Ben Spies in full swing with Factory Yamaha Team – MotoGP news
Ben Spies proved his worth in Factory Yamaha Racing team, as he was the only non Honda rider in top-five, following Casey Stoner, Dani Pedrosa, Marco Simoncelli and Andrea Dovizioso.
The RC212V was the only bike to dominate the time chart in Sepang II test. Honda is better with using soft Bridgestone rear tyre in hot conditions instead Yamaha is better on racing tyre in long runs.
The Texan finished his test a second slower behind the leader Stoner. Spies getting 27 this July is older as compared to a lot of other factory riders and the oldest to be rookie with a MotoGP factory team.
Spies has spent six years to craft his skills in U.S, on factory Suzuki team with Yoshimura R&D. Then he raced with Yamaha’s de facto World Superbike team, for a year, winning the 2009 WSB title prior moving to Monster Yamaha Tech3 satellite team for the
2010 MotoGP season.
Monster Yamaha Tech3 has some limitations to it, despite of being a good professional and well managed team.
Tom House worth a long-time crew chief and Spies instantly, discovered that working with a bigger team is more beneficial. His steady progress shows how well he is going with the factory team, still being in his early stage of his MotoGP career.
“A factory team’s a factory team,” Spies said before the final pre-season test at Qatar days. “It’s the best of the best, whatever the latest stuff is to get to at least to try. It’s not always the greatest thing. Sometimes you gotta go through the bad to
get to good.”
“In saying that, I’m a rider when I come in I don’t just come in and I say stuff to stay stuff, to sound like I know what I’m talking about. If I come and we made a change and I don’t know what the difference, I’ll say so. The lap time was the same, but
look at the data, look at the bike, and you got to to tell me which one was better because it was so close. I can’t tell you a difference and I don’t want to go in the wrong direction. That’s how I approach it as a rider. When I know there’s a difference,
obviously I’ll tell them. When I know that we can make the bike better in a certain area.”
A prominent difference between factory and non-factory teams is the type and level of electronics used by them. The factory team has a bigger amount to dump-in to electronic research programs, which is now a crucial point in machines. A key factor in success
can be to change and tailor the electronics to a specific need of rider to enhance his ability.
After consulting with the Yamaha factory engineer, Houseworth feels that the problems, which had been left unsolved in 2010, will be much easy to resolve and working with him full time this year will make smother transitions.
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