Yeah I saw the recap of the French GP and they showed a clip off the Ducati garage and they didn't seem to pleased with AI.

https://motomatters.com/analysis/2016/05/16/silly_season_updates_pedrosa_to_honda_vi.html

Quote from: DarkMonster620 on May 16, 2016, 06:28:49 AM
so says Motorsport,

http://www.motorsport.com/motogp/news/ducati-chooses-dovizioso-to-partner-lorenzo-in-2017-737347/

More than Ducati, I bet "La Lorenza" chose Dovi 

Today's the 30th anniversary, so I thought for sure my boy was gonna make his announcement.

Officially official http://www.motogp.com/en/news/2016/05/17/andrea-dovizioso-confirmed-with-ducati-for-2017-and-2018/201065

Like I said previously, Dovi is the perfect teammate for any Alien. He's competitive enough to be consistently in the top 6, but not good enough to be a threat. He's also the human speed bump!

Is that a winglet?

And to think that most of us were expecting Dovi to be tossed to the side for Ianonne at the start of this season.

Quote from: thought on May 17, 2016, 12:10:56 PM
And to think that most of us were expecting Dovi to be tossed to the side for Ianonne at the start of this season.

Instead, he was tossed to the side by Ianonne.   




Try the veal. I'll be here all week.

http://www.motogp.com/en/news/2016/05/19/andrea-iannone-joins-suzuki-for-2017-and-2018/201136

http://www.motogp.com/en/news/2016/05/19/yamaha-confirm-maverick-vinales-for-2017-and-2018-season/201135

Its all happenin' now.

So that pretty much covers the top guys.

Who's left?

Crutchlow...the Espargaro's...anyone else?

I don't see crashlow going to any new manufacturers as he does not look to be able to make bikes work, they need to be developed before he can ride them or he just falls off trying to over ride the bike.

Espargaro could go to KTM as he has been doing well with Suzuki , he is just not an alien. his Brother as well Tech 3 wants to keep him but I do not see him ever moving forward, his time is almost up.

I would be interested in seeing what happens to Barbara as he has been overachieving on a old bike.

Miller? does he improve?
Tito   back to moto 2?
Hernandez   WSB?
Baz             WSB?

time to clear out some dead wood and bring up some new talent to see what they can do. There must be some more aliens out there just not from the US

Quote from: ducpainter on May 19, 2016, 05:04:08 AM
So that pretty much covers the top guys.

Who's left?

Crutchlow...the Espargaro's...anyone else?

AFAIK, these are the guys still on the loose:


Gresini Aprilia
Alvaro Bautista
Stefan Bradl

Aspar Team MotoGP
Yonny Hernandez
Eugene Laverty

Avintia Racing
Loris Baz
Hector Barbera

Estrella Galicia 0,0 Marc VDS
Tito Rabat
Jack Miller

LCR Honda
Cal Crutchlow

Monster Tech 3 Yamaha
Pol Espargaro


OCTO Pramac Yakhnich
Scott Redding
Danilo Petrucci

Repsol Honda Team
Marc Marquez

ECSTAR Suzuki
Aleix Espargaro

Then there's Rins wanting into the mix, but he's holding out for a factory seat.

Zarco has some sort of unspecified deal with Suzuki, perhaps that'll turn into Aleix's seat, or a satellite Suzuki.