2014 SEASON PREVIEW
MOTOGP
PREVIEW
P38
BY MICHAEL SCOTT
PHOTOGRAPHY BY GOLD & GOOSE
M
otoGP 2014-style was
meant to be bigger and bet-
ter than ever before, with an
unprecedented 19 races scheduled,
spanning Europe and the Americas,
with stop-offs in Japan, South-East
Asia and Australia. One of those
races – the revived Brazilian GP – is
in serious doubt, however. But the
rest look ready to rumble.
The run from March to November
will decide the 56th MotoGP World
Championship. It will determine oth-
er things besides. Most importantly
it will decide the technical profile of
the future, in the first year of "Open"
class sub-factory production racers.
Looking forward at the end of
last season, there were only three
clear candidates for the title, and all
Spanish.
• Double champion and now de-
fender Jorge Lorenzo, drawing yet
deeper on his reserves of precision
and courage to take the complete
maximum out of his Yamaha.
• Dashing new boy Marc Mar-
quez, who slid and scintillated to a
maiden championship win last year,
youngest ever, and with a chance
on his second Repsol Honda year
to become the second-youngest as
well.
BRING IT
MOTOGP HAS SOME NEW RULES,
BETTER PRODUCTION RACERS AND THE
SAME OLD MARC MARQUEZ…