While back-to-back races can be pretty grueling for riders and mechanics, they provide plenty of down time for rider and team managers. Which means plenty of time for meetings and discussions about the future. Which also means the meat of such discussions gets leaked to the journalists along for the ride.
And so after the Brazilian Grand Prix in Goiânia and the US Grand Prix in Austin, Texas, there has been plenty of time for talk, and for such talk to seep out into the public domain. We already have a good idea of who will be going where, thanks to the leaks of signings before the season began. But in the past couple of days, there has been a flurry of news of some of the unknown riders.
