Joe Roberts to ride in Moto2 - SPOILERS

[khp]

AGR Moto2 is replacing Columbian Yonny Hernandez with Joe Roberts.

Full story at:

http://www.crash.net/motogp/news/283316/1/yonny-hernandez-out-at-agr-roberts-in.html

[faffi]

Hope he will do better than the British crasher they brought in earlier in the season.

[khp]

It must have been quite an down & up weekend for Joe. He qualified at the very back of the grid.

The race was red-flagged after 7 laps due to track conditions and restarted for 6 laps as a wet race. That was ... a bit chaotic.

Joe did very well in the wet race to score a 10th place and racking up 6 points in the championship.

[BikeSpeedman]

He did quite well in the wet FP1 as well. Briefly as high as 4th and ultimately finishing in 14.

At first it seems odd for a SoCal boy to be so much better in the wet than the dry but he moved to England when he was 13 or 14 as a home base for his European racing career so it kinda makes sense. Hopefully he gets a bit better in the dry.