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MotoGP: Ducati and Kawasaki struggle with 800s
By Michael Scott on 30/03/2008 13:07:57
Suggestions that the 800cc machines are too easy to ride fell on deaf ears over at Ducati and Kawasaki, where riders who were expected to do a great deal better are struggling
proved he had picked up some pace.“Qualifying has given us some inspiration as we've managed to slash our times by a huge amount,” he said. “The rest of the field is within our grasp now.”Team chief Michael Bartholemy was conciliatory. “Anthony has never
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Michael Scott Column - Mar 10
By Michael Scott on 20/03/2010 11:21:19
Savage and sensible cuts in pre-season testing suit old-timers but not rookies. An early return to a 1000cc gathers pace and Rossi eyes Ago’s 122 win record
-short-stroke high-rev F1-type motors: the very essence of the unloved 800cc protos. This is what dictates the need for the electronics needed to make the bikes vaguely rideable.The class will be open also to production-based engines. Interestingly, they will start
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Michael Scott Column - Aug 2008
By Michael Scott on 12/08/2008 12:07:48
Mike Scott spectates on Honda’s ever-growing despair as its former World Champion nearly gets overtaken by a 42-year-old veteran
Honda’s whirligig into despair continues apace. The world’s greatest engine company is having trouble making a competitive 800cc MotoGP engine.The shame.Well, sort of. Dani Pedrosa is going pretty well on the old engine with steel valve springs, he
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Michael Scott Column - Sep 09
By Michael Scott on 27/09/2009 14:50:12
Scott digs deep into the difference in psyche between TT and GP racers, ponders Honda's return to form, Edwards' sexual preferences and Stoner's mystery illness
company solved the tribulations that have spoiled its performance in a made-to-measure Honda-friendly 800cc class?Bear in mind that, on the same new chassis, team-mate Dovizioso – usually the most reliable of riders – had two successive front-end fall
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Michael Scott Column - Oct 09
By Michael Scott on 27/10/2009 15:10:24
Scott reflects on Donington’s final fling, explains why the privateer’s glory days could be numbered, why the future’s ginger and laments Ducati’s wet rubber decisions...
that their pet project will get beaten?Happily, it’s probably more of a tub-thumping threat than a real plan – an attempt to embarrass the factories to make enough 800cc prototypes to lift grid numbers from the current pitiful 17.Trouble is, every one of Dorna
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Michael Scott Column - Jan 10
By Michael Scott on 30/01/2010 10:37:51
On Valentino the chicken slayer, data thief and nine times World Champion, the sad death of the 250s and the enforced demise of the post-race burnout. Snivel... Sniff...
in Malaysia today.”Looked to me as if they were a bit late. Bring on the satay sauce, someone.Three years in, the 800cc MotoGP generation has won few friends. The lack of torque of the smaller engines has changed premier-class racing from a battle of bruisers
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