The end of the season is approaching and the title will be played out between Marc Marquez, Andrea Dovizioso and Maverick Vinales, but Dani Pedrosa and Valentino Rossi maintain their chances. We will have to count our supporters, those who will know how to position themselves to favor the allocation of points, as well as to take on the opponents.
Marquez is 16 points ahead of Dovizioso, 28 over Vinales, 54 over Pedrosa and 56 over Rossi. With four more races to go, any of the five men can win and it will be necessary to skillfully manage the series of three consecutive races which will take place at Motegi, Phillip Island and Sepang.
At Yamaha, as long as Rossi maintains his personal chances of being titled, he has no reason to help Vinales, and vice versa. At Ducati the situation is clearer and we can assume that Jorge Lorenzo and Danilo Petrucci will help Andrea Dovizioso, or at least not take important points from him.
At Honda, the situation is not very clear, with Dani Pedrosa who can also be titled, and will therefore first play his card during the overseas Grands Prix, even if it means giving a helping hand to Marc Marquez during the last Grand Prix. Prices in Valencia. There remains the case of Cal Crutchlow, whose situation at LCR is quite particular.
Honda signed Jack Miller while he was still in Moto3, moving him directly to MotoGP without going through the Moto2 box. This turned out, according to the Honda competition department, to be an error. But the budget for a third driver was blocked until the end of 2017. Next year, Cal Crutchlow will be the third official driver, still in charge of testing new products and developing the machine.
At the end of the season, will Crutchlow help Marquez? “ I haven't been asked, and I don't expect anyone to ask me, estimated the Briton.
I don't know a single driver in this World Championship who wants to be given a gift. »
“If someone loses the title of World Champion by 1 or 2 points because I finished ahead of him, he won't say 'You should have let me pass'. In motorcycle racing, that’s just not how it works. »
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Source: motorsport total
