Except those things existed on the RCV211.
Obviously though because of the electronics that's why everyone is able to do it now. I just think of all the times Rossi, Dovi and Lorenzo pick the bike up with their elbow after they lose the front.
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Except those things existed on the RCV211.
Obviously though because of the electronics that's why everyone is able to do it now. I just think of all the times Rossi, Dovi and Lorenzo pick the bike up with their elbow after they lose the front.
Read again.
Traction control even existed on even the NSR.
The point was that they were nowhere as sophisticated as they are now.
Ever ridden anything with first gen ABS? Compare that to a modern day bike. Tech has come a long way in 20 years.
Except according to Rossi the spec ECU is like stepping back in time. Just admit it to yourself, Marquez can do things Rossi could never do. Things like saving crashes with his elbow, winning 20 races on a control tyre and winning multiple championships on a control tyre.
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So you're saying that advanced technologies in GP motorcycles developed by factories is enabling riders to ride faster and push performance envelopes further and further?
I agree.
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I'm assuming that the article says Lorenzo and Ducati have parted ways then?
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More or less, some pages translate on Google chrome so I could get the gist of it. Just been reading an article on autosport which is saying Dorna wants to keep him in moto gp and his most likely destination is Marc vds running satellite Yamahas.
Man, who would have predicted that!
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Too bad it couldn't be right now. Would love to see him alongside Zarco, outriding the two factory riders. I can't imagine Yamaha won't learn from this year's mistakes and copy whatever it is that is right with the satellite bikes as a correction to the 2019 iteration. One wonders if they actually have sussed out where they went wrong (other than the first 2018 chassis).
Credit to Dorna then.
Just as was the case with Valentino, the last note for a multiple world champion such as Jorge shouldn’t be as a failure with Ducati imo.
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Motostradamus?
It's not an official, Jorge is out statement, but it's far from encouraging!
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My interpretation is that it's a pre official statement statement, just so nobody is shocked when it comes :lol:
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Yeah but that's just Rossi whining like a big girls blouse. If Marquez was on the Yamaha Rossi would still lose. MM won the title in the "Honda that couldn't be ridden".
I read somewhere (a quote from one of the factory Yamaha techs), that it's simply down to Zarco using the 2017 engine, which they have a load of data for and is already as electronically mapped out as it's going to get.
They are someway away from this point with the 2018 engine it would seem...
Apparently, the factory boys have also tested a new engine that they both preferred, but it was already too late for the 2018 season.
Does anyone know if they managed to secure the MM software engineers they were rumoured to be courting a few weeks ago?
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Agreed, but they need and I'm sure they will give him a full spec factory bike.
