Fact is mike at that time even with the SNP's they were not competing with the "work on any track" Bridgestone. Many contracts were up inc Rossi's and they were giving no reason for a team to re-sign with them. Personally i think Ducati saying they would go with Michelin was just posturing and mind games. The big H were pissed off with Michelin to the extent Michelin let Pedrosa out with a year or so left on his contract. Everyone knew Michelin were dropping the ball and in high stakes sport like this thats only going to end one way.
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Fact is mike at that time even with the SNP's they were not competing with the "work on any track" Bridgestone. Many contracts were up inc Rossi's and they were giving no reason for a team to re-sign with them. Personally i think Ducati saying they would go with Michelin was just posturing and mind games. The big H were pissed off with Michelin to the extent Michelin let Pedrosa out with a year or so left on his contract. Everyone knew Michelin were dropping the ball and in high stakes sport like this thats only going to end one way.
Michelin has been a public company for decades. They didn't have an 'owner', exactly, but the Michelin family certainly had the lions share of the shares... Edouard Michelin was one of two managing partners, when he died his cousin took over both roles. I don't think there was much infighting over motorsport, it was a purely financial decision. Edouard died in early 2006. The decision not to bid for the MotoGP contract was announced in October 2008.
The decision not to bid for the F1 contract was different - Michelin felt they had been screwed by Ecclestone and said they wouldn't be back until the ground rules for tyre manufacturers were changed. It cost them a lot of money to supply tyres into F1.
As a company, they are probably the biggest name in motorsport - apart from F1, WSBK and MotoGP they have a huge presence worldwide.
And it doesn't look like there re-investing much of that money back into R&D does it.
Why do you say that? They have just completely overhauled the tyre range.
So you say there was infighting at Michelin because the owner died... which there wasn't, and I am being pedantic... OK, makes sense.
Care to enlighten us pedants with support for your assertion that there was infighting in the Michelin boardroom and that was what led to the demise of their Motorsports programmes?
Pedantic because you are trying to focus on minute details ie when the geezer died and trying to make a point that it could not be a cause because it happened 2 years before the inception of the control tyre. Its was well documented the in-fighting at the time and of course im paraphrasing from what was said on tv at the time. 2 years is nothing. Michelin had tyre problems in motogp long before the 08 tyre rule. Dont you remember all the tyres chunking?
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Have you guys seen this video.
These guys are so amazing,talented and original
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9NF2edxy-M&feature=youtube_gdata_player
These guys are so amazing,talented and original
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9NF2edxy-M&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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OMG
This is my favorite video
It is so funny
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVwtro6uQ2c&feature=youtube_gdata_player
This is my favorite video
It is so funny
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVwtro6uQ2c&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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The North!
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Mmmmmmm. Things aren,t what they seem.
Double act honey trap with a Crying Game end??
Seems Jumkie is in for a special surprise.
Double act honey trap with a Crying Game end??
Seems Jumkie is in for a special surprise.
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My post ain't about being impressed, its a statement based upon the information provided by the series organization. No traction control, no anti wheelie, no launch control.
Whether that's good or bad is up to the individual.
Been to all BSB tracks apart from knockhill. What's it like ?
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