04-03-2016, 11:28 AM
Ptero... For years people have told me (not on this forum so much) that MotoGP is a snooze fest with the same 4 people and 2 mfgs winning all the time and that WSBK was better...more exciting and more competitive,and all I had to do was watch it to see. So I went back thru results from the last few years, studied and documented for those people that the points chase is and has been actually closer in MotoGP than in WSBK for years. Not convinced they pound on me that all I had to do was to watch it and see the competitiveness. So I have been watching .... 3 of the 4 races so far this season. What I see is the same thing I see when I study the results lists, the same 3 or 4 people stand on the podium each race, and at the end of the year it's pretty clear who is going to win the Championship and who is going to finish second and third. Let me predict that this year the first three finishers in WSBK at the end of the year will be Sykes, Davies and Rhea, from 2 mfgs. Now it just may be that the chances of Lorenzo, Rossi and Marquez finishing 1 st 2 nd and 3 rd this season, are pretty good, they are afterall multi time World Champions, but today only 1 of those would have been on the podium. Passes were often and exciting and until the last corner no one knew who was going to be on the podium. While watching todays MotoGP race, I was excited, jumping up and down, yelling at the TV even if it was limited to 20 laps and a bike change. The last 1/2 with Vinales reeling in and passing the Andeas was great, and 4 mfgs were competitive and fighting for a podium spot. On this day, I would say MotoGP was definitly better.