[Ducati] Ducati's move to Bridgestone

[Veloce916 at aol.com]

At Laguna this year (as in the past) both GP riders showed up at a  small 
dinner party for the Desmo Owners Clubs on Saturday night of race weekend,  in 
addition to the regular track and sponsor commitments. I believe they  also did 
a San Disk event on Wed. in Cupertino. And a signing session on Ducati  
Island.  The riders always attend a DOC dinner during the week before the  Euro 
rounds. And quite often there are gatherings at the factory for the  workers. It's 
a pretty regular thing at Ducati, and was considered quite  important under 
the regime that was negotiating the contact at the time. I am  sure there were 
many considerations on both sides but oddly enough, it did not  purely boil 
down to cost on either side, which is a widely held assumption. 
Vicki
 
In a message dated 9/27/2007 11:50:27 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
jribaudo at csc.com writes:


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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