News: Aerodynamics Capirossi MotoGP San Carlo Honda Gresini simoncelli
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MotoGP Aerodynamic, The Essential Factor Indeed
With just a little margins between succeed and failure in MotoGP, the essential of every detail can make big differences to each bike and rider.
“The aerodynamics in every road racing bike is very important because when you go over 200 km/h it makes the difference,” explained Simoncelli, whose height resulted in some modifications to his San Carlo Honda Gresini bike this season.
“It’s not a big modification but each modification can give me more or less 3 or 4 km/h more in the straight,” added the Italian, who goes through the specific changes that were made in the attached video.
News: eni Motorrad Grand Prix Deutschland Fiat Yamaha Fiat Yamaha M1 first German run Jorge Lorenzo Lorenzo’s Team Manager Wilco Zeelenberg MotoGP Sachsenring The World Championship
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Lorenzo yearns better M1 feeling after first German run
The World Championship leader was left disillusioned with his first practice at Sachsenring in which he positioned sixth, as he fought for front feeling on his Fiat Yamaha M1. Jorge Lorenzo encountered a first practice session at the eni Motorrad Grand Prix Deutschland that cease him and his Fiat Yamaha team with some overnight problems to resolve, namely a better front-end feeling on his M1 prototype.
The flow World Championship leader, who has won the last three races arrival into Sachsenring, was sixth fastest in the hour-long practice at 0.703s off Dani Pedrosa’s leading lap time. Lorenzo elaborated a change in the manner he rides for Saturday’s second practice and qualification sessions in order to recapture feeling and get back toward the top end of the timesheet ahead of Sunday’s race.
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Assen New Corner, Storner Likes It
Casey Stoner, the Ducati Marlboro rider reach the second fastest in free practice 1 and Stoner just found out that the modified Ruskenhoek section of the track is more likely Stoner types.
Stoner progress was very well on the pace in the opening practice session of the TIM TT Assen on Thursday, Stoner lapping with a best time just 0.011s off Jorge Lorenzo who topped the timesheet.
With some changes to his front suspension and the progress right know, Stoner feels that he is slowly reaching the level he wants to, but that there is some way to go.
“It’s been one part we’ve been struggling with this year and in the last few races that we have changed the fork we’ve made some good progress,” said Stoner, who has been using a 2009 front suspension fork. “The progress unfortunately has been a little bit slow. In Mugello we were never competitive, at Silverstone by race day we were feeling much better but then we weren’t able to make the start with the bike we had. So I’m a little disappointed because we should have had a podium result this year, quite a few I think, but it’s the way things have gone for us this season and we just need to keep focused for each race.”
Assen Waiting For Lorenzo This Weekend
After gets the third win at Silverstone Jorge Lorenzo is going for his first premier class victory at Assen this weekend.
There is no much time to celebrate the Silverstone victory, Lorenzo has to get going to focus on Assen which takes places this weekend. This the Lorenzo third win of the season, his eight in the premier class and his 29th across all categories. And now Lorenzo lead the standing points to 37 points.
Lorenzo said,
“We have started this run of three races in a row as perfectly as we could have wished and Silverstone was a great race and very important for the Championship.“But now we move on and we just have to try to continue in the same way.”
Lorenzo has experienced success on number of occasions before in Assen. In 2004 Lorenzo won the 125cc race, and in 2006-2007 he won the 250cc titles.
Lorenzo also added,
“Next we arrive at Assen, my favorite track, and once again we’re aiming for the podium. “The team is working very well together and now we will just concentrate on trying to improve the M1 even more; it’s important to keep growing. I’ve won at Assen in 125 and 250 so I’d really like to try to win in MotoGP!”
The Sixth Round 2010 MotoGP World Championship Broadcast Live on RTL 7
Holland motorcycling fans will gets their chance to watch the biggest one-day sporting event, because an agreement from Dorna Sports and RTL 7 has been reached for shown live the TIM TT Assen 2010 by the Dutch broadcaster.
All three categories – MotoGP, Moto2 and 125cc races will broadcast live by RTL 7. The Netherlands will be much waiting performance of regular World Championship riders Jasper Iwema and Michael van der Mark in the 125cc category, and also their four wildcard host riders; Roy Pouw, Pepijn Bijsterbosch, Jerry van de Bunt and Ernst Dubbink.
