“No incident in Barcelona, Banyaya he would arrive at Misano as the favourite. Against two opponents who are not 100% ready like he and I are at the moment. Bezsecchistarting from pole, Jorge Martin will try to get away.” This is the forecast of Mauro Sancini, taking into account Grand Prix of San Marino, an opportunity for the Spaniard to get closer to the leader of the MotoGP World Championship. Sancini, a former supersport and superbike racer, has been Sky Sport’s trusted technical commentator at the World Championships for 10 years, paired with his friend Guido Meda.
Beware of Marquez, Aprilia and KTM.
2023 is shaping up to be a particularly exciting year on two wheels, especially in MotoGP. “THAT Banyai’s 45 point advantage is not a guarantee“, warns Sancini. Ducati Champion “Last year he took 91 points from Quartararo and took the title from him.”. And in the fight for the podium at Misano “Also keep an eye on Aprilia and KTM”. Regarding the Honda crisis and rumors about Marquez is ready to leave one year before the expiration of the contract, “I think that Mark, more than anything else, is trying to put pressure on the Japanese company executives to make them produce a motorcycle that can compete with the European ones. On Monday he will test the 2024 prototype here in Misano and then he will have clearer thoughts.”
Sancini and Meda, Misano’s golden couple
“After the World Cup it is an exciting and at the same time exhausting journey that… Blender projects with very few pauses – Sancini continues, “But the passion is such that we start with tests at the beginning of the year and find ourselves in November, almost without realizing it.” then the Sky team in Misano is led, as always, by Guido Meda, the “storyteller” of passion on two wheels. Deputy director of Sky Sport prefers to be more defined “storyteller than journalist”passionate motorcyclist “off the track” who, however, would be a pilot “very broken“. The two will act as intermediaries between images of what happens on the track and the public at home during MotoGP races. The story of a world championship that “wants to escape routine” by remaining interesting and always offering something original. So here it is other television content, a challenge between Meda himself and Sancini – the first on a Piaggio moped, the other on a bicycle – on an 80-kilometer route that ends with the arrival at the Misano circuit, dozens of riders who arrived as children and became champions, described the world successes of Valentino Rossi in premier class: “Over time, I went from being the same age as them to being what a father or uncle might be today.” “For members of my generation, the scooter was the equivalent of a cell phone for today’s teenagers, an instrument of freedom,” he emphasizes, preparing to talk about today’s racing, “. It comes with its fair share of risks, but it’s less subtle.” “