Estoril Qualifying

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (TP70 @ Apr 12 2008, 12:29 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>I thought I stated my opinion and asked what others think. The response I got was weak and inflamatry and did not even achknowledge the bulk of the questions.

Generally conversation is made up of a series of questions and responses. If one of the responses addressed the questions and gave a well thought out answer to the question then a serious dialogue could have followed. But answering a question with "conspiracy theory" is just plain weak and requires no thought.

You suggest a question about who they would listen to more would be a good question. Well did you not read my posts?
I attempted to offer my opinion on each of your questions back in post #71. I don't feel that my responses were either weak or inflamatory, but a "serious dialogue" did not follow, ie you never replied.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (TP70 @ Apr 12 2008, 12:29 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>The fact that you can't achknowledge that business decisions are made before and during a season is astounding. To suggest that no one sat down and looked at all the contigencies and then looked at ways of mitigating against risk is below you Babel.

Here is my opinion loud and clear:

One of BS's risks that they would have identified before the season and during the season so far would be Rossi being beaten by Yamaha's on Michelins. In order for this not to happen they would have come up with a strategy. I believe that strategy is to develop tyres that Rossi wants rather than give him JUST tyres that everyone has access to. My opinion is that with the millions of dollars that they have to spend on winning the MotoGP title they would be already delivering tyres that have specific inclusions requested by Rossi.
I think that Bridgestone have been involved in technical discussions with Rossi and Burgess regarding tyres from the start of their relationship last year. I am sure that they will take on board anything that they have to say, but I don't think that they would develop a tyre for Rossi to the detriment of Stoner. Remember that he was the rider to deliver Bridgestone's first championship.

Also, I have read interviews with both Rossi and Burgess explaining how they have had to adapt the bike and Rossi's riding style in order to get the best out of the Stones. Look at Qatar where the bike setup destroyed Rossi's rear tyre whilst Stoner won the race by miles. I know he chose to run an 07 tyre, but presumably that was also available to Rossi.

Rossi is getting to grips with the Stones now - both he and Burgess said it would take a couple of races before they got everything dialled in. He even reckoned that he could have probably pushed harder in the early stages of Jerez once he got to the end of the race and found that the tyres really had lasted.

Anyway, to directly answer your point about development of tyres "just" for Rossi, the fact that Rossi has had to alter both his bike set-up and his riding style implies that this isn't happening.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Son of Doohan @ Apr 12 2008, 11:53 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>How ....... good at qualifying is Lorenzo?
Full credit to Jorge, but let's not forget how impressive the Michelin qualifier + the new Yamaha combination is! Edwards and Toseland are flying too...

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (RCV600RR @ Apr 13 2008, 02:42 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Full credit to Jorge, but let's not forget how impressive the Michelin qualifier + the new Yamaha combination is! Edwards and Toseland are flying too...
Actually, chupa chops was also bloody impressive on race tyres too.

In his second run during QP he did a run of 7 laps which were all in the mid 1:37s. This was better than anyone else acheived. Best race tyre time was 1:37.345.

Next best was Rossi who did a run of seven laps, with 3 of those in the mid 1:37s, the rest being in the admittedly very low 1:38s. Best race tyre time was 1:37.540.

Pedro was pretty close to Rossi, but with a shorter 4 lap run with 3 1:37's. Best race tyre time was 1:37.478.

Edwards managed 2 laps in the high 1:37s in his 5 lap run. Best race tyre time was 1:37.738.

Hayden squeaked in a single 1:37.981 on the last lap of his 5 lap run.

No-one else managed to get into the 1:37s at all on race tyres.

Data taken from motogp.com

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (yamaka46 @ Apr 13 2008, 05:04 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Actually, chupa chops was also bloody impressive on race tyres too.

In his second run during QP he did a run of 7 laps which were all in the mid 1:37s. This was better than anyone else acheived. Best race tyre time was 1:37.345.

Next best was Rossi who did a run of seven laps, with 3 of those in the mid 1:37s, the rest being in the admittedly very low 1:38s. Best race tyre time was 1:37.540.

Lorenzo was mighty imprssive on race tires, no doubt. One thing I've noticed this weekend:
Rossi have been fast right away on each session, often topping the timesheets from start to near end. While others improve, often more than a second, he doesn't improve that much, only to come back for the next session and imediatly dropping the pace about 1 sec.
He changed a lot of his crew for this seson, and I wonder if he have gotten himself a very good computer wiz?
All those data take time to analyze and to me it looks like most of the improvement are in between the practice sessions. We know from pervious years that they work hard, often over night. In '06 with the troublesome chassi his race pace was often a second better than his practice times. But in those days it looked like they needed the whole night to get all the data analyzed.
An thoughts?