FIM Superbike World Championship

Yep.

But next year World Superbikes, and I, I'm not a...

You, you obviously follow the sport much closer.

Yep.

But the bit that I found really interesting with that is that World Superbikes are much closer to the bikes that w- we ride on the road, so the tires are much closer to the road tires.

So actually for Michelin, it's probably an even better test bed and even more likely trickle-down technology goes into the road.

Absolutely.

Yeah.

Yeah

But we, we officially talked today about, uh, World Superbike with Jack Miller, Brad Binder, Franco Morbidelli, uh, even Fermin Aldeguer was asked a bit about Nicola, uh, Bulega coming in.

Um, Manu, in, in Valencia it's gonna be crazy busy with these riders saying goodbye.

Uh, we, we used to have, like, one or two.

Changing the-

Yeah

... tire it was a t- a time to, okay, let's race and start not from scratch, but both championship with win with these, uh, changes, World Superbike and, uh, MotoGP, I think.

We will see...

Miller has parted ways with Yamaha.

Hello, World Superbike.

I

mean, that's Ford's

I think he'll re-team with Oliveira at BMW because I think Petrucci is out of there.

So Miller going to Yamaha, possibly in place of Xavi Vieje? Yeah.

maybe I think Locatelli is re-signed by the main sort of works as to give it it's not quite correct title but squad so that would be the place and I did sort of throw this one at Vieje in the Ryder debriefs that were tagged onto the end of the World Superbike special from Donington it didn't really answer the question so Yeah, I think there's a bit going on behind the scenes.

But Rins sounds like he'll end up on the Ducati with the Go 11 team.

I don't know if it's seeing Honda give Joan Mir and Luca Marini the 850cc instead of Diogo Moreira at that moment in time.

Now, Yamaha has, since all of this has happened and since Quartaro's public claim that he is not going to participate in the development anymore and is just going to ride the bike as it is and finish out the season as it is, Yamaha spoke to a French outlet, L'Equipe, uh, told Quartararo that he should be more like Jack Miller, another out-of-contract rider, albeit a rider who will almost certainly continue with the manufacturer in some capacity, that capacity being a world superbike seat, and told Quartararo that it's totally normal practice not to have a one-away rider testing the prototype and that the prototype will go to top rack grass Gatliolu and newly confirmed 2027 rookie Isan Guevara, which is the Pramac lineup.

Obviously, they can't have Jorge Martin test.

He's under contract at Aprilia.

You're not waking up in the same frame of mind if you know that your current situation is rubbish and it's not going to last much longer anyway.

Binder and Bastianini are in a very similar bracket.

Because obviously Bastianini is heading to Trek House Aprilia and Binder is heading to the BMW World Superbike team.

But...