MotoGP | 2024 | Silly Season

I also find it interesting that the purpose for the pressure sensors on the tail of the Aprilia is to confirm the data that the fluid dynamics software tells the team.

 

More on why he was so slow today: https://www.crash.net/motogp/news/1...tVLZ7KYBwSnSLxJeUpIZE_5wRjvF2US7Az_tlLdZ4y2f0

 

I mean the brothers Marquez are doing well considering their Grandfather died on Monday

 

That's them 'mericans getting down to work

 

Yeah....

Computational Fluid Dynamics is notorious for giving inaccurate predictions. Its easy to have it draw pretty pictures. Its quite a bit more difficult for the model to reflect reality. Hence the need for data like this, really to validate the model.

Im not involved with CFD but Id imagine the data was then used to adjust the CFD model conditions, and if necessary, make the changes needed to the part under evaluation.

 

English, motherfucker! Do you speak it!?

 

2 full days

 

Did you miss the part where he did a sprint simulation and ended up being the slowest out of all the Ducs?

https://www.crash.net/motogp/news/1...yBWFXJnJJmh88DWhtfu1du8jVk#Echobox=1707318063

 

I cant remember, but maybe you can find the Rossi time sheets from his first Ducati test. Wonder where he placed....

 

No worse than 2nd. Sounds a lot better than 8th. (pirro doesnt count)

 

Were there more than two bikes?

 

Ok:

Aero isn't a "hold my beer" sort of activity. Its more like "hold my 12 pack"

 

aero has made the racing worse since you can't draft down the straight any longer. the second bike has no shot at T1 pulling out of the slipstream. think that was most evident at the end of the year, especially in Qatar

 

Someone remembers the good old days when youthful exuberance didn’t stand a chance against old age and treachery.

 

From the article you shared “Only VR46’s Fabio di Giannantonio appeared to be a match for the Marquez brothers if two very slow laps in the middle of his run were discounted.”
Seems to me the Marquez bros were fastest in the sprint simulation and it also states they both went faster than Alex did when he won the sprint race there.

 

Trackhouse

 

errrbody knows you can't be competitive in the championship if you don't win first winter testing.

 

Davide Brivio to Trackhouse.

 

Trackhouse management are no dummies from watching them navigate here in the states. They want results now, not 5 years down the road. Miguel and Raul will be gone after this year for some big names I reckon.