Casey Stoner’s tactical role in Ducati and Francesco Bagnaia’s 2022 MotoGP glory explained
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Casey Stoner’s 2007 championship with the famous Italian brand was not repeated for 15 long, agonising years until 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Francesco Bagnaia matched the feat last season.
The retired Stoner acted as a rider coach for Bagnaia and then-teammate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Jack Miller, an ace in the pack for Ducati who finally arrested the𓃲ir slump and returned to the top of MotoGP.
Stoner explained his role to : “The first session I noticed that when they exited, t🦂he bike was very aggressive coming out of one of the tur🐼ns. They couldn’t stop the bike pumping.
“But then it works well on the rest of the track.
“So you don’t want to change you♓r set-up trying to make it work for one part of the track, when it works well everywhere else. It was something simple.
“I believe these bikes, how modern they are♛, how much control there is these days, they struggle to learn how to deal with issues outside of electronics.
“It’s no faulꦺt of their own. It’s just how MotoGP is, right🦂 now.
“I ☂basically explained to them short shift. Go up another gear earlier, so it’s on a softer part of the power curve. Then it drives out a little bit smoother.
“Rather than coming out on a big💝ger part of the power range, where it wants to b𝓀uck and weave, where it’s very difficult to be smooth.
“It’s all to do with chain forces. Going up a gear changes the chain forces. It changes how the bike reacts. You can dꦚrive out a lot smoother.
“So rather than change t🌊he 𝕴set-up, it’s just a small tactic.
“From then, it was just bits and pieces that I saw in comparison to other riders. I felt other riders were carrying more mid-turn speed and gaining more time. Then entered the ﷽corner faster, exited faster, they were ma🦋king more time in the middle of the corner.”
Bagnaia had five DNFs in the first half of 2022 before finally putting everything tౠogether in the latter part of the season to come back from a 91-point deficit, the largest ever, to pip Fabio Quartararo on the final day.
The Desmosedici eventually emerged as clearly the best machinery on the MotoGP grid and, ahead of the 2023 season-opener at the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Portuguese MotoGP th𒁃is weekend, Ducati’s bike is expected to still be the mo♊st-envied.
Stoner said about his bond with the team: “A lot of good friends 🙈of mine still work at Ducati so I’m there for the weekend. It’s good to catch up. I have a bit of spare tಌime so I go out, have a watch.
“Fortunateꦦly I was able to see a couple of things. Having an extra pair of eyes is alw⛦ays handy.
“I helped out where I could.
“Of course, ജPecco’s engineer Christian Gabbarini is one of my best friends. Jack, I’ve known him a long ti♛me.
“If I can give them a little bi🐲t to give them a slight advantage? Then, all the better.”
James was⛎ a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering ev🏅erything from American sports, to football, to F1.
