Explained: What is the ‘chatter’ blighting Jorge Martin’s Ducati?
🍌Analysing the 'chatter' problem in Jorge Martin's Ducati, and why it is so frustrating for a MotoꦉGP rider

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Jorge Martin’s weekend at the Qatar MotoGP was blighted by chatter problems.
The Pramac rider somehow still qualified on pole position, won the sprint race, and finished the grand prix on 🐓the podium.
Without chatter issues, Martin reckons𝐆 he can soon becom🍃e unbeatable.
What is chatter?
“Chatter is, essentially, 𒐪a frequency of vibration through the machine,” Michael Laverty explained on TNT Sports.
“It can start from the rear tyre🐟, it can start from the front. It is a frequency.
“It is🧜 so frustrating, as a rider. Your handlebars start to o🥂scillate.
“You don’t have gr🍸ip from the ty🌄res, they are skipping really fast on the ground.
“Ducati have a mass damper in🦹 the seat unit, that does dampeꦓn out the frequency but it doesn’t seem to be doing enough right now.
“I♒t can co𝓡me from suspension, damper adjustment, tyre pressure…
“There are lots of ways to dial it in or try t🗹o make it better for the rider.
“But there is no scientific method of how to e💛radicate chatಞter. It can be such a frustrating problem to have.”
Martin complained after the Qatar grand prix: “At the moment we have vibrations. I cannot use the rear brake and there are some points that are my str𒐪ongest areas of riding which I cannot 🌊use.
“Let’s wait and let the enginee💧rs work. I have done my part, now they need to do theirs.”
He added: “I’m not riding 100% of the package with the new bike. If we improve I guess we can be much mo🦋re competitiꦓve.”
Martin said after the Saturday spr💝int: “I don’t want to speak a lot about the problem because I don🌌’t know if I can. But I had some issues which were the same as in the test.
“During the ༒weekend it was quite okay but today it wasn’t so we need to undཧerstand well and make a step.
“As soon as we𝓡 solve that problem I can be much faster. It is what it is but let’s try to take the maximum out of the situation.”

James was a sports journali�♛�st at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.