MotoGP Aragon: Vittoriano Guareschi comments on Rossi and Hayden's race
Vittoriano Guareschi, Ducati Team Manager and test rider, comments on the Aragon race which saw its riders Nicky Hayden and Valentino Rossi finish in seventh and tenth position. This race was supposed to be the one of redemption and instead, although equipped with the new aluminum frame at the front (on Rossi's bike only), the Spanish one was another debacle. The word is up to him.
“This race was very difficult for us but also important because we did a job that led us to start from the pit lane with Valentino but which is also one of the steps we decided to take to develop the Desmosedici. We know that it is not easy for a driver to consciously sacrifice the possibility of performing better and this gives us enormous motivation to try to speed up the work as much as possible. Nicky is also working very hard with his team to gather as much information as possible on the GP11.1 which, despite not having the front end updated like Valentino's, is still a new bike and which still has a lot of room for improvement in terms of set-up.”
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blah blah blah and more blah... meanwhile the others are laughing... but is it possible that Ducati can't find the key to the problem? We really can't go on like this, let them take a 'real' chassis and put it under their asses... with a 'real' engine like in the past since now they no longer even have straight-line superiority!
for the complete frame it takes time, especially if they have only now decided to try to do it;
what can I say about the engine, with hindsight perhaps it was better to focus on the screamer rather than the big bang..
however, it's difficult to know, the screamer should be more powerful but it's also more grumpy..
I'm running out of tires now, I assume that with the screamer it would have been even worse..
The only sensible thing is divorce!
Instead of Rossi, I would have thrown the bike off that beautiful stone wall in Aragon
or I would have seized it like Kocinski did with the Suzu 250 in '93
Legendary John!! He was in Assen and on the straight he was overtaken by Harada's Yamaha, which among other things wasn't fast at all on the straight...
At the end of the race on the return lap he stopped, put it in neutral and blew up the engine!! :)
come on, there's no need to be so drastic, as I see it there's only one way to come out of this story well... the "marriage" must continue and they must put together a motorbike that everyone can ride well; as I have said before:
If Rossi were no longer able to win it would be a shame but I wouldn't make a big deal out of it, but beyond that if he manages to put together a bike together with Ducati that can fight for the title with other riders, so be it...
MAAXXX, IN MY OPINION THERE ARE TOO MANY THINGS TO CHANGE IN THAT BIKE AND
YOU CANNOT THINK OF A DRIVER STILL FAST BEING A TEST DRIVER LIKE LAWSON DID IN THE TIMES OF CAGIVA
TO GO BACK TO THE TOP, THAT IS TO HONDA'S LIVEDDO
IT WILL TAKE YEARS!!
BETTER WITH A DRIVER WHO HAS NO AMBITIONS TO WIN!!
I think that if Rossi had had to be a luxury "test driver" this year, and also next year, he would have very much liked to be able to decide himself and not find himself forced to do so.
But the reality is quite different: that they have to (perhaps) throw everything overboard and start again from the so-called fundamentals of motorcycle engineering is clear for everyone to see: it wears out the tires too much, it goes straight on bends, the engine doesn't even hold up in a straight line. plus Suzuki and so on. Tell me at the starting line of Qatar 2012 how do these people manage to be on the Moon together with Honda and Yamaha who are already there?
Even though I am a Rossi fan (like all Italians), I must admit that Vale perhaps made a presumptuous mistake in thinking of going fast straight away even with the red one and immediately becoming discouraged on the GP11. I think that bike, if Rossi had continued on that, would still have been quite competitive. But the Hondas this year are from another planet
…Guareschi, he no longer knows what to say…poor thing…
and not even Rossi in reality....Ok they will never tell us the true things but at this point it really seems like the time to ask ourselves what we are competing for...
Total disappointment
and persist on out-of-universe technological ideas
I would have already canceled the contract
they are ruining the KING's career
In my opinion, the problem is also Guareschi... he's like Domenicali at Ferrari!
It seems to me that Stoner won a lot with the cart you are describing and not by luck. I would launch a challenge... let Sic try the Ducati and then we'll talk about what Rossi has done.
he's right
Guys, Ducati is neither Yamaha nor Honda, nor Suzuki, they don't have millions of factory workers everywhere and they don't sell millions of motorbikes. It's a small house, with small sales, and a small budget. Just think that after a season they still haven't even managed to change the driving position.... But these things were already known last year when Rossi signed the contract. If you deluded yourselves that Rossi was on fire it's your fault, not Rossi's nor Ducati's. I say this as a Rossi and Ducati fan, eh. And anyway "you can't sell the bear's skin before killing it".
But do you really think that finding a scapegoat is of any use? Rossi or Preziosi, Hayden or Guareschi... The only certain fact is that the bike remains damn hard during bend changes and poor Vale finds himself slow on the rope, losing even on the next straight. Stoner was faster, it's true: but he rides a lot by leaning out of the bike and therefore the angle of the bike was lower. And if you think about it, the bike had another big difference, the engine. Precisely on the basis of these considerations I developed my own conviction, writing it in black and white on my blog. You can agree or not, but it's certainly more useful than blaming each other. If you want to read, just click on my name above.
I partially support DARIO's comment that the Ducati isn't fast, it's not true, however... in Aragon the bike that recorded the maximum speed in the first three positions there are two Ducatis, the first Barbera, the third Abrah... also Stoneer with a perfect Honda he won with the same time as last year with the Ducati...therefore the power/speed is not inferior at all...let's say that the problems came with the unrivability of ROSSI with that type of bike and therefore we immediately went to look for the required corrections from the same...which in the long run confused everyone's ideas...let's be clear, there's no question about the 9-time champion...it's the type of motorbike and its complexity in the Prototypes...because in the brands it's the unbeatable motorbike...
X Tosco La Honda hasn't won for six years .. they are that it disappoints .. I don't win in sstk ... I don't win in SBK ... maybe this World Cup wins ... this..xchè I think the next one win Yamaha in MotoGP..It are all these levels of superiority…? In sales…? Absolutely less..
X Zardoz is all true what you said ... but not as regards sales ... in relation to the factory workers and distribution, the comparison is in advantage as sales x the Ducati is the house that also had 63% more this year 'what doesn't happen in the Jappo...indeed...just think that in just six months the company sold over 5000 DIAVELS, as many Multistradas, 1198 SBKs, and Monsters with double the price ratio of the JAPPOs...IMAGINE IF THE COST WAS LIKE THEIR QUANTITY WOULD THE SALES HAVE BEEN MADE…? For the DIAVEL alone they require from 16.000 to 19.000 euros according to the model…
Dear amateur, Honda only engages in MotoGP and wins there
and if he didn't win in recent years it's also because the others had better drivers...
as far as sales are concerned... it's another matter that has nothing to do with motogp
if they wanted to make a series motorcycle like BMW (1000) or others they would have the technology.
Giovanni... if the Ducati doesn't lower the center of gravity it will never be competitive. The two cylinders that are at the top make the trajectory difficult, you need the engine in line to lower the center of gravity.