Álex Rins

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since then, Alex Rins has struggled significantly.

And then now he, then he injured his leg when he was at Honda, and then he's, like, leaving, you know, he's, doesn't have a seat at the end of the year.

So, like, I have an eternal grudge [laughs] against Suzuki for leaving the sport, 'cause I regard it as, like, ruining Alex Rins and possibly Joan Mir's career as well.

It was like, Suzuki.

Plus, it just sucks that we don't have a sixth manufacturer, and there's only five of them now.

Ouch.

Yeah, bad week over Yamaha, wasn't it, all round? As you say, Alex Marquez, who did well at Red Bull Ring last year, but really right from that sort of bizarre accident in practice, wasn't it? And then another one here, too, I think qualifying in the second one, set his weekend back.

Then I think he tangled with his own teammate in the race in the Alder Go, I think... uh there was some sort of instant i think that's why aldegay got the post-race sort of time penalty added on so yeah just just a well in alex mark his own words zero fun wasn't it they it seemed they just couldn't get uh the bike to work with the the stiffer construction rear tire and and tried everything and just weren't getting anywhere with it so as he yeah as you said not a great weekend for him and then for all the yamahas really yes guattarara again is is that guy who's being the standout but but where are they they're all at the back of the field aren't they top rack even as bad as it sounds they're still finished in front of jack miller whose final laps were sort of five six seven seconds off the pace so they were having you know jack spoke about these massive problems with electronics the traction it you just get the impression that yamaha is looking at i suppose they should be they're fully focused on the 27 bike now that's that's how it appears to me anyway and uh there is a much point is that let's be honest in trying to develop this bike when you've got a completely new bike coming in so even if they got this bike working what what would they really gain from it you know everything is changing for next year so yeah difficult times for all the Yamaha riders I suppose top rack should be on the 850 obviously with the Pirelli tires we don't have an official entry list yet even though the test is today so presumably there's one somewhere but Certainly when I was asking around yesterday, there wasn't an official entry list for this test, but Toprak obviously has the contract for next year.

He rode the bike at the last test, so we can assume he'll be on it today again.

That's the big carrot for him, isn't it, as you say, because he's going through these really dark times as far as the races at the moment.

But it does confound them.

I mean, I asked Alex Rins, like, how is it that two years in a row with two different bikes, you guys have vastly underperformed your season baseline here? And he was like, well, that's the same thing I ask Yamaha.

I would also really like to know, you know, they're lacking grip.

They were all like spinning up a storm.

Yeah.

Uh, Alex Rins is retiring.

Uh, he's gonna do a special project, but he's not gonna be riding.

Yeah.

Well, Miller, Binder, and Morbidelli are all off to World Superbike.

But we have let, yet to learn, um, Alex Rins's future.

He's teased us with it.

It's nothing to do with two wheels.

So we're gonna put you guys on the spot right now.

What on earth is Alex Rins's future career going to be?

Formula 1.

No, I don't know.

Absolutely gnarly.

One of the biggest things I saw this morning, Alex Rins just casually drops retirement.

He's like, you got something to share, but I can't share it yet.

All I can say is I'm not racing motorcycles anymore.

don't know if that's like, hey, I'm going four wheels.

But like, dude, what do you do? Where do you go? I think that's massive.

But honestly, every time I'm at the GP, you know, everybody knows that Alex Rins has got a ton of talent.

But when I watch him and look at him, he looks hurt.

Um, but it, they will all bring a bit more color to World Superbikes, and that's really badly needed

neededAnd I guess it's quite interesting that Alex Rins today confirmed he's not going to World Superbike, Manuel.

Sounds as though he's actually quitting two-wheel racing altogether.

Yes, he's quitting at the end of the season.

Well, it could have been worse.

Alex could have finished second.

That would have fucked you up.

We did in the first one.

This is what I'm thinking.

Liberty Media has hatched an act of genius to turn WSBK into even more compelling and brilliant racing because it's funneling all the unemployed MotoGP guys to that series.

Jack Miller, Brad Binder, Frankie Morbidelli, and Alex Rins.

How good is, no, seriously, think about it.

So, It's so apparent.

So Alex Rins is 20th in the

standing.

Should he be imprisoned

then by your logic? I mean, Alex Rins is at least not saying that Yamaha is awful and he's trying all the new stuff.

This is a crazy double

standard.

So Fabio Cartararo is a fraud who's phoning it in at more than twice the points of Alex Rins.