Rossi on the R1

Here's an interesting quote from David Emmett on MotoMatters.com:

http://motomatters.com/news/2010/07/21/whither_jb_the_mysterious_future_of_jere.html

"When Rossi rode Yamaha's YZF R1-based World Superbike machine at
Misano and Brno, Yamaha's WSBK engineers said afterwards they'd
learned more in those couple of hours than they had learned all season
from their regular riders."

You probably have to take that with a grain of salt, but still, it
doesn't say much for Crutchlow or Toseland as development riders.

-Dirt-

 

If you real the whole thing it seems what he/they were really saying
was that he being Italian and able to speak fully-comprehensable
Italian allowed him to communicate better than their Anglo riders. My
thought is that what this was again is another subtle buffing up of
Rossi, Krop leaving an impression of just another aspect of his
superiority and devine capability, etc., etc. And of course the guys
saying it are Italian and probably under a bit of heat right now for
the reduced post-Spies performance of Yamaha in WSB. These things
really need to be viewed in context, I think.

 

I suppose that's a fair point. I forgot that the Sterilgarda team was
Italian and wasn't looking at it that way. Still, the article
references "Yamaha's WSBK engineers," whom I assumed to be Japanese.
If that's the case the rider/engineer communication wouldn't be any
better than with the WSBK riders.

-Dirt-