The programme manager for RTL 7, Peter Lubbers observed the importance of the opportunity that given for Dutch fans about the race event prestige. “The TT Assen has an impressive history and fits perfectly into the RTL 7 plan,” he said. “It is also great to see our Dutch riders in action.”
The TIM TT Assen will be occur on June 24th-26th, as the 2010 MotoGP World Championship sixth round. So, get ready for the race!
Friends, Rivals, Fans : Mugello’s tribute to Valentino Rossi
Friends, rivals, fans all were united within their offerings of well wishes to Valentino Rossi because he recovered in hospital ahead of the Gran Premio d’Italia TIM on Sunday morning.
“Valentino: a heritage of humanity”, “Vale return soon… we miss you” and “Without Vale there is no World Championship” were just some of the messages displayed on the numerous banners draped around the Mugello circuit on Sunday, all in tribute to Rossi after the crash the previous day that had caused his injury.
80,000 spectators showed their support for your 31 year-old, some with applause as they spoke on the crowd via telephone in the Mugello circuit PA system from his hospital bed in Florence, personally thanking them because of their resounding messages of support.
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News Photos & Videos: Bridgestone's Motocycle Tyre Technology MotoGP MotoGP Tyres
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MotoGP Tyres & Bridgestone’s Motocycle Tyre Technology
The 2010 season watches Bridgestone begin its second year as the Official Tyre Supplier to the MotoGP World Championship, contributing tyres also technical support to every team & rider on the crossway.
The short animated video thereunder reviews the stresses also types put on tyres when on-track, also looks at the importance of tyre temperatures including how they are affected by acceleration, braking & cornering.
It is the second in a two-part animation that explores underneath the skin of Bridgestone’s tyre technology also reviews in detail the serious character of tyres in motorcycling’s champion class.
click on the following link to watch the video:
MotoGP Tyres & Bridgestone’s Motocycle Tyre Technology Video (an animation)
The LCR Honda Rider Randy de Puniet
Randy de Puniet is the racer from French, he has began his fifth season in the main class and that’s for the third time with the LCR Honda MotoGP Team, on Friday night by taking instigation from an off-season testing regime that saw him improve his position in each of the three 2010 tests. De Puniet’s best achievement was eighth fastest, the second fastest Honda, and that’s happened on the final pre-season Test in Qatar.
De Puniet lapped the desert track 21 times in the first free practice of the season. Scored the best time with a lap time of 1’57.031 and placing his Honda RC212V eighth on the timesheet.
Randy de Puniet
“Following the good result we achieved here less than three weeks ago we decided to go immediately for a long run as we wanted to evaluate some traction control mapping for the end of the race. So I just came out and the feeling with the bike was good though the grip level was not as good as the Test. Then we continued to run on 1’57.0s which is quite good (almost half second faster than our lap time in the Test). At the end we compared the bikes to make sure that all is working well and we have got some data now which will improve our engine management a little bit. We have kept the same set of tyres for the whole session so I am pretty sure if we put a new set of tyres on we could improve our lap time.”
Melandri and Simoncelli Very Confident
Before Sunday’s race, They’re prepared to find the great set-ups, they buckle down in the exercise sessions in Qatar. Has been ascertained Marco Melandri and Marco Simoncelli are focused on finding the best set-up on their several RC212V machines when free exercise will commence in Qatar on Friday evening.
“Testing didn’t go particularly well but we still have some things to try and I am quite confident about my race pace,” said Melandri. “I think a lot of riders will struggle to match their pace from Testing and if we can just improve a little and get a decent grid position then we can get involved in a group in the race that will allow me to take home a good result.”
Recalling his previous experience at the track, Melandri continued: “I had a great race in Qatar in 2005, when I fought with Valentino Rossi until the final lap, attacking him for the lead with three corners to go but running wide and having to settle for second place as a result. I also had a good race on the 800 in 2007 even though the bike still wasn’t up to scratch so I still believe we can have a good race this Sunday. It wouldn’t be the first time we have taken a good result after a difficult pre-season. The track is well suited to my riding style so I’m keen to see how well we can do.”