Lorenzo - Bruised Confidence or Struggling with Bruises?

povol · Jul 3, 2008

He said he didnt have feel for the bike until it burns off some fuel.That would explain his lousy starts and coming forward after half way.I cant remember if his get offs were early in a fuel run or not.If they were,maybe the techs are reverse programming the bike to save fuel at the start and letting it rip when he feels more comfy after some burn off.I dont think he has a confidence problem since he has been fast in the last half of the last 2 races.If it is a confidence problem,its only when he is full of fuel.

michaelm · Jul 3, 2008

As earlier posters have said he seems to have the pain threshold of concrete. Broken bones worried him not a whit. But concussion/brain injury and the concern for permanent such injury seem to stop sportsmen no matter how tough in all sports, justifiably. It also is much harder to predict the time to complete recovery, and harder to be sure you have recovered.

SackWack · Jul 3, 2008

Link to Autosport

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE <div class='quotemain'>MotoGP rookie Jorge Lorenzo was disappointed with the way his race went today at the Dutch TT at Assen.The Spaniard lamented a drop in the performance of his Fiat Yamaha engine during the first half of the race and finished sixth.

"The race hasn't gone as well as I had expected, because on lap ten the engine performance dropped," Lorenzo told Italia1 television.

"It's the new electronic fuel check that calculated that if I kept going like that I wouldn't have got to the end of the race, so that's how it lost out."

michaelm · Jul 3, 2008

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (SackWack @ Jul 3 2008, 06:04 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Link to Autosport
I haven't seen this before, very interesting. I did say in the assen race discussion that I thought they had the factory yamahas set up to go faster at the end of the race. This would seem to give them an avenue to detune a particular competitor's bike easily if they want to, but they are probably still sorting out the technology if they have just started using it. I wasn't aware they had a particular problem with fuel economy with the yamaha this year, but maybe this is a quick response to ducati appearing to have a usable power advantage again.

an4rew · Jul 4, 2008

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (michaelm @ Jul 3 2008, 09:20 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>maybe this is a quick response to ducati appearing to have a usable power advantage again.

i dunno how this is gonna pan out but on some tracks where Rossi has an advantage on the corners and then he needs to make a pass near the end that could be very useful.

kneedragger6 · Jul 4, 2008

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (michaelm @ Jul 3 2008, 03:20 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>I haven't seen this before, very interesting. I did say in the assen race discussion that I thought they had the factory yamahas set up to go faster at the end of the race. This would seem to give them an avenue to detune a particular competitor's bike easily if they want to, but they are probably still sorting out the technology if they have just started using it. I wasn't aware they had a particular problem with fuel economy with the yamaha this year, but maybe this is a quick response to ducati appearing to have a usable power advantage again.
The way they do this is to have the rider manually switch the fuel map on the fly. They could be running the bike lean in the first half and then running her fat at the end.

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