[Ducati] Ducati's move to Bridgestone

[Joe M Ribaudo]

I hope you're right Vicki...What better way to wind up his career than with
a Ducati/MotoGP Championship....Imagine THAT street party!

If I remember correctly...in his book "...What If I had never tried it.."
(yeah...right) He states that the Ducati team was more bike-focused, than
rider focused.  In other words....Yamaha was happier to build a bike around
HIM...while Ducati builds the best bike their engineers can come up with
(without rider input) and then expects the rider to go win on the
thing...(sadly, reminds me of Bayliss' last full year on Ducati's MotoGP
team :-(
While this may be complete B.S....it did sound good in Rossi's book...  ;-)
I suppose this might allow him to take more responsibility and some credit
for the Yamaha's success....and If he won on the Ducati, it could be seen
as less of a challenge, because their engineering is so top notch (with
less rider input)..  Given success of 2007, I'm allowing myself "hindsight
= 20/20" on that one (oh crap...SPOILER.....SPOILER......Don't read this
message!!!!   :-)
He left the impression that he thought that he'd be butting heads with the
Ducati engineers too much about which direction to go with a bike
(again...could be complete crappola).

Maybe...Rossi should have entitled his book "...It's not about the bike..."
Oh yeah...that one is already taken :-)
http://www.superbikeplanet.com/2006/Apr/triedit.htm

Question on the "time requirement" thing...I don't see where Loris/Casey
are required to do a lot of outside appearances....If the are...I missed
them (or...are they more frequent in Europe...so we don't hear about them
anyway??)

Regards,
Joe
1098s
996
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From: Veloce916 at aol.com
Subject: Re: [Ducati] Ducati's move to Bridgestone
To: ducati at ducati.net
It was never Rossi against Stoner. Stoner came into the picture  later.  I
heard it was Rossi's demands regarding time, or more  specifically, lack of
it.
You get Rossi, Rossi rides. That's pretty much  it.  It was a dealbreaker.
But the dream is still to have Rossi ride a Ducati. And until Rossi wins
the
overall Motogp championship on a Ducati his legacy isn't complete. So
regardless of how things are today it could always change tomorrow.
IMHO
Vicki

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