Pedrosa to get Bridgestones next season

Someone may already have said this, but I haven't got enough time to read the whole post!

If they have a control tyre, which I hope they don't, It would be unlikely to Mich or Stones, it would be unfair to teams already using them! They would have to pick one that no-one uses now!

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (mylexicon @ Aug 28 2008, 10:52 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>correct me if I'm wrong, but Fortuna were running Michelin in 2006, right?
yep

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (bonnielass @ Aug 28 2008, 08:30 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Someone may already have said this, but I haven't got enough time to read the whole post!

If they have a control tyre, which I hope they don't, It would be unlikely to Mich or Stones, it would be unfair to teams already using them! They would have to pick one that no-one uses now!

It won't get that far, Michelin will just pull out

The Door would be left open for anybody who wants to enter but i can't see anyone who wants to take on Bridgestone right now... Dunlop might get a team or so and the rest Bridgestone could cover.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (ROCKGOD01 @ Aug 28 2008, 07:50 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Ducati will have precidence, and I would bet Vale will be right up there with high concern. Everyone else will get what they get.

Not if there is a control tyre. Furthermore any advantage from running Bridgestones in the past could be eliminated by canging the profile and/or characteristics of the tyre, this could potentially tie in with safetey rumours.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Tom @ Aug 28 2008, 10:22 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Not if there is a control tyre. Furthermore any advantage from running Bridgestones in the past could be eliminated by canging the profile and/or characteristics of the tyre, this could potentially tie in with safetey rumours.
YEes if there is a control tire. That is rubbish. The sheer characteristics of the machines alone require tires to work specificly with those characteristics. This is where the safety lies. Your most important piece of the puzzle are the tires. I just don't believe that a "CONTROL" tire will be the panacea to the issues we all talk about. True development and innovation are achieved through necessity. GP has that at present. Michelin just sucks right now and everyone crys foul. Shame really.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (SuperShinya56 @ Aug 28 2008, 11:24 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Rossi, however, in spite of enjoying the advantage of being a Bridgestone rider, said that he believed it was time to go to a single tire system. Rossi also favors controlling ECU's and either eliminating or neutralizing traction control.

If you've read any of my posts you will note that I'm acutely aware of his rhetoric and I've called upon his fans to stop him.

He is embarrassing himself and tarnishing his legacy.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (ROCKGOD01 @ Aug 28 2008, 02:52 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>YEes if there is a control tire. That is rubbish. The sheer characteristics of the machines alone require tires to work specificly with those characteristics. This is where the safety lies. Your most important piece of the puzzle are the tires. I just don't believe that a "CONTROL" tire will be the panacea to the issues we all talk about. True development and innovation are achieved through necessity. GP has that at present. Michelin just sucks right now and everyone crys foul. Shame really.

World Superbike uses a control tire, and each machine is just as individual in it's "characteristics", yet we see 4 manufacturers (Ducati, Yamaha, Suzuki, Honda) and 8-10+ riders capable of running up front at every event.

True development and innovation can still be achieved through the necessity of running faster than everyone else using the same tire as everyone else. It is fair to argue that tire tech may not advance as quickly, but every other aspect of the bikes will continue to push forward as teams/manufacturers strive to gain a competitive edge.

In a nutshell.....

No one cried foul when the only tire capable of winning consistently was branded with an M. No one was calling for a control tire when Bridgestone and Dunlop shod bikes had no chance of winning, because none of the top riders/teams were on those bikes. Go back 4-6 years and for all intents and purposes MotoGP was already running a control tire, because only M riders/teams contended for the title.

The real problem isn't that M's have been sucking the last 2 years. It's the fact that too many of the top teams/riders are running on M's now that the B's are consistently superior. If more riders were on B's (Hayden, Pedrosa, Dovi, Colin, JT, and Jorge) you would see 5-6 riders fighting at the front instead of 1-2 (Rossi and Stoner) running away from everyone else.