Oops. Someone forgot to send Guareschi the memo. Don't worry, Vito. It was plain as day anyway.
Oops. Someone forgot to send Guareschi the memo. Don't worry, Vito. It was plain as day anyway.
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It does come off weird. But Vito seems a decent guy. It seems an odd way to express ones logic, but he prob meant well. However, i'll add, since VR & NH have been teammates, they have been equally matched. Which i suppose one could say, 'well when NH gets better, he could make another go at his teammate's performance.'
It is unfortunate for Ducati that all of their racing divisions dirty laundry is being aired very publicly at present. Most punters don't seem to mind as their sales are still quite strong despite all of these goings on in motogp, a double edge sword exists when you hire the worlds most popular and gifted racer of the modern era and the results are far less than postive.
IMO the blame for the engineering difficulties in Motogp can still be predominantely directed at the control tyre. Ducati has to be admired for their efforts in trying to become competative with what seems to be a parallel development project in the gp0 and gp12, if they succeed it will be one of the most spectacular feats in modern motor racing, however unlikely this seems at present one must ultimately have the greatest respect for their efforts in motogp when other larger manufacturers have pulled out or not bothered entering at all.
Rossi's latest comments may just be another big prod to the engineers and the true state of things will not be known until the flag drops at Qatar. I'm hoping they are finally rewarded for their efforts, for more failure will almost certainly mean the end of Ducati and even Rossi in the top class.
This is an amazing offseason, I cannot believe that the head of HRC has come out and said that the Yamaha is a better machine, has this ever happened before? and from the looks of both tests so far he is spot on. Jorge and Ben will be very tough to beat this season
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This bit I believe may be propaganda, has anyone got any real figures for this? Ducati bikes seem far less prevalent on the roads here nowadays, but this maybe empirical also.
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Norah Head
It was the same last year, the only reason Honda got the WC was because of Stoner.
This comment by Nakamoto is merely a Honda friendly way of saying so ........... Nakamoto probably even beieves that Stoner is the fastest and most talented MGO rider ......... ever.
this comment by Nakamoto is merely a Honda friendly way of saying so ........... Nakamoto probably even beieves that Stoner is the fastest and most talented MGO rider ......... ever.
I think mr nakamoto would rather like a new chassis, thanks very much, now that the tyres and the bike weight have been changed, and wanted to put it on the record that hrc and he in particular have actually noted that there was a chatter problem in pre-season testing.
Recognising that the msma are largely responsible for the cost blow out in gp racing in recent years is not the same thing as dorna having a solution, and they may have actually succeeded in annoying the manufacturers with capricious rule changes if that was their aim.
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The big jump has been in the US, and i dont think it has anything to do with Rossi or Hayden. They had a couple of models hit big, when your that small a company compared to Honda, a couple thousand extra sales is a big % jump.
Interesting, building a motorcycle that works would be one of the most spectacular feats in modern motor racing. I would have thought that that is what manufacturers have been doing for decades. What really was a spectacular feat is a rider riding one of the worst bikes in modern motor racing history to more wins then anybody in the era, against the most popular and politically connected rider of all time, when every team mate (all with previous WC's) completely failed to even remotely replicate those spectacular feats.
Ducati is some what of an exotic brand so racing results wont hurt sales. When's the last time a Lambo won anything? I think Rossi might see the writting on the wall, the bike is better but the same exact problems are still there. Even if him or Nicky can get another 3 or 4 tenths out of the bike it still puts them mid pack. I do like that Rossi spoke up about the bike though because Nicky will always be a nice guy and Rossi is sending the factory a message that they need to get aggressive with the changes or else face another frustrating season.
I wish we could get sector times for these test so we could see what HRC is worried about, it might be that they will only have an advantage at the bigger tracks where they can use all that power and acceleration. Yamaha also stated that they have to wait for next year to redesign the bike for the extra kilos so the rule change is hitting them all. Jlo has also chosen to stay with the original chassis and not the revised one they brought to sepang 2. I don't think the extra weight is that big of a deal, they say they want challenges for the engineers any way and every season they go through multiple chassis updates.
Jerez needs to hurry up and get here.
I don't think it's time to get desperate, Guareschi said (I think to GPOne, can't recall now, but I can guarantee it was said) that the reason for the bad lap times and the "return" of front-end problems was that they pushed the engine a lot to the rear in order to collect data for the next steps (improving rear traction).
I my opinion (and Prezi already said that last year) the bike we'll see at Qatar will be a lot different from the current one.
I also think that talking about "next upgrades only after 3 or 4 races" is merely .........
I my opinion (and Prezi already said that last year) the bike we'll see at Qatar will be a lot different from the current one.
I also think that talking about "next upgrades only after 3 or 4 races" is merely .........
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