[Ducati] Motogp SPOILER

[Peter Bonner]

Right you are Alex,
only the top position finishing counts for the Manufacturer, and Ducati only
needed 6 points coming in to the race (thanks to Capirossi's win at Motegi),
so Alex Barros alone would have sufficed to lock up the manufacturer
championship. Since additional riders could be added to a team, it is not so
easy to say when the team championship is totally locked up, but in reality,
it pretty much is locked up now, even if Ducati pulled out of the last two
races. So a banner year and dominent sweep for Ducati, or wait a minute,
that's right, its all about the Bridgestones, yeah, that's it.

If Ducati had been on Michelins, then the top teams would have had a chance
and Ducati would have just sucked, right?  All this talk about tires is
pretty much a big ploy to placate the Jap. manufacturers, by trying to put a
big asterik by Ducati's championship. However at least one USA magazine got
it right, Cycle World. Read the Race Watch article on page 114 ofNov 07
issue.

Even Valentino has admitted (finally) that it is not just tires, but the
Yamaha is so down on power that is the real problem (cycle news, a couple
weeks ago).

Of course if it was just the tyres, and Bridgestones were the winning
factor, wouldn't one think that more than 1 win would have been on a
Non-Ducati Bridgestone shod bike? And even that one win was flaky, being as
it was Vermin on the Suzuki in a rain race, which was a real crapshoot.
Vermin is a great rider no doubt, and did a convincing second place at
Laguna, but still, only one win for bridgestones not on Ducati, and not even
one win on a non Ducati bike in the dry?

Yes Alex, lack of logic abounds among the folks that earn their money from
ads by the big Jap. companies.

But for us, this is fantastic!

Peter




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alexander M Ortner" <aortner264789mi at comcast.net>
To: "'Ducati Owners Group'" <ducati at ducati.net>
Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2007 8:46 AM
Subject: RE: [Ducati] Motogp SPOILER


> Hi All
> I was confused. The top winners position adds to the constructors
> championship and the total points of the team add to the team
championship.
> Anyway looks Ducati is winning all three including the riders so there
> Honda.
>
> I love the lack of logic shown in some of the comments over the tire
issue.
> Particularly the statements that refer to the top teams. This is difficult
> to relate so bare with me a second. Logic says the top teams are the ones
> finishing on top that simple but it gets complicated when commenter's say
> the "there is something wrong when the top teams aren’t finishing on top"
> What? I think they mean the teams they think should be the top teams,
seems
> like pretty prejudicial statement to me.
>
>
> Alex Ortner
> aortner at comcast.net
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