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| Bridgestone against single tyre rule | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Sep 28 2007, 07:49 AM (190 Views) | |
| Paul_Murtagh | Sep 28 2007, 07:49 AM Post #1 |
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Autosport.com - Bridgestone also against single tyre rule Hiroshi Yamada, manager of Bridgestone's motorcycle sport programme, says the Japanese company would prefer the MotoGP tyre war to continue. A proposal to introduce a single tyre supplier in 2008 was tabled by rights holder Dorna in the Grand Prix Commission meeting at Motegi last weekend. Michelin instantly expressed its opposition to the idea, and now Bridgestone has concurred with its main rival's stance. "At the moment we know Dorna proposed this idea, but they haven't decided yet, of course," Yamada said in an interview with the official MotoGP website. "We would like to continue our current situation, which is competition. "It's very important for us because we can improve our technical development of the tyres with this high level of competition. If we had a one-make race, we have nothing. "We don't like that, we'd like to continue our current situation." I feel that MotoGP should keep the multi-tyre rule that is currently in place. It adds an extra dimension to the racing as we seen as Motegi last week. |
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| u4coffee | Sep 28 2007, 08:38 AM Post #2 |
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I think they should keep the same format for 2008. See if Michalin can get to grips with it and close on the stones... and stoner
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| ppparkinson9 | Sep 28 2007, 08:57 AM Post #3 |
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Toby Moody wrote a good piece on this for Autosport (Subscription only article sadly). Basically he blamed Rossi for the single tyre thing and came pretty close to a hypocrisy charge. |
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| Paul_Murtagh | Sep 28 2007, 09:01 AM Post #4 |
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Just for the record, here's a clip of that article: As soon as someone does a better job, especially one whom Rossi never considered a threat, and on a bike that he had the opportunity to ride were it not for him not having faith in Ducati, then Rossi says it ain't fair. Well life ain't fair at times, so just like the others who put the hard work in on Bridgestones for all those years, like John Hopkins and Loris Capirossi, who at times knew they would be nowhere even before they left home on Wednesday, Rossi had just better count to ten, persevere with Michelin's fight back and realise that they will not be down for long. But late into the Motegi evening on Saturday, it came about that Michelin nor Dunlop knew anything about this at all. Frederic-Henri Biabaud was visably shocked when I spoke to him when he came out of a meeting with all of his Michelin staff at the track. Later that evening, the main thing that came to light was that this hadn't originated from Dorna but from Rossi himself, tired of losing and looking for a level playing field. This is the biggest sour grape job ever, and as much as Rossi is a genuinely good guy at heart, he seems to forget that when he was winning 62 MotoGP races on Michelin tyres, he was happy to win, win, win, take five titles - and take the money, too. As soon as someone does a better job, especially one whom Rossi never considered a threat, and on a bike that he had the opportunity to ride were it not for him not having faith in Ducati, then Rossi says it ain't fair. Well life ain't fair at times, so just like the others who put the hard work in on Bridgestones for all those years, like John Hopkins and Loris Capirossi, who at times knew they would be nowhere even before they left home on Wednesday, Rossi had just better count to ten, persevere with Michelin's fight back and realise that they will not be down for long. © Autosport.com |
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| safc_fan89 | Sep 28 2007, 09:05 AM Post #5 |
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People make a big issue out of sports stars being sore losers. If they weren't, then why would they take part? They want to win, coming second isn't good enough. |
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| dcoulthard19 | Sep 28 2007, 09:10 AM Post #6 |
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I think there are some good points in that arcticle. People have been saying that Ducati have been winning because the rules favour them. WRONG!!!! Ducati have been winning because they have done the best job with the rules along with bridgestone. Yamaha and Michelin haven't done as good a job. All the teams and tyre companies had the same rules presented to them for this season so there is nothing unfair. So from Rossi there is some sour grapes, also he whilst Stoner made no errors all season Rossi made a couple of key errors and in a couple of races I felt his head was dropped down a bit, not the real Rossi we are used to. I think Stoner has been great this year, he had a great bike and good tyres but he did a brilliant job too, someone so young not making errors is a great feat. Also Capirossi had the same bike and tyres and was miles behind in most races, if he had had the lead role in the team this year and Stoner not being there Ducati would have been miles down the pecking order at season's end. |
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