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

Casey Stoner says some MotoGP riders are “are often faster than they should be🍃"

Casey Stoner
Casey Stoner

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Casey Stoner claims that some front-running MotoGP riders wouldn’t achieve the same good results without t🅺he help of traction contro๊l.

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 improving𓃲 the performance of some riders, according t💖o Stoner.

He was asked by if the𝐆 bike is now important than 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 demonstrate superior, q🔴uality riding n✤o longer exist.

“The only way you can make a difference🐷 is to brake later to enter the corner.

“For example, in 2011 Dani Pe🧜drosa was almost two tenths ♉faster than me on the same bike.

“He d🧔id something incredible with the rear brake t💯o stop wheelies and gain a lot of distance.

“There wa🔜s no difference, he was simply better than me.

“Now the 💟rider’s control elements such as traction, tyre management and wheelie risk𝓀 are masked by electronics."

Could back-to-back pr🐎emier class champion Francesco Bagnaia be as dominant without the🅘 help of electronics?

Stoner sai🔥d: "Pecco races on dirt tracks, whicജh is why he knows how to manage sliding and spinning.

“These are just some of the many riding elements that disappear beh🐭ind the help of extra ౠcomponents.

“In my opinion Marco Bezzecchi, for example, would probably 🔜be more comp🎀etitive.

“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 believ📖es the technology is also having an impact off-track.

Commenting on his ꧙former team Honda, he said: "Alb💯erto Puig isn't working badly in my opinion, but the circumstances have put Honda in difficulty.

“I also understand their position: at the moment the champions❀hip doesn't seem to have rigid regulations, the rules can be adapted and changed depending on the preferences of the manufacturers.

“ღWhy should 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."

Stoner is a two-time MotoGP champi༒on who won hi💃s titles with Ducati and Honda.

It took Ducati 15 years after Stoner’s 2007 suc🍸cess to win again, via Bagnaia in 2022.

Stoner has part-blamed the increasing amount of technology fo🔜r his retirement at the age of just 27.

“I loved riding bikes the most, I lov𒀰ed eking everything that I could out of a bike. I was very self-critical,” he has previously said.

“W🔴hen these bikes became too much electronics, too much wheelie-control, the enjoy👍ment disappeared.

“The series became political.”

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