The engine is no longer 90degrees and it's been moved forward to get weight onto the front wheel. The fuel now sits lower in the bike too.They simply did what the rest of the grid have proven works for GP. I think Presi gets way to much credit as being some kind of genius, when he really lucked out that the Japanese were being conservative with fuel when they went to 800s, not to mention he had Casey to make the bike look good. It didn't take long for the Japanese to catch and surpass the Duc. Now that the front works let's hope they can fix the back without having problems in the front again, I think they'll be fine now that they have a proven layout.Fillipo still doesn't get it!!
http://www.gpone.com...-la-Ducati.html
Obviously a typo Fillipo seems to have forgotten who's "hypothesis" it really was!!!
Luck!!! comeon Fillipo are you saying you just tried something with no real understanding of what it would do!!??? Gee next thing you will be saying you do your design research on internet forums!!
As much as I joke about all this, I really am beginning to think they have actually tried it out of pure desperation!!
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Yeah smells fishy, they probably been working on it for longer than we think.
I strongly doubt it or it would have at least been ready for Wroom
Anyway it is now abvious how much of a good idea it was to use last year as a testing year for Ducati, isnt it?
yeah right, and they were still totally lost up to December 2011
I disagree about stoner. This is his usual modus operandi when testing, probably exaggerated by his back problems, and such laps have not proved anomalous in the past. I could argue he might have improved by another second with the full 3 days of testing, although it is also true that he is sometimes fast right from the start but doesn't improve as much as others.
I agree about rossi and ducati though, very promising, the random front end loses which made the 2010 and 2011bikes so bad seem to be completely gone, and they now would appear to have a workable conventional design which they can improve by valentino's and jb's time honoured methods.
Its been tilted back, is the main thing, to stop the "....... vibration" at the front. Not really sure it has anything at all to do with static weight at front, as they had tested that by adding ballast weight at the front ( and another fail ) ...... hence why it should have been obvious to them that they had a dynamic problem.
They had the situation, at the front tyre, whereby in the simple equation for friction F=uN ...... N was fluctuating/vibrating. It would be something that a moment set up around the rear would cause. Those two cylinders banging away, below the centre of gravity of the bike and far spread from the other bank of cylinders, provided such a vibrating force that at times would have also coincided with a VSG that was also set up by the cylinder configuration,
I hope they still don't think they had a static weight distribution problem! or we will see more FAILs again.
