How Did a Bunch of Backmarkers SAVE MotoGP?

[@SuperbikeJohn]

If you are wondering whether you have seen a version of this video before, you have. Dorna flagged the original version for copyright infringement (I've since sacked the editor!!), so I've created a new video. Interestingly, another channel copied the original script! I suppose imitation is a great form of flattery...

[@Avago46]

Thanks so much for creating these videos. such a shame dorna go so extreme with the copyright claims

[@SuperbikeJohn]

@@Avago46 Maybe Liberty Media won't be so harsh!

[@mattjacomos2795]

I started watching 500GP back in the 80s and admit to losing interest in the sport during the 2010s because of the reduced number of bikes. This video was extremely interesting to me. I currently subscribe to MotoGP streaming and it's the only time in my life I have paid for sporting coverage. That is how entertaining I find the current series.

[@ajmic2]

We must be twins!

[@SuperbikeJohn]

My two favourite memories from the CRT era were Danillio absolutely ringing the neck of that IODA and Aleix leading at the Valencian GO. What were yours?

[@claxxz1]

AB RACING with Karel Abraham, absolutley GOATED

[@andybowen1981]

What a great video essay. Loved MotoGP since the end of the 500s and this has explained so much of how MotoGP has transitioned to today.

[@SuperbikeJohn]

Thank you!

[@parkebridgeman7223]

As a newish MotoGP fan I’m very interested in learning about the history of the sport so videos like these are awesome! Keep them coming!

[@Hustler9g]

Congratulations on being part of the best racing in the world 🎉 you are gonna have a great time getting to know all the history!

[@HighFlyingOwlOfMinerva]

huh. Never knew those backmarkers had such an impact on the fantastic racing we have today. That was a masterstroke from Dorna and the FIM I bet - something F1 could learn a thing or 7 about if they weren't so money hungry! Great video, I'm glad I got your channel recommended to me!

[@ampz37]

i recalled aleix slaying gp riders on the crt and open. brilliance riding

[@Bren.nto6971]

Interesting explanation, pre 2016 moto gp was so boring because Japan team domination. After unified ECU,and tyre supplier abomations change, European team dominated, but equally struggling

[@wesselkodrums5501]

Love your content. Really cool and informative videos. Keep it up!

[@SuperbikeJohn]

Thank you!

[@MisterAki43]

Nice one mate. Thanks for the upload!

[@DigitalTarmac425]

Aleix Espargaro did lead a couple of races on a CRT bike and scored some decent points. Ducati did get a bit stitched up with CRT rules as they weren't allowed to run the hard rear tyre. Dovi would be at the front until his rear tyre burned out and he had to drop back. The softer option benefitted the genuine CRT bikes which ran less power especially for qualifying which the others couldn't run and they didn't need the harder tyre.

[@alfredobonilha4365]

KZbin algorithm got me into your channel, congrats for this amazing MotoGP history content! Remendins me of The Race's F1 channel, keep it comming mate! I started watching the series back in 2015 (that Infamous Rossi vs Lorenzo) and I remeber a interveriw with Marc Marquez after post-seoson test saying he went cracy when his Repson Honda Team swapped the highly complex ECU he was using for the Marelli standard one for the first time! Standarizing the eletronics was a huge call from MotoGP, and that amazing 2016 season (as well as a few others that followed) were a testment of that! MotoGP should now follow a similar path with aerodynamics, that have become the pivotal development point for the manufactures in recent years!

[@SuperbikeJohn]

Thank You!

[@MaxxMotoDotBe]

Great content John, keep it up! Also: 9:23 Ivan Silva?

[@SuperbikeJohn]

Correct!

[@AlonsoRules]

the precursor to CRT occurred in the early 90's with the rent a bikes

[@idristalib2595]

Great video sir! Subscribed and looking forward to more.

[@lukemiller_6]

Your videos are so interesting, and you're a great narrator 🙏🏼looking forward to many more ☺️

[@jonathanvandenberg3571]

great content

[@MirchiBoy]

Awesome video

[@SuperbikeJohn]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@jeboks777]

"duck" tape? 😂

[@garytaylor4621]

A popular brand of duct tape 🦆

[@jeboks777]

@@garytaylor4621 then that's Duck not duck

[@goodhorsehymn]

​@@jeboks777What's he supposed to do? Capitalise his speech?

[@kenshinalbirunny6834]

i could've swore to watched this video previously

[@KayJblue]

Same.

[@SuperbikeJohn]

You are correct. Dorna took the previous one down as it had too much of there content.

[@KayJblue]

Is this a reupload? I’m getting Deja vu while watching this lol

[@SuperbikeJohn]

Not deja vu!. Dorna took the previous one down as it had too much of their content.

[@macsmith6216]

@@SuperbikeJohn Their content

[@dougiequick1]

Off topic but you know how various places in the world there are twisty public roads with local crazies doing amazing speeds? What IF race promoters capitalized on some of these folks by hosting a race along side of legitimate series made of a select bunch of these folks that is the best of em from all over the world! ...as a requirement NONE of the entrants can ever have held a racing license just your extra talented folks that started as squids and rose above the frey into local legends? Have any factories that want some cheap publicity provide their choice of rider(s) with aptly tuned production bikes and race support....in advance of that have various racing schools vet and endorse only the ones actually talented enough / safe as possible and then let the race announcers hype them up to the spectators....I think it could be SO good! So entertaining even more so for people from the areas these riders are plucked from....and I bet it would have a positive effect of getting some people to stop racing on public roads and gravitating to actual much safer race tracks! Plus as entertaining and exciting as it would no doubt be I think the difference in lap times between these and the "real" racers would demonstrate to typical street racers how far away they actually are compared to what they may have presumed.

[@karvanenpalli8508]

👍🏻

[@vegassasin]

I stopped watching after Lorenzo left.. The dude was a fearsome rider, I dont know i lost interest., Its becoming more about the engineers and less about the riders. Too many rider aids. And no strong rivalries everyone is too nice

[@CRFLAus]

It's duct tape not duck tape. Nobody tapes ducks. Maybe they have but it might be one weird dude somewhere.

[@frux9392]

So Kawasaki out, Suzuki out. Established teams like Honda and Yamaha have extra restriction placed on them and slimeball semi-cheaters Ducati prosper. Yeah, that's such a great system you got there. 🙄

[@lonelywolf3209]

Motogp is going to be renamed as Ducati Gp very soon.

[@bf.258]

Thanks for the monotonous presentation mate.

[@SuperbikeJohn]

You’re welcome!