Rossi and Lorenzo Saga Continues
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Rossi (top) came out to the press that he would no longer be sharing data with his teammate Lorenzo (bottom) this year.
SteveO here and I recently caught a very interesting clip on
MotoGP.com expressing
Valentino Rossi and his teammate
Jorge Lorenzo’s views on the sharing of data and bike set-up this year. Needless to say, there seems to be no love lost inside the Fiat
Yamaha team. A transcript of the video goes as follows:
Rossi –
“Speaking with Yamaha I think that Jorge, especially last year, demonstrated great speed. And also good attitude to fix and set(up) the bike. So now Jorge is already two years in MotoGP so everybody in the team agree that is possible (for him to) make his own way. Also Jorge want to work more on the development of the bike so everybody want him to rise to make his own bike and development alone. At the end it don’t change a lot, also, because all the comments between me and Jorge are quite similar and so is not a big change."
Lorenzo –
“I don’t have anything to comment.”
No doubt Rossi was being very politically correct in his statement, but a little reading between the lines shows just how much animosity there is within the team this year - no wonder there is still a wall between the two in their pitbox.
But the burning question is: Will this help push them to the front once again, even though Lorenzo no longer has access to Rossi’s data, or cause a war that holds the team back? With two of the best riders in the world on one of the best machines in the paddock, we’d have a hard time betting against them…
Post Tags: vaneltino rossi, jorge lorenzo, fiat yamah, yamaha motogp
