Casey Stoner: “Some riders wouldn’t get same results without traction control”

Casey Stoner says some MotoGP riders are “are oꦫften faster than they shouldꩵ be"

Casey Stoner
Casey Stoner

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Casey Stoner claims that some front-running MotoGP riders wouldn’t achieve the same good results without the 🅠help of traction control.

Stoner is a vocal critic of the technology i🐽n🐻 today’s MotoGP.

Traction control ♚- which has improved safety and reduced highsides by limiting wheelies - is also responsible for improving the performance of some riders, according to Stoner.

He was asked by&nbs𒁃p;if the bike is now important tha💃n the rider, and he replied: ​"I think so and I don't agree with this progression.

“Some riders are much better at exiting corne🦩rs and having more control during acceleration, like Dani Pedrosa.

“The qualities needed to demonꦜstrat⭕e superior, quality riding no longer exist.

“The only 🌊way you can ma☂ke a difference is to brake later to enter the corner.

“For example, in 201ဣ1 Dani Pedrosa was almost two tenths faster than me on the sam🐻e bike.

“He did something incredible with the rear brake to stop wh🌟eelies and gain a lot of distance.

“There was no differenc꧟e, he wa🐓s simply better than me.

“Now the rider’s control elements such as trac🌞tion, tyre management and wheelie r🏅isk are masked by electronics."

▨Could back-to-back premier class champion Francesco Bagnaia be as dominant without the help of electronics?

Stoner said: "Pecco races on dirt tracks, which is why he knows how to manage sliding and sp𝓡in♊ning.

“These are just some of the many riding elements that disap🗹pear behind the help of ex💜tra components.

“In my opinion M﷽arco Bezzecchi, for example, would probably be more competitive.

“There are some riders 🅺who run at the front who I don't think would get the same results if traction control were removed…

“They are often faster than they should be."

Stoner believes the technology is also having an imp𝓡act off-tra💙ck.

Commenཧting on his former team Honda, he said: "Alberto Puig isn't working badly in my opinion, but the c🎉ircumstances have put Honda in difficulty.

“I also understand their position: at the moment the cha🉐mpionship doesn't seem to have rigid regulations, the rules c♍an be adapted and changed depending on the preferences of the manufacturers.

“Why shoᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚuld Honda commit to the development of a motorcycle when the rules change again and again to make them adapt to someone else?

“There is too much movement behind the scenes."

Stone🍎r is a two-time MotoGP champion who won his titles with Du🥂cati and Honda.

It took Ducati🗹 15 years after Stoner’s 2007 success to win again, via Bagnaia in 2022.

Stoner has p☂art-blamed the increasing amount of technology for his retirement at the age of just 27.

“I loved ri🦄ding bikes the most, I loved eking everything that I could out of a bike. I was very self-critica🅘l,” he has previously said.

“When these bikes became too much electrღonics, too much wheelie-control, the enjoyment disappeared.

“The series became political.”

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