Maverick Viñales

do a track day at a circuit to do a lap here behind last year, it was Jack and Casey.

And this year we had, um, Anaïs Bassanini, Maverick Vinales, Alex Rins, Senna and Joel and Jacob, the Aussies.

So to come and do that, I think it's something that's really, really unique.

And I love that it's, let's talk about it from a marketing point of view, a way to bring fans even closer to the sport.

Honestly, yeah, I will admire that.

He does feel like he wins races like Jorge Lorenzo, but his seasons look like Maverick Vinales.

Yeah, real up and down, unpredictable.

Yeah.

That was wild.

It's been a lot of just like on and off track unexpected craziness.

And so, you know, everything going on with Maverick Vinales and now Joan Mir, where it's just sort of like we've got these interesting open-ended storylines and, you know, who's going to World Superbike, who's saying, just the silly season this year alone has made it, like, a unique season with us.

I think only three riders didn't move teams going into next year, because Toprak, Zarko, And I think you can sort of argue Marrera because Marrera is at least staying in the Honda fold, even if he might move up to the factory team.

It was quite aggressive and it was quite, quite peaky and it, well, you know, um, it was quite difficult to manage.

The riders, uh, at the time, uh, Aleix Espargaro and Maverick Viñales said, you know, it was quite aggressive and difficult to manage.

Mm.

And, um, because Savadori spent so much time working on, uh, uh, on e- electronics because, you know, that was pretty much what all he was, uh, able to do, then Aprilia made a huge step.

The, the, the, the difference between the Pirellis and the m- and the, and the, the Superbike Pirellis and the MotoGP Michelins is, is like night and days.

It's unthinkable.

Uh, it's been interesting talking to Pol Espargaro who's having been, have to switching between the two as re- replacing Maverick Viñales and then going away and then testing the 850, the KTM 850 on-

Yeah

Go on.

Um, 16 second penalty for Maverick Viñales, James.

Oh yeah, talk to me about this.

Uh, he didn't even bother giving a flying fuck about the tire pressures.

Yeah.

Well, and then-

And then where did Maverick Viñales d- do we know where he kind of finished?

Dead last.

The f- this was very interesting.

Third first time winner in four races, Maverick Viñales of Spain won the race for Suzuki.

This was their first win since the 2007 French MotoGP at Le Mans, when the rider was Aussie mate Chris Vermuelen.

He used to race their beautiful light blue Rizla sponsored machines, and I saw them in action at Laguna Seca when they used to come there.

I'm all for that.

Maverick Vinales return.

Maybe.

Well, it... nobody would know.

For unreal.

Again, uh, you know, ahead of Vinales, ahead of Morbidelli, ahead of Rins, and all the Yamahas, you know, pretty impressive.

So-

Bro, really impressive

The radiation, mate.

[laughs] It's something.

I mean, Vinales, special mention, 14th in the race.

I mean, pretty good comeback from him.

But he shows again that, like you said, twice in a year, the clock is all right or the calendar is right.

he's the Spanish Maverick Vinales, you know, same thing, you know, and, and exactly the same way what you just said, all the teams think, yeah, if we, if we, if we, you know, when, when Vinales left Yamaha and went to Aprilia, they were like, oh, it's a Latin team.

We'll get in gel and a family with him.

And yeah, of course he, he won a couple of races for them, but generally he was nowhere.

So, fun stuff.

Uh, Tottenham Hotspur's Chief Revenue Officer Ryan Norris is named as MotoGP's Chief Commercial Officer via Visordown, and the Qu- Quartararo was the motorsport.com. Um, and then Maverick Viñales is making his MotoGP comeback at the Japanese Grand Prix, and he is still not 100%.

Will, I forget what team he races for, but the team that's coached by or that's managed by Guenther Steiner, if, uh, will they regret not dropping him midway through the season? Only time will tell.

But yeah, there's no recap, and the Japanese Grand Prix is this weekend.