Miguel the Random Number Generator (MRNG) knows a thing or two about delivering results that do not follow any deterministic pattern. One race he can be absolute dog shit the next he’s winning by a mile. Between those two extremes there’s also a host of haphazard results where his performance makes no sense and nothing is ever as it seems.
This weekend we’re at Portugal – the home of the killer jellyfish and, less nautically, the home of Oliveira.
So surely the home advantage will give Miguel home advantage? Common sense would say yes. Experience would say ‘pick a number between 1 and 24’.
MotoGP has only ever been at Portimao twice. The first time the home rider qualified on pole and absolutely decimated the field. The Portuguese fans went wild…or they would have if they weren’t forced to stay at home knitting fish due to covid restrictions.
But the following year there were no restrictions so the huge crowd almost pushed down the barriers to get in desperately eager to see Miguel pull off what would surely be another amazing win. Sadly what they actually witnessed was MRNG finishing dead last…and then being ignored for the rest of the week by his wife/sister.
So how will Oliveira perform this weekend? Will the home track knowledge outweigh the random factor? Or will Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle kick in and force poor Miguel’s results to fluctuate more than Uccio’s sphincter after a curry buffet?