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Nyx13
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Sadly, Rossi wanted a challenge and knew he'd get it with Ducati. He just didn't realise the full extent of it 
Hey Valentino!
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Its a bike that is leased from a factory team. So you have the Yamaha team then they lease bikes to the Tech 3 team for Dovi and Crutchlow. Bikes start even at the beginning of the season, but the factory team will get better parts as the season goes on.
I cannot believe that this card would still be attempted to be played, yet nobody is willing to blame the god and his crew chief for simply not being able to figure the bike out. Could this be as simple as that and rather have nothing to do with money? After all, this bike has received so many new parts (as the doctor has ordered ...) that surely money were spent in mother loads. More than Honda and Yamaha? Probably not, but who knows how close or far apart that was.
Sure it's just the race number 1, but surely that's not very bright future inspiring result, even the most optimistic person would probably agree with that.
Seems like Vale went to Ducati to build Haden a bike 
Ducati suffers (I think) from too much reinvention. New this, new that, best carbon fiber, radical ideas...... lets change for change sake.
Haden rides a point and shoot style that comes from powering out and holding on.
Vale rides to exploit braking and handling advantages.
the Ducati likes the former.
Seems to me to be the case right now anyway.
The bike points and shoots then Cameros into the corners.
Ducati suffers (I think) from too much reinvention. New this, new that, best carbon fiber, radical ideas...... lets change for change sake.
Haden rides a point and shoot style that comes from powering out and holding on.
Vale rides to exploit braking and handling advantages.
the Ducati likes the former.
Seems to me to be the case right now anyway.
The bike points and shoots then Cameros into the corners.
MotoGP riders are in WAY more risk of death than F1/NASCAR drivers. They should be paid more.
Ducatti is in financial trouble so maybe Rossi see's the writing on the wall.
Another team using factory teams equipment, but different team managers/engineers. Like Red Bull F1 and Toro Rosso F1.
Ducatti is in financial trouble so maybe Rossi see's the writing on the wall.
Another team using factory teams equipment, but different team managers/engineers. Like Red Bull F1 and Toro Rosso F1.
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invictus43
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Well, the crew chief can't make the engine smaller.. I remember Burgess telling Yamaha.."Listen to Valentino, and you will go faster..if you don't make the changes he asks for, you will not improve.." I'm not sure it's as simple as that..but if Rossi is asking them to change the bank angle of the engine to make it more compact and allow the centre of gravity to change and they don't do it..I'm not sure there's much he can do.. Hayden may be able ot get more out of the bike..but they're still, the both of them, a long way back..
invictus43
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I wonder, when they changed the orientation of the engine, did they change the direction of crank rotation?
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Bigevildoer
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Ducati is simply refusing to let go of their sacred "L" to switch to a narrow "V". Engineers have fiddled with engine placement and have moved it as far forward as they can. Unless Ducati redoes their tooling etc, they're at a virtual stand still, which in racing, is never good.
As earlier mentioned, Rossi's style simply does not fit the "crash the net" style necessary for the Duc. He's a finesse rider - like a Pavel Datsyuk on ice...
Thanks for that. Didn't know he made that much. I am assuming he is probably the highest paid rider in MotoGP then. Lorenzo makes a fraction of what he brings in.
invictus43
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Could happen if those coca cola rumours come true.
