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Post by Eddie The Bastard on Apr 15, 2019 20:55:15 GMT
Rea didn't finish second. That's one streak broken then.
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Post by mekon on Apr 16, 2019 8:01:45 GMT
If not for Bautista it would be the Rea show all over again and he'd have won 10/10. People would be saying 'the ducati will win soon' and Rea would be smiling and happy.
Actually we are hearing why the Ducati is so good and why it allows Bautista to do but if not for him, would we be hearing about why the Ducati isn't able to win and what they'd done wrong with it?
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Post by beefus on Apr 18, 2019 6:00:36 GMT
Bautista...
“I love how everybody is trying to suggest what it is!.....Is it the bike? Is it the rider? Is it this? Is it that? Honestly, here is what I think: Its important to have a good bike. I’m a MotoGP rider. This V4 has MotoGP characteristics which help me to be confident and go quicker. A good bike, good team and good rider bring good results.
Cortese crew chief...
“The biggest advantage Bautista has is he knows how to ride with wings. You have to hang off the bike but keep it as upright as you can. Wings push the bike into the tyres, not just downwards but towards the outside of the corner. It puts a lot more stress through the tyres. The rider must hang off the bike more to move the centre of gravity more towards the middle of the corner to help make the bike turn. The position of the centre of gravity of the rider and bike is what makes the bike turn.”
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Post by neilf on Apr 18, 2019 7:49:47 GMT
My take on Bautista's success: he is a very good rider who has come from a championship where the level is very high; his team knows what they are doing; the bike handles extremely well; the bike not only produces more power than it's rivals, it is able to deliver it in a predictable manner; the bike has had at least a year of development behind it, using very good riders and a very good test team (I'm assuming that the WSB and MotoGP test teams & riders are interchangeable).
Chaz is getting there, but his injuries compounded a lot things that he needed to do in order to get comfortable on the bike in order to ride it at the sort of level that he expects from himself.
I hope that the rest of the teams an riders can close the gap, but it'll take an awful lot of effort, resources, time and maybe a shift in development approach.
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Post by mekon on Apr 18, 2019 10:52:06 GMT
The problem is if we move into a downforce era then who is going to take this seriously and actually produce road bikes with this? At the moment Ducati are the only ones playing this games and other than Kawasaki, the only ones that can really win.
Do any of the other manufacturers have the will to do this seeing as sportsbikes aren't the market they used to be? We keep hearing about how the BMW is a completely new bike but they've already dropped the ball committing to the series without aero as it's clearly the way forward if you get a rider that understands it.
I think the problem with the series lies with the bikes being just so beyond normal use now. Back when it kicked off 110hp on a 750 road bike would have been great as maybe road rider could still get near the full potential so it was still 'relevant'. Now the machines are stupidly fast and a smaller demographic of owners isn't going to tapping the potential of 220hp. Other than racing what is the point of advancing the bikes and producing them for a now small consumer base?
This said it's a shame that up to about 2010-2012 it was still a series with decent factory involvement and competition but showing off at the bike cafe seems to move onto look at my custom cafe racer than look at my RC45.
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