MotoGP - Martin to Aprilia

that's a top signing for aprilia, really rate him, aprilia world champions 2025 ? 

now Ducati have signed Marc Marquez 

Amazing how good they sound without a commentary 

Could be worse as there is 3 ish weeks until the first race. 2 weeks further on and there would be no chance of getting any kind of recovery done. The bigger worry seems to be that they haven’t established exactly the cause. 

Aprilia seem to be suggesting it was Michelin supplying a 9 month old tyre which Michelin say was not the cause. The other riders said the medium tyre Martin was using, was not suited to the temps but he had no soft ones left. But it could all be smoke and mirrors to hide something else. Martin had already crashed a few laps before so maybe existing damage or the same cause for both. The tyre was 31 laps old so you would think Martin would have long since pitted, had he thought the tyre defective.