Casey Stoner’s tactical role in Ducati and Francesco Bagnaia’s 2022 MotoGP glory explained
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Casey Stoner’s 2007 championship with the famous Italian brand was not repeated for 15 long, agonising years until 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Francesco Bagnaia matched the feat last season.
The retired Stoner acted as a rider coach for Bagnaia and then-teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jack Miller, an ace in 🌊the pack for Ducati who finally arrested their slump and returned to the top of𝓰 MotoGP.
Stoner explained his role to : “The first session I noticed that when they exited, the bike was very aggressive coming out of one of the turns. They couldn’t stop the bike p꧃umping.
“But then it works well on the rest of the track.
“So you don’t want to change y꧂our 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 mဣodern they are, how much control there is these days, they struggle to learn how to deal with issues ไoutside of electronics.
“It’s no fault 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 bigger part 𒁃of the power range, where it wants to buck and weave, where it’s veꦬry difficult to be smooth.
“It’s all to do with chain forces. Going up a gear changes the c🍃hain forces. It changes how the bike reacts. You can drive out a lot smoother.
“So rather than ch📖ange the set🦄-up, it’s just a small tactic.
“From then, it was just bits and pieces that I saw in comparison to otherඣ riders. I felt other riders were carrying more mid-turn speed and gaining more time. Then en🔯tered the corner faster, exited faster, they were making more time in the middle of the corner.”
Bagnaia had five DNFs in the first half of 2022 before finally putting everything together in the latter part of ꦑthe 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澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Portuguese MotoGP this weekend, Ducati’s 🅺bike is expected to still be the most-envied.
Stoner said about his bond wit▨h 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 time so I go out, have a watch.
“Fortunately I was able to see a couple of thing🐎s. Having an extra pair of eyes is always handy.
“I helped out where I could.
“Of course, Pecco’s engineer Christian Gabbarini is one of my best friends. Jack, I’v🎃e known him a long time.
“If I can give them a little bit to give them a🍌 slight advantageꦰ? Then, all the better.”
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering e🙈verythin♉g from American sports, to football, to F1.
