Francesco Bagnaia: Less grip, more vibrations?
Ducati's chatter problems prove elusive at🌌 the Jer🐲ez test, adding weight to the theory that “the less grip we have, the more vibration we have.”
One of Ducati’s top priorities for the Jerez MotoGP test was to work on the chatter/vibration issueꦇ that has troubled many of the Desmosediciꦿ riders at some stage over the opening four rounds.
The only problem was that Jerez 💯produced the least chatter of any event so far for the Ducatis, helping Desmosedici riders fil🅺l the top five places in the grand prix.
The vibrations, believed to originateꦕ from the grip character of the rear tyre, duly ✃remained absent from the Ducatis during the (high grip) Monday test.
That at least added weight to race winner and reigning world champion 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Francesco Bagnaia’s theory that “the less grip we have, the more vibraꩵtiಞon we have.”
Interestingly, the KTMs seem to feel the opposite is the case for the 🥃RC16, Jack Miller saying as he left the t🌳est: "We still need to tackle the vibration issue when the track has a lot of grip."
But assuming it's low grip for Ducati, Bagnaia highlighted the Catalunya round - which follows this weekend’s 🌊French GP - as potentially troublesome and dedicated time at the tes🌜t to working on a set-up for such conditions.
“On Friday we changed many things just to improve the situation of the vibration and [during the race] weekend we didn't have ♓any. So maybe we solved this little problem. But we want to wait. I think Barcelona is a track where we can have some issues with vibration," said the Italian.
Bagnaꦕia, who set the fourth fastest time at the test, added:
“We were f🐓ocusing on a different setting that could maybe help us in a track with less grip. So we used all the last runs on old tyres to test these kinds of settings 𝔉for a track like Barcelona.
“It was very difficult to test something [new] because🐓 the level of grip was quite impressive. It was very 𓃲easy to run in 1'36. So, incredible feeling, but also not so useful.”
Bagnaia’s second Grand Prix victory of the season has propelled hiಞm back up t✤o second in the world championship, 17 points behind Pramac’s Jorge Martin.
He insisted it hadn’t been hard🙈 to test after the high of ♏a thrilling victory over Marc Marquez the day before.
“I'm quite good at turning the page of the book,” he said. “So [Sunday] was a fantastic day, we enjoyed a lot, it was ꦐgreat. We had a nice dinner altogether with the team in the evening, and then it was another day.
“I'm very foc🌟used on improving my feeling with this bike and [at the test] we did anothe𓂃r step in front.”
Free practice at Le Mans, where four different Ducati riders haಞve won for the past four seasons, but not Bagnaia🦹, starts on Friday morning.
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