Casey Stoner is confident of a repeat performance at Assen – Moto GP news
Casey Stoner is confident that Yamaha’s lead over Honda in Moto GP title battle is due to the revised front tyre that Bridgestone recently introduced.
Yamaha’s Jorge Lorenzo has a 25 point advantage over Stoner. Lorenzo won the last three Grands Prix in style to take the lead and is looking good to prolong that in the coming races.
“We made an improvement in Catalunya with the rear chatter. But we know we've got front chatter from Portugal and races previous,” he said. “But now it's extreme with this new front tyre.”
“I voiced this from the first moment we tested this tyre. We've developed the whole bike around the one before, and they've put one in one third of the way into the season and it's put us in a really difficult situation. We thought we'd be able to set things
up around it, and we haven't been able to thus far. But we've got a long season,” he added.
Honda has been having difficulty with chatter problems all season. Stoner admitted that the change of tyres aggravated the issue.
Stoner admitted to his doubts that Honda will be able to do any better in the next race to be held at Assen.
He said that the team has completed some great races at Assen and also have had some tough ones. He added that the team was lucky that Jorge and Marco were not in that race because they had better pace. It would have made things very difficult for the team.
It was good to see Ben hold off for a win.
The hope for the team is to go and develop more pace which is very important but avoiding injury is an imperative aspect as well. The first priority though is to fix the bike.
It will be interesting to see how Honda fares as the Moto GP season progresses ahead. The Moto GP season leader is Jorge Lorenzo with 140 points followed by Stoner with 115 points and the other Honda driver Dani Pedrosa at third with 101 points.
The next race is in Netherlands scheduled to be held on June 28, 2012.
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