Ex-MotoGP journeyman Alvaro Bautista has for some reason hit out at MotoGP claiming that no one likes new riders and that the current MotoGP machinery is too even.
Like many MotoGP rejects Alvaro Bautista, who throughout his career has wanted to be in a boyband*, decided he’d move to World Superbike in 2019 after being booted out of MotoGP for being ‘very average’. Luckily for the Spaniard Alvaro landed a plum ride on the vastly superior Ducati in a field of also-ran riders many of whom had failing eyesight and/or trouble with their joints – especially in humidity.
Sadly though for Bautista he’d underestimated the skill of Jonathan Rea and despite a mechanical advantage spent the second half of the year falling off and sat shaking the corner with bloodshot eyes.
After that Bautista spent two years riding the absolutely terrible Honda Fireblade for an absolutely terribly large amount of cash.
But this year the boyband is back with Ducati and he’s skilfully winning races whilst even more skilfully trying to make it look like he hasn’t got a huge power advantage over his rivals.
So with his 15 minutes now in the spotlight Alvaro has chosen to put the boot into MotoGP to try to justify his move to World Superbike – despite us all knowing he’d be back in a flash given the opportunity.
The Spanish rider has suggested that the retirement of legend Valentino Rossi has caused viewers to lose interest in MotoGP – because up until that point everyone was glued to their TVs wondering if the Italian would finish 19th again.
Furthermore Bautista claims that the influx of new, young, exciting riders has turned off many seasoned fans, himself included, due to the ‘old guard’ being replaced. The Ducati WSBK rider stated a field of more experienced riders is far more appealing…which is great news for him as the average rider age in WSBK is currently 74.
“Bautista should stick to platting his hair” bemoaned one expert. “It’s of course in his interest for the older MotoGP riders to stay in MotoGP as if they get replaced chances are they’ll move to World Superbike like he did. And the last thing Bautista wants is for a half-decent experienced rider to expose how easy it is to win on the current Ducati. That’s a secret he wants to keep to himself for as long as possible.”
Most bizarrely though Bautista stated that the bikes in MotoGP are so similar in terms of pace that it takes away from the skill of the rider and makes the racing duller. This left most of us scratching our heads at such mixed-up logic and wondering if Alvaro had been out on the sauce again with Hector Barbera.
However if Bautista isn’t a fan of comparable machinery then it’s fortunate that currently World Superbikes is vastly uneven with only three factory teams ever winning races…and each one of those three factory teams seem to employ a token nugget rider. This, mathematically speaking, ensures that the same three are on the podium for almost every race. Which, according to Alvaro, is what we all want to see.
* If created the boyband could tour with James Toseland’s band** to create possibly the dullest entertainment since ‘An evening with Kimi Raikkonen’.
** The band where James plays classical piano and embarrassingly tries to convince us he’s a rock star.