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BY MICHAEL SCOTT
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redictions. Don't you hate
making them? They only
come back and bite you
in the ankle. Motorcycle racing
is, after all, a sport. And the joy
of sport is that what you think
is going to happen sometimes
doesn't.
On the other hand, anticipation builds and some guesswork
All conversations regarding the 2013
MotoGP World Championship have
to start with the defending champion
Jorge Lorenzo.
is irresistible, while we fidget and
wait for the start of a MotoGP
season that has all the ingredients of a potential classic.
There's a resurgent Valentino
Rossi, making an unholy trinity of varied skill, inspiration and
determination with incumbent
class leaders Dani Pedrosa and
defender Jorge Lorenzo. There's
impetuous youth: Marc Marquez,
already hailed in some quarters
as racing's next great superstar.
There are some fast guys on satellite bikes, from the headlong
street fighter Cal Crutchlow (the
fastest at the final test in Jerez)
to the clinical Stefan Bradl. And
there's a new chapter in the
Ducati saga, as Audi attends to
rescuing the battered reputation
of the beleaguered marque.
So we decided this year to
cover all the bases.
That way, at least some of it is
bound to be right. And the wrong