Things are falling into place in the MotoGP paddock in preparation for a 2019 season which is getting brighter and clearer. The big names have finalized their fate and Yamaha helped build its satellite team which takes away one of its loyalists from Ducati. The pilots of this structure financed by Petronas are to be announced and if Morbidely is expected, his teammate still remains a mystery. While that of the retirement of Pedrosa is less and less opaque. Despite everything, there remain quite a few riders on the floor who are only thinking about one bike: the one currently driven by Xavier Simeon...
Xavier Simeon was installed this season in MotoGP within the Reale Seguros Avintia team in exchange for a check for 700.000 euros and the hope that the investment would be justified by convincing results for the following year. However, we are not taking the path. On the contrary. The Belgian can't do it and the last Grand Prix at Assen was painful, marked by a problematic race after qualifying 2.9 seconds from pole position. Marquez.
As a result, he has every chance of losing his Ducati at the end of this campaign. On the team side, boss Raul Romero wants to keep Tito Rabat at his own expense and therefore requests a paying pilot at his side. Among the candidates we find Tom Luthi, which shares common ground with Simeon for not having scored a single point since the start of this season... The Swiss also has opportunities to consider in a return to Moto2, either with Marc VDS or with SIC Petronas. It will be recalled that the former 125 World Champion is also a double world vice-champion in a category which will write a new page in its history next year with the Triumph engine.
For the Avintia position, we also find Alvaro Bautista who made his representations, while hoping to be part of the Yamaha Petronas adventure. Mika Kallio is also on the spot. The current KTM test rider has in fact not given up on rediscovering the joys of a full-season rider. Finally, we will not forget the Czech with the check Karel Abraham, used to paying s place and also to the Ducati. We will recall, in this respect, that in 2019, the Ducati clan will be made up of six motorcycles divided into GP19 and GP18.
