Valentino Rossi

Goatboy said:

Has anyone even seen this rumour suggested by a credible source? No other site appears to be going near it.

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xx CURVE xx said:

http://www.crash.net...and_yamaha.html

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stiefel said:

Wait, crash.net is now a credible source?

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J4rn0 said:

The red and white Yamaha is the THE Yamaha.

Ducatis have to be all red.

Hondas, they are in Repsol colors.

Anything else is folly.

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xx CURVE xx said:

what is? motogp . con releases breaking news a day after everyone already knows

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stiefel said:

Rothmans

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“What I have said is if we have anything [new to test from Ducati], let’s have it on Thursday and put it in and run it at Mugello where we go regularly,” he said. “To take new stuff to Laguna, it’s not the ideal track to sort of sort anything out. We are in the States, locked into the States for really a month. So I’d like to get it rolling early rather than later. “Bear in mind this bike was put together very quickly and there’s been no sort of organized revision of it to this point. And in a normal engineering enterprise you would make a quick one and as soon as the guys had sort of finished their task for that, you’d have them getting into their stride to build what would be the improved version. It would’ve been nice to see about Le Mans. Haven’t seen it yet. Maybe we’re going to see it at Laguna.”

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However, Rossi’s crew chief Jeremy Burgess believes significant changes are still required and is getting impatient with the rate of progress.​

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“This bike is still a frame wrapped around an engine, rather than an engine designed to go in a frame,” explained Burgess. “We need new crankcases because we can’t keep raising the engine because then the countershaft sprocket gets higher and higher which affects the swingarm pivot and thus handling. You’d think we would’ve had new ’cases by Le Mans, but here we are at the ninth race with the same bike we had at the first tests.​

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“There’s lots of other little things. The Honda gets a jump on us out of the corners because it’s smoother and the Yamaha is another step better. They’ve got primary and secondary injectors, while we’ve only got single injectors.”​

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Talpa said:

thanks mate,



confirming what we all knew, so much for Heaven and earth being moved?

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Nuts said:

BG, you're right, a lot of assumptions but that is what this place is.

Quite honestly, my ..... is not really about Rossi, and I don't blame him for looking out for himself. I think it's wrong for him to try to take Philip Morris away from Ducati, but we are talking about business, and talking about sponsorship from a pretty evil empire, so all is fair, and good luck to him.



My ..... is that DORNA and others have allowed Rossi to call the shots to the extent he now does. OK, the guy is a 7 time world champ, and probably the greatest ever, but he has been a mid packer for the last two years, and he has the strength to walk up to Marlboro and say, he ditch Duc, and come with me on a Yamaha, Honda, whatever, and gets support from DORNA.

And you're right, maybe it was Marlboro that approached him.... who knows, but it doesn't show much loyalty to Ducati to even be having that discussion.

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