MotoGP Brno: Andrea Iannone, “I did my best, too bad about the problem that slowed me down”
An engine problem prevented the Ducati rider from fighting for the podium
Andrea Iannone MotoGP 2015 Ducati GP Czech Republic Race – Andrea Iannone took fourth place in the Grand Prix of the Czech Republic, the eleventh stage of the 2015 world championship. The Ducati rider gave his all and could have fought for the podium if a problem had not slowed him down. His engine wasn't pushing and as said by the engineer. Luigi dall'Igna limited his performance significantly. Here's what the rider from Vasto said.
“Today we still have to be optimistic because I think I did my best. It was a race in which I could have fought for the podium and so we need to understand clearly what happened, given that my engine wasn't pushing as hard as it was during the rest of the weekend. On the straights I was losing a lot and so I was forced to recover by braking. In any case, I'm happy to have achieved this result despite the problem, because it means that we have achieved an excellent setup on my GP15. Together with the team we were able to improve the bike session after session and we did an incredible job. We are finally back to being competitive and this gives us great motivation for the next races.”
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Splendid race Iannone. The problem prevented him from fighting for the podium and despite everything, he was always in 4th position, keeping his rivals far enough away to be able to do "his" race or rather, the one that the engine conditions allowed him.
I haven't seen the lap times, but I think that a few tenths would have allowed him to fight for that blessed podium.
Even in the most complicated matches (for Vale), the Pesarese always has some "help" from above. It would have been nice to see Iannone fight and "remove" Vale.
Great Ducati
ligera… Iannone could use the new engine and not have any problems. Secondly, Rossi went slowly, slower than the pace he had set in FP4 so he too had problems... he could have gone 3 - 5 tenths faster...
Ronnie, don't look for things that don't exist.
You're the only one here with any common sense (sometimes), but please don't look for things that don't exist I repeat.
Did Vale say, by any chance, that he had problems with the motorbike? I do not think so.
He only did one lap in 1.56.3, the others are all on the pace set in Fp4, but for Iannone it's different, he had a pace of 1.56.alto and always lapped in 1.57.basso, only 2 times did he drop below '1.57.
Iannone on the other hand does, and the telemetry confirms, we're talking about 5 seconds over the course of the race and at the very least, he would have fought with Vale.
He didn't use the new engine because it needed to be mapped and having little time he preferred to wait for the next race.
Rossi's statements:
“I couldn't lap like yesterday, I was 3/4 tenths slower, but honestly we still haven't been able to understand why. The bike was the same as yesterday, the tires were also the same and the temperature was very similar. I thought I could ride in low '56 but instead I was riding in high '56. It's still a podium and it's not something to throw away, but I would have liked to have been closer."
FP4 last laps:
1'56.446
1'56.371
1'56.559
Warm Up best laps:
1'56.953
1'56.593
1'56.872
Best laps race:
1'56.810
1'56.747
1'56.919
Now, given that in FP4 he was lapping significantly faster, in the Warm Up he still achieved some excellent laps, and then suddenly in the race, where he still improved a little, he wasn't even able to set the times of the day before, while Lorenzo and Marquez seems to have maintained or even improved his times, I think it's clear that everything didn't go smoothly for him either.
In FP4 (last outing and last 3 laps) you don't know if he used the softer tire or the one he used in the race, you don't know if it was new or already used and how many laps he had (if it was used)
They found nothing in the bike that prevented Vale from achieving that performance.
Now, a driver claims he doesn't know why he wasn't faster than he did, without any motivation other than his driving, and here we begin to argue that it wasn't up to him, but to other factors.
It's easy to find justifications for performances below expectations, but this is what Vale has always done
Rossi simply said in the statements after the race, that is, off the bike... with no time to look at the data and do an in-depth analysis that they don't know what happened to the performance.
The only thing the riders realized was that the track after the Moto3 race, and it would seem more specifically the Moto2 race, had rubberised, but had become much more slippery.
Even with the medium compound, which is the softest one available, Jorge said that as the race progressed he slipped more and more.
