"Ducati has been urged to consider a radical revamp of its factory Desmosedici MotoGP contender after Andrea Dovizioso and Nicky Hayden were left completely underwhelmed by a latest test on the Bologna factory’s experimental ‘lab’ bike in Mugello recently. The revised Desmosedici offers barely any improvement on the current GP13 that Dovizioso and Hayden are racing in MotoGP and once again the single biggest complaint of both is a chronic understeer issue that has haunted Ducati’s engineering group right back to the days of Casey Stoner. Comments in Catalunya earlier today by Dovizioso and Hayden have been heard repeatedly from the mouth of nine-times world champion Valentino Rossi in 2011 and 2012, with the Italian demoralised after a futile fight to make the Desmosedici competitive in a disastrous two-year stint. A huge management shake-up, which saw long-term Filippo Preziosi removed, and the promise of financial and technical investment from Audi has not yet yielded any significant improvement from Ducati." motorcyclenews/MCN/sport/sportresults/MotoGP/2013/June/jun1313-ducati-urged-to-radical-revamp/
Posted on: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 14:26:09 +0000
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