MotoGP: Bridgestone at Sachsenring with the same tires as Assen, alarm at Ducati and Yamaha

Bridgestone: Concern at Ducati and Yamaha ahead of the German GP

MotoGP: Bridgestone at Sachsenring with the same tires as Assen, alarm at Ducati and YamahaMotoGP: Bridgestone at Sachsenring with the same tires as Assen, alarm at Ducati and Yamaha

The German GP begins with some big question marks regarding the tyres, especially at Ducati and Yamaha. The Japanese company will in fact bring the same tires used at Assen, i.e. soft and medium slick tires at the front, and soft-medium and medium at the rear, obviously asymmetrical.

As you will remember at Assen Valentino Rossi (see photo), Ben Spies and Hector Barberà had had huge problems with pieces of rubber literally detaching from the tyre.

The big Bridgestone boss Shinichi Yamashita, General Manager Tire Development Department, had announced that the tires in question would be immediately shipped to Japan for prompt verification, but to date there is no response and above all no deadline for knowing the verification result.

We hope at least that this will arrive before Mugello, which will take place immediately after the German GP. The Tuscan track in fact has a very long straight that still brings to mind the tire blowout of Shinya Nakano's Kawasaki which tumbled along the straight at around 300 km/h to stop just a few centimeters from the wall, a scene we would no longer want to see!

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19 comments
  • Bridgestone also had problems of this kind in F1, especially in 2003 on Schumy's Ferrari F 2003 GA and also in 2005.

    Bridgestone makes good tires but sometimes certain things happen..

    But the Japanese know how.

  • H954RR said:

    Now it's a tire alert.
    Now the others are saying it that they are not doing well, CASY HAS BEEN SAYING THIS FOR THREE MONTHS!
    What freaks the Bridgestone technicians are, the same story never changes here again.

    1. Stonami77 said:

      Ok, but Honda was referring to grip...the Assen anomaly is very different..

      1. H954RR said:

        Yes, they were referring to the grip because they didn't have any chatter, the chatter makes the tire "jump" and "vibrate", compressing the tire casing, it's as if you keep hitting big potholes where the rubber layer comes off and a bubble is created in the tire. tyre, consequently causing the various layers of compound to flake off in the long run.

      2. H954RR said:

        sorry “rubber layer”

      3. fatman said:

        …wait until next year and you'll see that no one will have +chattering, it will be a distant memory…in my opinion the slopes will become billiard tables…w Uncle!!!

      4. H954RR said:

        I've been saying this for a while, especially on Honda, if anyone comes back I'd be ready to bet on this point.

      5. fatman said:

        ...incredible, I hadn't noticed...in the poll on who will win the 2012 world championship, Rossi is in third place...but do people drink more than me? Ah, ah...my beers have set the tone!!!

      6. Stonami77 said:

        I think that the detachment of the carcass pieces on the three bikes is due to a product defect; H954RR if what you say is true we should have seen the Hondas on the canvas at every race, considering the chronic Chatter they have; We will have to wait for the Japanese's analysis..
        PS: Anyway Dani used the new chassis while Stoner used the old one... I think there have been improvements at least in part... anyway the Chatter one is a question and depends on various factors which on some tracks can fail and limit the phenomenon ..see Assen; the important thing is that Hondas without Chatter are great...

      7. H954RR said:

        Stonami77, well as I wrote it might seem like I mean it for sure but I assumed that that was the reason even if it is not excluded that it could be a cause, logically, obviously it would have been an already existing defect in the tire that will be known ' from Bridgestone's statements, provided they tell the truth.

    2. Zidan said:

      but why why why why do you have to say bullshit that you know nothing about?
      manufacturer of rubber articles since 1991, over 40 years in the rubber sector and what you say is such bullshit that saying it with impressive confidence gave me shivers....
      kindly H954RR don't talk about things you don't know.
      thank you

    3. Andrea said:

      Is it possible that no one ever cares about Casey...?? Evidently he has a credibility problem….

      1. frederick said:

        perhaps because after having stupidly shot zero against MotoGP, now no one takes it into consideration. If he's an idiot, it's a big deal about him.

  • that's why the ducaudi works like a saw, there are plugs on the exhausts good ducaudi

    1. giovanni46 said:

      if it's a joke it wasn't funny, if it's something you think I won't even answer... in any case all motorbikes have protection, and it's used to prevent pebbles or things like that from entering the exhaust pipes ;)

  • bibo said:

    come on the joke was cute!!!
    the problem isn't the plugs on the exhaust, it's the plugs that guide it....

  • bibo said:

    Do you know why we're talking about a tire problem??
    just because the red ones had the problem...how many times have we seen tires in those conditions and no one has ever said anything...

    1. MAAXXX (moderate Ferrari fan) said:

      well.. I won't be very attentive, memory is what it is, and it's not like I watch races from morning to night.. but honestly, to see something like that I have to go back at least to 2006..

  • ultimo1966 said:

    Bibbbbooooooo what are you talking about………….or are you going to get fucked up by yourself or are you just thinking about it? At least three other pilots had the same obvious problem....Rosicone.

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