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Added 2025-03-10 18:55:35 +0000 UTCAs Ai Ogura kept turning down chances to join the MotoGP grid with Honda (and had a few misadventures in his Moto2 career too), there were times when it seemed he might never actually make it to the premier class.
When he did, he immediately starred.
In our latest MotoGP video, Simon and Val dig into Ogura's route to MotoGP, the impression he's made and what could happen next, with insight from Ogura's Trackhouse team boss Davide Brivio.
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Great chat - am really all-in for him this year as the next big Asian thing, which, with respect to Takaaki, has been a while coming after so many false starts. Davide, IMHO, is coming back from F1 with a lot of perspective and ideas to improve the ladder to MotoGP from his time out with the Alpine F1 team and then its broader programme, which, if anything, is a well needed shakeup of the KTM/Red Bull axis of rider development which the entire MotoGP paddock has become extremely reliant on.
Alexander Law
2025-03-10 22:18:30 +0000 UTCNow that Davide Brivio is mentioning it, I realized that there is really no testing of young talents like in other sports. If the lower classes are - as Dorna wants them to be -pure feeder series and no longer separate standalone classes, wouldn’t it make big sense to follow suit as Formula E or even F1 and give the Moto2 riders one day or at least one session during the season where MotoGP teams can put them onto their bikes and see how they perform? And in turn Moto2 teams do this with Moto3 riders. As it is now, it is unfair to the teams but also to the riders.
Helmut Gaishauser
2025-03-10 19:24:31 +0000 UTC
