too and his confidence should be sky high now.

Duc looking strong with Jack on top fp3 and Dovi in 4th plus Zarco in 6th which bodes well to try win the constructor title for Duc. Rins for Suzuki looks good in 3rd but Mir only 15th so need to go Q1. Morbi also only managed 11th. VR is embarrassingly 1.5sec slower and down in 20th! Maybe time for him to retire after next year already, he is obviously getting slower everytime now.

Yeah, so looks like it's between Miller vs Rins for the Duc vs Suzuki constructor title battle.

Wow moto2 is pretty intense now.

Bastianini world champ!

Rins and FQ dropping like stone, even behind the old man VR!

Miller got his revenge over Morbi and Duc wins manufacturers title. Dominant win by Miguel to cap off a great year for KTM.

Just realized that Yamaha overtakes Suzuki and VR ends up so low in 15th even behind the rookie Alex M. Who would've thought in such open season, VR did his worse!

Morbi on the 19 M1 might've won the title if not for that 1 retirement due to the valve issue. Yamaha seems got loss of direction in their development, maybe the 3 riders gave different inputs on how to solve the same issues, while the 19 bike was able to focus more coz only 1 rider input.

I'd give 4/5 because it was so open right until the penultimate race, lots of surprises, and new winners, just missing half point due to MM not around and another half coz VR practically went anonymous throughout.

He only got 1 podium then the rest of the time he was just hovering in the mid-back or crash. That's not consistent unless you mean consistently slower. He only looked a bit promising in races 2-6 or just 5 races and even so not particularly strong either.

IMHO the biggest losers are Yamaha, VR, and Dovi. MM to me just unlucky due injury but not due to his weak performance.
Yamaha is biggest loser because they have the fastest bike overall yet cannot win a single title.
VR because he was just lackluster until even a common rookie on a slower bike (AM) beats him and could not even capitalize a single win while there were so many others able to win for their first time. He was slow yet he crashed many times too.
Dovi because it's his biggest opportunity to finally win it yet he also could not capitalize while on his way out to unknown future.

Btw there's rumour that MM might need another operation for bone transplant if his bone now still not yet fully healed! If he does need this 3rd one, he might miss again the first few races next year, not good news. 😕

This post has been edited by 6UE5T: Nov 26 2020, 01:31 PM

We should know within the next few days. The news said they're now checking the result to determine if need to do 3rd surgery or not. Hopefully good news otherwise it might hamper him again next season.