There aren't any replacements, it's probably as well to write this year off. Cook/Kemp and Thompson/Hagon were both just deckchair shuffling. The only change to make would involve taking a punt on an unknown Pole or similar and no way will Stewart do that, it also might not make any difference anyway. I didn't think I'd say this but I reckon we need a new no.1 next year.
Clearly something not right here. 0's and 1's is inexcusable from Becker, we can't carry that, Fricke I'm bitterly disappointed with this year, Masters is on the way down, Cook wasn't the answer either. I wouldn't mind but it's clearly as bad at BP as on the road too.
Commentary suggested he had nowhere to go because the Lynn rider ( Rowe?) leaned over him going into turn 1. Not sure whether that could be deemed as an excuse but otherwise I don’t know why he wasn’t excluded.
That's the issue if anybody is going to stop him, he's clearly got speed and bottle, but nobody else in the series really tries to ape him at all. Especially riding against him. Fricke did well, he might have had more chance had anybody been able to pressure Zmarzlik behind him, but it was too easy in the end.