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CN IIIN THE PADDOCK
BY MICHAEL SCOTT
T
here is little comfort for
medium-good Grand Prix
riders when they reach a
certain age.
Medium-good is not meant to
be pejorative. Any rider able to
compete in the premier World
Championship is clearly ex
-
tremely talented. There are very
few exceptions to this, and cer-
tainly none in the current fevered
climate of ultra-close competi-
tion with ever-shrinking margins.
But with a conveyor belt of
newcomers pushing through, and
a brave new world of revised and
(supposedly) upgraded MotoGP
starting next year, there are inevi
-
tably some casualties.
The problem is the presence of
rampant genius, mainly repre
-
sented at the moment by Marc
Marquez and Pedro Acosta. With
them around, even the exception-
ally talented only get an occasion-
al chance at winning. Until they
WINNERS AND LOSERS
IN THE MOTOGP
JOB MARKET
Manuel Gonzalez is
poised to win this
year's Moto2 World
Championship, but
these days that might
not be enough to secure
a ride in MotoGP.
