Because these amazing detectives of the internet seemingly know which tyre profile was better than a 20 year veteran with 9 championships.
Fact: Rossi has seen more tyres come and go than anyone else on the grid.
Fact: Rossi was the first to say there was a problem.
Fact: within a short time, more and more racers started echoing his evaluation until there were only two racers left who thought otherwise.
Fiction: People posting here know tyres better than Rossi
Fiction: Rossi has magical powers to make 20 other racers to agree and vote with him. He might as well use them to make them move aside every time he races, then!
Fiction: Conspiracy theories and histrionics are worth the toilet paper I disposed off this morning
There is no need to satisfy the two racers who were complaining either. It sucks for them, but that’s the point of a control tyre. It is meant to make MOST racers happy. Not ALL. If it was only Rossi complaining, I wouldn’t expect it to be changed either. If they wanted to make all racers happy, they can go back to SNS again, which of course will make Rossi win more again and will result in rivers of blood and tears over here.
The long and short of it is that Rossi called it first. If it was Stoner who did this, people would be singing his praises for kingdom come and proclaiming how he is a visionary who gets these things before the others do.
Give me a break.
Take a look at the one and only previous tire vote in 2012, then post you’re assessment. I won’t say too much because I’m biased unlike yourself, but take a look specifically at how Rossi voted and then subsequent comments on why he voted as he did.
The rest of you’re assessment is pretty good regarding the Bridgestone tire, which was very consistent and relatively easy for riders to assess.
Michelin, as I’m sure you know, is a completely different beast altogether. According to ‘the riders’, because ah yeah, I’ve never actually competed in MotoGP and don’t know tires better than Rossi, but hey thanks for waking me up from my fantasy. Sorry ‘the riders’ say the Michelin tires can change a huge amount depending on the track and temperature. What was it 5 degrees or something can make the difference from champ to chump of a tire?
So sure, Michelin can bring 2 tire constructions to test, and to ensure it’s apples to apples use the same compounds in both and due to the construction and operating temperature one tire inevitably is clearly better than the other. It occurred once in the Valencia test where the vote was unanimous bar one gorilla no sorry goat, then the opposite at the next. Change the compound and the result of a vote is just as likely to swing around again. To cut a long story short, Michelin tires are ..... Always have been always will be. Their operating window is too small. That was the whole point of SNS and why it was such an advantage if one particular riders preferences were favoured.
The best part of 2017? Easy, the rivalry of Marquez, let’s call him “the natural” or “nine lives” or “the freak” because he rides like no one ever has, goat and goat milk intolerant riders included. He goes further beyond limits, almost seams to enjoy it saving crashes all over the circuit in a way that sends other riders to either the clinica track medical centre or maybe the shrink. This guy doesn’t like to be encumbered with too much thought. No the rival is the thinking mans rider. Let’s call him “brains” or we could borrow “the professor” from Prost. This guy Dovizioso often finds what looks like the good old “slowest way to win” formula for success that so many riders have employed in the past. We could call him “steady Dovi” but it’s better left to Eddie.
Se we got Eddie v Freddie, Prost v Senna, Rainey v Schwartz, now Marqi v Dovi classic battles, the ones I enjoy the most. Rossi? Irrelevant. But I bet Yamaha wish they still had Lorenzo to develop the bike, seeing as Zarco ended up sticking with the almost ancient 2016 Lorenzo frame rather than 2017 onwards Rossi one. Prediction Yamaha remain up .... creek lost with no direction while Honda and Ducati forge ahead.
