MOTO GP 2012

funkey_monkey · 30-11-2012 2:22pm

Frostie any word on the story of Marquez and others cheating in Motot2 class?

http://www.speedweek.de/Moto2/news/29432/Schwerer-Verdacht-gegen-Marquez.html

Poor quality translation:

Serious suspicions against Marquez
Günther Wiesinger 31.10.12-10:33

It clues have emerged as the team of the Moto2 World Champion could manipulate the control unit of the electronics unit.

The weekend at Phillip Iceland for Marc Márquez was actually a celebration. The 19-year-old Spaniard secured prematurely with rank 3 for the world title in the Moto2 class. But about his team despite the CatalunyaCaixa Repsol Championship glory appeared dark clouds. The team has been around for months on suspicion of manipulating the motorcycle from the electronics Márquez. Well first concrete evidence have emerged as to how this could.

Since the unit is provided by Honda engines and are sealed, the suspicion is directed to the map of the electronic controller of the standard ECU (Electronic Control Unit). "Normally, the engine will lean on each shift from," explained an engineer in Australia, "because the automatic switch which cuts the ignition for a split second, the fuel supply is interrupted. Thus, the lambda value is lower, in the power curve is actually undesirable. "

The trick of the Spanish team which seems to be that there is a separate mapping on the controller feeds, which is when you turn off the bike each deletes itself again. Such a detection is difficult. With the new mapping, the computer recognizes the switching procedure no more, so that the injection is not interrupted.

In Márquez team has one all on his own suspicions. Gerold Bucher works as a data recording specialist at CatalunyaCaixa Repsol and says, "We find nothing in our motorcycle forbidden, for us is all legal. Our driver does not brake as late as the others and therefore the throttle sooner, "says Bucher often wondrously good acceleration of the world champion.

frostie500 · 30-11-2012 4:18pm

funkey_monkey wrote: »

Frostie any word on the story of Marquez and others cheating in Motot2 class?

There's been lots of suspicion against Marc and his team throughout the year but very little in the line of hard evidence against them. The main focus of the issue is that Marquez has traditionally been able to have better acceleration out of corners and that the team has "found" some of way of achieving this.

There has been nothing to show that the team are doing anything illegal and Moto2 is quite well structured to avoid tampering with the engines or other control parts (any engine can be given to any team after a rebuild etc.)

Far more likely to be the cause of this is simply Marquez' talent level. I was chatting to a couple of the riders at Valencia and other races about how good Marc is and Cal Crutchlow put it best when he said:

“I believe that people have it in for him because he’s the best,” said Crutchlow. “His bike is worse than Espargaro’s. There is no other Suter up there and no-one can do what he does on that bike.

When Cal was asked about Marquez' aggressive and ruthlessness he said:
His biggest strength is that when everyone else is worried about something he isnt. Do you remember about his eye last year? Everyone was whinging about it and worrying about it but he came to the first race and won. I believe he’s a very, very good rider.”

He then joked about it and something along the lines that "if Marc tries anything on me next year I'll fancy my chances in a fistfight against him!"

Over the course of the last two years the Kalex has been the bike to be on in Moto2 yet Marquez has won more races than anyone in the class. He is simply a class ahead of everyone else. That Suter had no right to win the title and you only need to look at someone like Thom Luthi to see the potential of the bike. One race Thom was on the podium the next he'd be down in 20th.

I think that there's a lot made of the Marquez situation simply because he's Spanish and winning. We always look for reasons why someone is dominating etc. and need a rational explanation and for most people the only logic is that they must be doing something illegal. I personally think that it's a combination of the biggest budget, a hugely talented rider and the people within the team.

frostie500 · 30-11-2012 4:30pm

Monkeybonkers wrote: »

I do. Brilliant rider. He could tame bikes that nobody else could.

I'm just after finishing off a piece about Casey's career and how he'll be remembered. I touch on a couple of different things but one of them is how he was successful on the Duc and I firmly believe that it's because of his sense of feel and understanding of what the bike is doing.

I find it very interesting that so often Casey seems to be riding on a different track to everyone else-at Valencia he was the only rider who publically said the track was poor, the chatter issues throughout the season etc.-and I think it's because he has a much greater level of sensitivity for the track and the bike than anyone else.

In the piece I compare his feel for the bike to hearing. We all hear at slightly different frequencies to one another. Usually it's not something that makes a great difference but on occassion it can make a drastic difference in our perception of sounds. On a race bike I believe that Casey can "hear" more from the bike and the track than most other racers and this is what allowed him to "tame" the Ducati whereas Rossi wasnt able to.

Here's the full piece, its very long, but there's some good bits in it and loads of my photos from throughout the season to keep you entertained!

frostie500 · 03-12-2012 10:02pm

Did a top ten for F1 so thought I'd do one for MotoGP as well. Who was in your top ten?

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