Marquez had the same sensations with the Hard. Usually something like this would seem normal, but the last GP with 4 laps to go they set the record, and it's not the first time, here, instead those who raced with the Hard seem to have lost more performance than those with the medium . So much so that the Ducatis were closer and in my opinion not just because of the track.
PS Ducati didn't go slow, it went as fast as a Ducati, and it's not certain that the lack of power helped Iannone to better preserve the rear.
Maybe they will find a new path, neutering the engine wouldn't be a bad idea on certain circuits... Brno requires much more power at low revs or rather during acceleration and less power at top speed. A crippled Ducati was as fast as Rossi and Lorenzo's Yamaha, which means that it wasn't too bad anyway.
PS Ducati didn't go slow, it went as fast as a YAMAHA...
@Ronnie
Where can you find the various free practice and race times?
Has there been any news now that there's been time to check? I do not think so.
Iannone's Ducati, on the other hand, had the horns which were variable but remained fixed because they remained blocked for the entire race and you know better than me that they have a huge importance, precisely because of the power available at the various speeds..
As for the tyres, some were more or less affected. The temperature was different, the setting then had an influence on him, so much so that Marc said that with the mediums he would not have reached the end of the race.
If you want to find a reason to justify Vale, I'm fine with it, but let it be a concrete reason, which can be verified in some way, it's not enough for a driver to say that he could have been faster and there's no explanation as to why, an explanation like that everyone could adopt it.
PS: blocked air horns affect different phases and not just the maximum speed. They didn't say in which position they got stuck, probably the speed remained unchanged, but perhaps Iannone was affected in the acceleration phase. They also made an estimate of how much he lost over the entire race, 5 seconds at the end of the race say that Iannone would have at least fought with Vale and the greater top speed, combined with the excellent acceleration (if everything had gone smoothly), I suggest that Iannone could have passed Vale on the straight, making counter-overtaking very difficult.
Fisherman, go to the motogp website and look for the results section
The fisherman
Put the three w's then .motogp.com/it/Results+Statistics
click on the race, then on the category, then on the FP (free practice) free practice, Q (qualifying) qualifications, WUP warm up, Race race.
Then several PDF files appear below. Analysis is among the most useful and gives you the lap sessions carried out driver by driver.
You can also go back in years, up at the top with the bar. Better if you log in from the PC, because it doesn't work so well from the mobile phone, I don't know from the tablets.
ligera, neither Lorenzo nor Marquez nor Rossi did a race at the limit like the one in Indianapolis, just look at the last laps. Everyone still had a bit of margin, the tires seemed good to me.
Marquez said that he wouldn't have reached the end of the race with the mediums, or rather he would have struggled a lot. He said that for him the medium rear was not the right solution, just as Rossi said that for him the Dura on the front and rear was better.
Marquez's words were these:
“In the race I tried to take risks to stay with Jorge. In the first laps I pushed to the limit to keep up with his pace, I managed to do so for 7/8 laps, but then when the rear tire dropped I was no longer able to do so. I started having problems entering corners and accelerating.”
“I chose the hard rear because for me and Honda it is impossible to use the medium. You could even use it for ten laps, but then after ten laps the bike moves a lot and it's difficult to control it.”
Then Pedrosa used medium on the front and rear, so there were those who could also take it on the Honda.
I don't know if it was the choice of tire that negatively influenced Rossi's race and perhaps Marquez's against Lorenzo, that's not the issue.
It happened other times, not to Rossi but for example to Lorenzo in Argentina.
It also happened to Marquez when suddenly a small variation in temperature or track conditions overrode the result. In my opinion it is unusual for Rossi to make a step in FP4 and in the Warm Up and then not repeat it in the race. It's at least unusual for him to always improve in the race and not give it his all in practice. These are points of view, for you he was at the top, for me something changed and I don't think it was him who suddenly lost 3 tenths or half a second on his pace.
