No spoiler motogp11/11/2022 ![]() ![]() Reacting to the announcement, Gerloff said: “I’m excited for the opportunity ahead, I’m not someone who runs away from a challenge, so I’m ready to get to the track. He went on to add another two at the season finale in Estoril. But he truly made a name for himself as a rookie in the latter stages of 2020, recording an outstanding podium in Barcelona, the first for an American rider in WorldSBK since the aforementioned Hayden. Three rounds into his sophomore season in the World Championship, Gerloff sits sixth in the standings, with a podium in the Aragon Superpole Race and a further three top-5 finishes to his name. The Turkish phenomenon is just 20 points behind championship leader Jonathan Rea (Kawasaki Racing Team WorldSBK) and currently on a record streak of six consecutive podiums, capped off with a win in the last race at Misano. Razgatlioglu himself was reportedly also in the running to replace Morbidelli, according to the announcement from Yamaha, but opted to turn down the opportunity this time in favour of remaining focused on his WorldSBK title challenge. The 25-year-old Texan heads to the Netherlands off the back of two full days of WorldSBK testing in Navarra, where Gerloff set the second fastest time over both days, just 48 thousandths of a second shy of factory rider Toprak Razgatlioglu (Pata Yamaha with BRIXX WorldSBK). This will also mark the first MotoGP™ appearance for an American rider since the late, great Nicky Hayden at the 2016 Australian GP. And if I’m being honest, I wouldn’t blame them if they did.MotoGP™ team Petronas Yamaha SRT have officially announced Garrett Gerloff (GRT Yamaha WorldSBK Team) as a replacement rider for the injured Franco Morbidelli at this weekend’s Motul TT Assen, setting the stage for the American rider’s first race in MotoGP™.Īfter turning heads as a Friday stand-in for Valentino Rossi last year at the 2020 European Grand Prix – lapping under 1.6 seconds slower than the fastest time of FP2, on his first day on a GP bike and on Michelin tyres – Gerloff will get a second shot in the MotoGP™ paddock this weekend at Assen, which is also set to host Round 5 of the MOTUL FIM Superbike World Championship in a month’s time. If Marc Marquez doesn’t learn to stop crashing, Honda are going to take that MX bike off him. And then his MotoGP career could be over, and Honda have lost their star rider. But if he carries on, it’s only a matter of time before he finishes off the arm that he’s already nearly destroyed. But at what price? Perhaps he isn’t that bothered about it, because he probably enjoys riding his off-road bike as much as he does his MotoGP bike. He is keeping his body and mind sharp on his MX bike, and I understand that. No doctor in their right mind would suggest racing a bike, a week after you’ve been sparked out. Now I’ve not read the MotoGP rule book cover to cover, but I’m fairly sure there will be something in there that says you can’t race a GP bike within a week of having concussion. They say that he’s been assessed by doctors, and that ‘as a precautionary measure’ he will not race in Portugal this weekend. ![]() ![]() But after a couple of days rest, he’s still unwell… so it’s not ‘slight’ at all is it? It sounds like he’s had a right whopper. If you read the statement, they say he suffered slight concussion after a crash on Saturday. He crashed his MX bike didn’t he, whilst he was busy ‘training’? I know recently-operated-on-limbs can be weak, but what type of windows was he opening? Nah, pull the other one, Honda. The story we got told last year when he rebroke his arm was that he did it ‘opening a window’. But it’s also one of the best ways in the world to injure yourself. In fact it’s one of the best ways to maintain ‘bike-fitness’. And motocross is a good way to maintain that fitness. I completely understand that to ride an MX bike, you’ve got to be at the peak of your physical fitness. It’s not the first time the eight-time world champion has injured himself ‘training’, and I wonder how long it’s going to be before Honda take his motocross bike off him. It’s just come out that Marc Marquez had a crash on an off-road bike, banged his head and ruled himself out of the Algarve Grand Prix at Portimão this weekend. ![]()
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