Posted by wamanning on September 16, 2007, 6:40 pm
michelin a good tire (finally).
yamaha for a good motor (finally).
honda for a hayden-friendly setup (finally).
and stoner for a good fight on a dodgy bike.
if the 800s continue with this sort of racing, i can live with this
motogp formula!
Posted by Mark N on September 17, 2007, 10:09 am
wamanning@email.com wrote:
> michelin a good tire (finally).
Yep. The tire had the speed, but the question was on life, and it turned
out that it lasted long enough.
> yamaha for a good motor (finally).
For Rossi. But what about Edwards (10th, 45 seconds back)?
> honda for a hayden-friendly setup (finally).
Not sure what that means. My guess is that bike was no more "friendly"
to Hayden than it's been all year. He makes the best of it, but it's not
quite enough.
> and stoner for a good fight on a dodgy bike.
Bike? Don't you mean tires?
> if the 800s continue with this sort of racing, i can live with this
> motogp formula!
My unscientific take is that it ended up a Michelin weekend - 1st, 2nd,
4th, Melandri 17 seconds back, Hopkins 19 seconds, Checa in 7th, Elias
41 seconds back, Capirossi 43. If so, you have to give Stoner huge
credit for staying in it. But next time out it could be back to the same
ol' - and it should, considering it's Motegi, where Capirossi has won on
Bridgestones the last two years and Tamada before that. The problem is
when it's a Bridgestone weekend, no one else can stay with Stoner, but
when it's not, there are more guys capable of running at the front. In
Germany, had Rossi and Hayden not qualified so poorly, Rossi not pressed
too hard and crashed out and Stoner made Capirossi's tire choice, we
might have seen very much the same thing there.
Posted by wamanning on September 17, 2007, 11:29 am
> > and stoner for a good fight on a dodgy bike.
> Bike? Don't you mean tires?
stoner's comments suggested it was the clutch. he said it took most
of the race to figure out how to ride with it, and that's when he
started closing up on rossi & pedrosa.
Posted by Paul B on September 17, 2007, 3:46 pm
> > > and stoner for a good fight on a dodgy bike.
> > Bike? Don't you mean tires?
> stoner's comments suggested it was the clutch. he said it took most
> of the race to figure out how to ride with it, and that's when he
> started closing up on rossi & pedrosa.
Yes he said the clutch stopped dragging under braking after lap five
and it was like being in neutral or having the clutch pulled in
everytime he braked. A pity really as it would have been good to see
the 3 of them really going for it.
Paul
Posted by Geo on September 18, 2007, 6:26 am
> stoner's acceleration and braking metrics were far smoother and less
> extreme than pedrosas, yet he was able to fight quite impressively.
> such smoothness, as if his telemetry was on slow-motion, while
> pedrosas was on fast-forward.
> granted, he's boring as a stick of wood in the post-race interviews.
> for that, rossi is tremendous and i welcomed him back. the
> interviewer basically does a 1 sentence introduction, and rossie gives
> an insightful and entertainign recount of the race and his effort w/o
> further prompting.
Doohan wasn't the chattiest of people either but he was a biking god god to
me when I was a bit younger. The guy was a cripple and he still rode like
nobody else did, that was all that counted. Rossi's antics may have won him
lots of half-clueless fans, but I believe that his true supporters onle see
a great rider and nothing else (I personally respect his talent and ability,
but don't really support him).
Geo
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