BrotoGP

After some consideration, we decided to still record this week's podcast to celebrate an incredible weekend of racing and in part the life of Nicky Hayden. Kev starts us off in best way he knows, though we will do more to honor Nicky once we have more time. Then we jump into the hottest topic in GP, Johann Zarco. CycleGear hooked us up and we've got a Zarco-giveaway for you, so listen to find out how to win it. We then move over to the race winner Maverick, discuss the huge mistakes by the two other contenders, and even talk about Pedrosa again. Jack Miller's amazing words for Lorenzo come up and we finish this one off with dreams of Mugello. A bit mellow this time, but I don't think you expected anything else.

*Apologies about the static. I'm on it.

The Jerez GP round is supposed to be normal, a return back to Europe where we finally see how the real championship contenders will do. But not this year. Herve Poncharal ate his boogers. Dani Pedrosa reminded everyone why he has so many wins and is now 10pts back from title lead. Marquez was unable to successfully push hard for the win. Both factory Yamaha's struggled worse than their Satellite counterparts. Jorge got on the box. Jack Miller kinda threw down, twice. How much more crazy could this round get?!?! This was a fun one, enjoy.

Everyone at BGP felt like we left a lot on the table from last episode. There was so much more to talk about after the COTA round but we know you aren't going to listen to 2hr episodes. So here's our extension of that... AND we even talk about WSBK! This episode starts off with the two underclasses in GP. Franco and Fenati get a lot of air time with plenty of shit-talking. Then we jump over to WSBK starting with the QP incident, Davies' harsh words, and Rea's penalty. On to the racing, its hard to not talk about Rea's dominance and how badly Ducati seems to be choking. That leads us back to Ducati in GP, which was unfortunately more of the same story. We finish this one off with a small preview of the upcoming racing in Jerez.

GP was in America and Marquez won again - are u actually surprised? Even though the winner was somewhat expected, a ton of shit went down and we've got A LOT to talk about. Sorry we don't get to Moto2, Moto3, or MotoAmerica, but I still think you'll enjoy this one. Kev-Rants everywhere! We start off with a slight race recap, jumping right into early mistakes and on-track contact. Zarco gets plenty of air time, especially as we dive into the "bullshit" Rossi penalty. Maverick's mistakes get brought up, including his QP incident with Rossi. Then we move over to the Honda's and Marquez' win. Dani finally makes a podcast too now that he put on a good race, just not good enough to win. We finish this one off with some quick listener questions and more shenanigans.

Maverick continued his domination of everything GP with another win in Argentina. But that's no the main focus of this episode. There were a lot of factory rider crashes that really shook up the field, yet a bunch of the riders claimed "ideal conditions" before the race. Rossi capitalized by putting in a very solid 350th GP after a tough weekend in practice and qualifying. Marquez, Pedrosa, Dovi, Jorge, and Aleix managed the opposite. We talk about some tires, the dirty track, rider's claims about pushing or not, and anything else to try to decipher this crash-fest. Karel Abraham gets some air time for his amazing qualifying performance and not binning-it in the race. Then we move on to KTM's performance in GP, if you can call it that, and their success in Moto2. This episode even gets a bit silly after the outro, so don't shut it off right away.

BrotoGP is back to full stride with GP racing in the Qatar desert. RiderzLaw and CycleGear are helping us out and we even give away a helmet in this episode. We talk about the weather first because this race almost didn't happen - what a clusterf***. Then we jump into the podium finishers and how they got there. After some shenanigans with a helmet and our listener reviews, we bring up some notable performances from Iannone, Aleix, and Zarco. Speaking of the M1, we then explore the development and ride-ability of the different factory bikes. We get to some forgettable performances, specifically from Marquez and Jorge. SAD. Then we finish this one off with a little Moto2 and Moto3 chat.

GP testing is finally over, so we figured we'd round out the off-season with a review of the entire grid... slowest to fastest. But before we get there, CycleGear is now sponsoring BrotoGP and we are giving away a sick AGV Rossi Replica Helmet. Listen to figure out how to win it. After that, we cover the mind-boggling sneaklets, ducted winglets, whatever you want to call them, that Ducati finally debuted. Then we break into our grid review, starting the KTMs. Longest episode ever, definitely worth it!

BrotoGP has a bit of a dilemma every time WSBK racing comes around. Everyone seems to care about GP more and SBK racing gets a bit lost. So for this episode, we are going to convince you (and Kev) to watch this racing. Crazy shit went down in Phillip Island with 3 amazing races. The Rea vs. Davies battle resumed with Marco Melandri spicing it up on the other Duc. The grid shuffle allowed more racers to fight up front in Race2. Even WSS had a crazy tight finish between some unexpected podium finishers. Aside from all that, Kev talks shit about fake factory teams and the little hope their riders have. We sneak in our thoughts on the WSS talent, the new R6, and what will happen when Kenan comes back. Then we hard segue over to GP and talk about the only bit of recent news - Marquez dislocating his other shoulder and his hopes for a long record-breaking career.

BrotoGP here covering last week's Phillip Island Test. Maverick continues his clean sweep of the off-season tests and you know Kev was going to show him some love. President Kev keeps us informed about Rossi's true performance and bashes on all the other fake news floating around about him in 12th. We cover a brewing Marquez-Vinales rivalry a bit, then jump right into all the aero-developments we saw at the test. Duc has to come up, including Jorge's so far lack-luster performance and interviews lying to us about Duc's new fairings. We finish this one off with a preview of WSBK's opener at Phillip Island this coming weekend, including the hopes for Melandri on the Duc and the ailing Hondas.

While we are in between GP testing, BrotoGP is excited to bring you another real and honest racer interview. 2013 AMA Superbike and 2016 MotoAmerica Superstock1000 Champ Josh Herrin joins us in this one to spill about racing in America and his time in the Moto2 class. We start this one off talking about his struggles and successes during the 2016 season and his big plans for the Superbike class in 2017. Then we jump into the 2014 Moto2 season and why things didn't exactly go as planned. Josh covers it all... his riding, the talent, Zarco, Caterham Suter, the struggles with travel, his release from the team, and more. We then transition back to America, discussing the impact that international riders like Toni Elias are making. Things finish off with some personal stories from Josh about trackdays and a little shit-talking.