Hayden Struggles to Go as Fast as a Superbike on his Ducati GP13 | Ducati News Today going to be a buisy winter at Corse!
Did anyone expect anything different? The GP bike is shite and the 1199 is still in WSB infancy, give it a few seasons and it will be there or there abouts! The GP13.....need a blank page starting...it just doesn't work, and you can't polish a turd!
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Didnt the 916 win straight out of the box thou? You're right thou, I cant see much silverware heading Ducatis way in 2013 :frown:
i saw this but eugene Laverty went faster than the moto gp Ducatis on a world superbike Aprillia !!!! jesus
Correct 999 won from day one, first world championship race was world superstock at Valencia with Lorenzo Lanzi on board, bloody freezing in that grandstand
The thing is that you can't compare the current MotoGP bikes with Superbikes, as there are all sorts of rules which inhibit the MotoGP bikes - limited fuel, limited number of engines (and getting worse!), sealed engines, standardised tyres (may not be right for the chassis ... rofl!), the new standardised ECU, and so on. These engines have to do a couple of thousand miles before the end of the season so they just cannot be tuned in the same way that the Superbike engines can, as they can be rebuilt between races! To me it's very counter-intuitive to the whole point of MotoGP bikes, and maybe that's why it's been so dull of late?
Are your sure that a motogp is slower than a WSBK bike? I 'm sure there is no sense or appeal in a 3 brand 6x more expensive series being slower then the All brands cheaper option ....
about the tire issue : why son't the sell a GP12 to a private owner who then tests it with different tyres? i'm got 5K left!