<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (waterfire @ Apr 13 2008, 04:50 PM)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Hi..
I came from the race
. (what a show from Lorenzo!) and i've just finished watching the race on Eurosport with portuguese commentaries. There are 2 guys making the commentaries, and midway through the race and for about 10 minutes, they had a special guest that goes by the name of Pedro Ribeiro, and this guy is a technical director from F.I.A., and is part of the MotoGP tour. So for the guys with some knowledge of the technical side of things (of which I have none
), here goes some of the things he said:
- one of the problems with the Ducati is that they reduced the binary/torque from last year, with the purpose of having some earlier power output, and this is making the front end very difficult to control;
- he reckons the Yamaha is the best bike at the moment, and that their electronic system is the same as Ducati (Magnetti Marelli), but has less tuning possibilities, so it's more simple and the setup is easier to achive, whereas the Ducati, although having more options=setups, for that reason, is harder to tune;
- he was also saying that the Bridgestone tyres work better in cold temperatures than the Michelin tyres, and the Michellin have the advantage the hotter the track is;
- he also said, as a personal opinion, that if Rossi had stayed with the Michelin tyres, the amount of data he has from all this years, the sharing of that data with Lorenzo (that is only a rookie and is not yet a guy who can develop a bike as good as Rossi) would be making him not only faster, but also would make Yamaha an even better bike and probably untouchable at the moment;
I keep hearing the Michelins did better at warmer tracks, except Bridgestone cleaned house at the 4 hotest races so i'm not buying!
3 of Bridgestones more dominate races and track temps
Laguna 46 degrees
Misano 42 degrees
catalunya 43 degrees
Michelins 3 most dominate races
Assen 32 degrees
Jerez 31 degrees
Estoril 34 degrees
seems to me the bridgestones did better in the heat to me. I would also like to add the first 3 races so far have been colder then each of there respective races last year and michelin won by a bigger margin without the likes of Rossi. I'd day Michelin does better in the cold. and once the weather warms up, Stoner and Rossi will be back.
