four Pole's, one 10th place

What wrong with Mattia Pasini's Aprila. How can you make 4 poles on a bike that cant finish a race. As you could see from Pasini mood in the garage he didnt look surprised, i think he expects not to finish races. Its a shame because he should be leading the 125cc class but is way down the bottom with no chance.

What is the Polaris World Team doing wrong ?

Well the 2007 RSA Aprilias have shown great speed and fragility. all the riders that have used it have had at least 1 failure.

Pasini's teammate hasn't had any problem with his standard Aprilia so IMO it's just a case of bad luck and too damm fragile bike, maybe Mattia is a bit hard on the bike too.

But so many times!!!
How many times does the bike have to die before we stop calling it bad luck ?

You have to start wondering if Pasini's team are actually ...., or perhaps that he is particularly hard on the bikes. Either way, i cannot believe what has gone on this season and I've never seen anything like it, especially not for someone who is sooo fast and by all means should be in the title hunt. Did anybody see his silencer fall off in qualifying?

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Tom @ May 22 2007, 09:50 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>You have to start wondering if Pasini's team are actually ...., or perhaps that he is particularly hard on the bikes. Either way, i cannot believe what has gone on this season and I've never seen anything like it, especially not for someone who is sooo fast and by all means should be in the title hunt. Did anybody see his silencer fall off in qualifying?

I agree completely but I've got my own hunch about the reliability.

To be so much faster than any of the other riders, it seems like his bike has been tuned to be fast, but it's also very fragile. He was never particularly fast last year, but suddenly is on an unreliable rocketship.

Fingers crossed come mugello the bike has been tuned down and he crosses the line and gets on the podium coz he has alot of work to do to climb the latter.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (phleg @ May 22 2007, 09:53 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>I agree completely but I've got my own hunch about the reliability.

To be so much faster than any of the other riders, it seems like his bike has been tuned to be fast, but it's also very fragile. He was never particularly fast last year, but suddenly is on an unreliable rocketship.

He was always pretty fast last year (Bautista was obviously faster) but you have a point, maybe they are trying too hard to get that bike going faster.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Gaz83s @ May 23 2007, 04:43 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Fingers crossed come mugello the bike has been tuned down and he crosses the line and gets on the podium coz he has alot of work to do to climb the latter.

The championships out the window but a podium or win at home would be some justice.