Hello my dream is to see Iannone on a Honda like Marc instead of this wreck who will never get out of having problems
In Honda he wouldn't have a factory bike, he wouldn't be able to do development. The "wreck" motorcycle, as you call it, was the one developed following the "impositions" of Vale-Burgess who had modifications made as if it were a Yamaha, while the Ducati has diametrically opposite characteristics, much more similar to the Honda than to the Yamaha and I'm surprised that the 2 aforementioned didn't understand how to intervene, indeed, they intervened in exactly the wrong places.
Preziosi (not guilty) paid the consequences (Burgess too, given that he was dumped by Vale), while Vale, on the contrary, had all the possible benefits, he returned to Yamaha only because it was the big boss of MotoGP who wanted him , perhaps now, Lorenzo would have a Vignales as a teammate or an Iannone, but instead they found a rider they didn't want and who, having revised his attitude, which he didn't do in his time with Ducati, nor upon his return to Yamaha, has changed his driving style, reducing his EGO.
Vale had ability, but also luck (I hope it's luck) to find himself competitive this year, now that things are almost back to normal, it's clearer where his abilities are taking him, certainly not to win the world championship because Lorenzo is stronger than him and without accidents or technical problems (which could also happen and which, strangely, I expect), the Spaniard will win the world championship. Vale must be wary of the return of Marquez who, having rearranged the bike as best as he can, has consistently returned to the top.
As soon as I returned from holidays I immediately had to read this jumble of nonsense from this incompetent…. what a nice return...!!!!!
Exactly, stay on holiday, we'll gladly do without these comments.
Do you have something serious to write? Of course not, then shut up!
Of yours for sure…….!!!!!!!
So in your "enlightened" opinion Rossi's D16 had similar characteristics to the Honda...? You see you don't understand anything..!! At that time it had a supporting engine and a front half-frame, it was not similar to the Honda in anything..!! Now the GP15 has similar characteristics to the RCV starting from the 90 degree V and the perimeter frame (as Rossi requested..) You are confusing the present and the past because you are incompetent...!!
hahahah now..just because he finished only a few seconds behind Rossi Iannone deserved to stay ahead of him and he is also stronger. You can hear the joke about when Dovizioso finished ahead of Rossi in Austin and Dovizioso was stronger and would have beaten Rossi on many occasions this year...
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I like Iannone, he's good, he's talented and can still grow but
1) Rossi, not being able to catch up with Marc, slowed down and would have certainly beaten Iannone in any case.
“iannone strip Rossi's paint?”
2) If you only compare Iannone to the greatest of all time then you understand very little about moto ligera…
Then amen, who cares what you think, you're just a clown who posts on a motorcycle site, Rossi already has the respect of all the other riders who consider him a legend. All the riders, technicians, mechanics, interviewers, anyone who knows anything about motorbikes admires and praises Rossi
Watch the moto gp on bt sport with the English commentators who do nothing but praise him, the GOAT, The Greatest Of All Time, that's who he is ;)
Did someone write that Iannone "deserved" to be ahead of Rossi?
It doesn't seem like it to me.
Is it not that, by any chance, I wrote things along the lines of what follows, very different from what you write?
“Iannone, on the other hand, yes, and the telemetry confirms, we're talking about 5 seconds over the course of the race and at the very least, he would have fought with Vale.”
As always, things are written that are completely invented.
Your 2 points then….. But forget it, come on.
God forbid if it wasn't considered a myth, and anyone who questions it has never written anything like that, if anything I dispute the way in which it became one, because, unlike what was claimed before Ducati, it is not true that he had the second (or half) in his wrist, in fact, his teammate was even in front of him (and I'm talking about Hayden). Since 2011 it has become clear, to those who want to see, that Vale has had several benefits that have contributed to making it a legend, then it is clear (and it surprises me that you haven't gotten there yet) that without a capable driver, all the benefits of world they are useless. Vale is a great rider, this is out of the question, but without his very good friend Ezpeleta, first with the regulation changes (starting from the 4-stroke with Honda ahead of a year, but look at that), to arrive at the "sensational" return in Yamaha, Vale would not have become the legend he still is, he would have won a lot, but certainly not like this. Vale has always been “very photogenic”.
As they say: to the wise connoisseur……