2016 was a refreshing season with nine different winners in a MotoGP that was no longer accustomed to such diversity. 2017 will likely be an exciting year with all the official teams presenting themselves with a new pair of drivers, with the notable exception of Honda. How to find routine among the number of potential winners? Not necessarily. Valentino Rossi, for example, sees six capable of winning. At least !
Valentino Rossi will leave for a twenty-second season in Grand Prix and his eighteenth among an elite covered with Yamaha twelve times. This future exercise included, where he will fight again to obtain a tenth world title and enhance an already strong record of 114 successes. A record that makes you dizzy. And yet the motivation is still there.
A state of mind that is all the more remarkable as each new year promises to be ever harder. In 2016, nine different winners popped the champagne, for example. An exceptional vintage? Even! 2017 should also be a good year: “ experiencing a season like 2016 is not impossible » says Vale on speedweek. " Nine winners, however, seems difficult to imagine, but there will be at least six potential winners at each start in 2017 ».
« It won't be easy. Even if, for example, Lorenzo and Iannone have changed teams, they will be dangerous opponents ". Not to mention his young teammate prodigy Casa Particular in Viñales who quickly made his mark at Yamaha from Suzuki.
If the Doctor counts six drivers capable of winning, he is careful not to name them. The official Honda, Yamaha and Ducati duos alone make up the count. But one Iannone on Suzuki or even a bleeding Crutchlow would be delighted to shake up the established order a little further. The season will begin in Qatar on March 24.
