MOTOGP » Rossi 'happy' as '09 faster

I am pretty sure that Vale will not show his true speed until the season starts next year!

Quietly confident, room for improvement, a plan and direction. Excellent!

Go Vale!

Quietly confident and sandbagging as usual.

Bob
Thats what we call Racecraft. you bring rifles to the battle ground I will wait with my Gattling Gun until you are within my range. Ratatatatatatat. Your boy lost. I guess Rossi got lucky hey

It hurts Bob, doesn't it.

Hahaha.

How many times have you made that comment this year about Rossi Sandbagging ?. Yes we all know he finds something on race day. But there are other reasons I can think of that could account for the up in pace.

- I think Rossi likes to get a set-up where he is fast and up there without having to push it to the limit in practice. He likes to work on overall bike set-up. How many times I have seen him in practice/qual etc put in one lap at the end to post a fast time. I have read and it makes sense that they try to spend there time finding a race set-up and he reserves that bit extra to push but likes to be fast without having to. Stoner seems to play his hand from the get go.

Very true Paul.
Besides that some people seem to forget they went into every race weekend without tyre data from the previous year,
making it a situation of lagging behind at first and catching up through the practice sessions, all the way up to the sunday warmups that were an important part of verifying the last moment changes they made.
The '08 M1 was already very good, the '09 M1 is specially tailored to the Bridgestones...
look out competition

So the year before they were on the same bike with the Ducati/Suzuki/Kwak? The same set-up? Same track temps? Same everything?
Funny, because I thought with this proto-type racing if you stand still, the tide will wash you away.
All the other Bridgestone riders had was a rough base to work from. Same as the lone star Yamaha rider really...

He did win this years Championship. I know this as it appears on every thread involving Valentino, and the repetition of this gives me the Horn.

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vale last season had no tyre data so had to work from scratch this year he will have far more information to work with for the 09 bike and him and jb developing further the speed factor it will make for a brilliant machine