Grah0 je napisao/la: 20.06.2019., 11:14
2009 se vozilo na asimetričnim gumama... Btw kakve veze imaju asimetrične gume?
Vozilo se samo na ovoj stazi. I to je bio bridgestone. Ima itekako veze, pogotovo ove michelinke. Po mnogim vozačima ovo su jedne od najgorih guma na kojima su vozili.
Evo recimo Stonerova izjava na asimetrične bridgestonice 2010.
Q: Are you looking forward to having Bridgestone's asymmetric tires here?
Casey Stoner: We've had the asymmetric tires at almost every race this season, and they've been terrible, to be honest. I can't lie, they've been terrible, and I think every other rider can complain with me in the same way.
Already last year we had some difficulties, but they said last year we had the same compound side to side. But with Bridgestone, it's a different situation, I've been with them for quite a few years now, and I understood many times that if we had the same compound on both sides, sometimes a very hard compound, a lot of the time the other side would warm up a lot better than an asymmetric tire.
So when we come here and we have asymmetric compounds, I've found many times in the past that I didn't like the feeling of it, it never really wanted to warm up. I don't know whether it's because of the connection, that it doesn't really work the same with the tire, but we can never get the side of the tire that we don't spend so much time on to really warm up. So no matter how soft it is, it's difficult to get it working. Coming to a track like this, with cold weather like this could be interesting.
Q: On the asymmetric the harder part, only the harder part is different for the other?
CS: Both sets are different. Normally, the softer side will be the same, and on the left side, it will be a different compound. But it's not just a separate compound, it's a different family of tire. It's a different way it's constructed, it's a different type of rubber. What doesn't make sense is that, say in these last races, the softer tires have actually been constructed in the past to withstand more heat, to withstand higher temperatures. So we have a harder compound for higher temperatures, but yet the softer compound is better for withstanding temperatures, so there's no real sense to what they're doing...
Q: So you're saying that with two different compounds, it's not transferring the heat in the softer, so it's better to have one compound with the actual tires, because it transfers the heat better?
CS: Not always. But many times in the past.
Q: It's even worse, because you do not know how it will go...
CS: Exactly. So we use one tire which is probably the soft one this year - it's not soft, it was very hard - and now every soft tire at every track, we can do the race, no problem. No matter how hot the race is, we can run with the soft tire. And for me this is ridiculous, because as soon as we have low temperatures, it becomes dangerous.
So in these last four races, I'm running the softer option, something I've never done in my career with Bridgestone. Because to be honest, we just can't get the harder one to work, it's impossible, it's a stone. It doesn't want to work at all. So everyone is running with the softer option, because they're able to get this one working. And to be honest, it's durable enough for the heat, for the temperatures. So there's no real sense to have the harder one, this should be the hard one and they should make one softer or vice versa.
Q: Have you had this problem for a long time?
CS: It's because they have control. It's a control tire, they have control of everything.
Još malo i privilegiranom statusu honde:
Michelin’s Two-Wheel Manager Piero Taramasso
“Since Marc Marquez came it has changed. He goes far off the bike and he brakes very late and strong and puts a lot of force on the front tyre. We had to do a large review: it is more than an evolution, it is more of a revolution – we changed casing, profile, compound.
“We worked a lot for the first season [in 2016], and half of the second, and I would say we made gains of 75 per cent compared to the past. We improved the grip and the feedback for the rider. And we plan to make one more step for next season. We will test new fronts this year to improve feedback and for feeling in the first part of the corner, for [improved] braking and turning.”
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