sabato 8 novembre 2014
venerdì 7 novembre 2014
MOTOGP VALENCIA DAY1
Valencia Day 1: it was an important day to day, eventually you fall within that counts and that Valencia is a great opportunity to discuss with the other team and see on which areas to go to work for the future.
In the morning, the first practice session in sixteenth position with a time of 1.33.345 trailing by 2,049 to say Marquez session taken with care because it was the debut.
In the second practice session of the afternoon to an engine problem has not been possible to conclude by turning all the time available and Randy had to stop in eighteenth place in 1.32.799 trailing by 1,345 from Marquez.
The gap between the two sessions, fell by 7/10 and could have gone even further without the technical problem.
However, the whole day was used to take a lot of data already tomorrow and see how to work on the bike to try to shave a few more tenths.
Valencia Day 1: è stata una giornata importante quella di oggi ,finalmente si rientra nel giro che conta e questa di Valencia è una grande opportunità per confrontarsi con gli altri Team e vedere su che settori andare a lavorare per il futuro.
Nella mattinata prima sessione di libere in sedicesima posizione con il tempo di 1.33.345 staccato di 2.049 da Marquez diciamo sessione presa con le dovute precauzioni visto che era il debutto.
Nella seconda sessione di libere del pomeriggio per un problema al motore non si è potuta concludere girando per tutto il tempo disponibile e Randy si è dovuto fermare in diciottesima posizione in 1.32.799 staccato di 1.345 da Marquez.
Il distacco tra le due sessioni è calato di 7 decimi e si sarebbe potuto andare ancora più avanti senza il problema tecnico.
Comunque la giornata di oggi è servita per prendere molti dati e vedere gia da domani come lavorare sulla moto per cercare di limare ancora qualche decimo.
giovedì 6 novembre 2014
RANDY DE PUNIET,VALENCIA -1
From Valencia Randy De Puniet tells us the day before the big return and his past experience to build on the MotoGP Suzuki in recent months: I'm happy to go back, I missed the races.
I am excited, we do not ask for targets or achievements yet.
I know it will be hard to take the pace at the end of the season.
But do not I will be under pressure, no matter what my future is already written. For me, this race is a bonus. "
Randy de Puniet will be back on track in Valencia riding the new Suzuki, which will run for next year's Superbike. "My role quest'ano was crucial because it was to develop the bike from scratch. The
The next year will be different, the bike will pass to other drivers; But I shall give you my feedback on the tires. It will be a different job, but interesting "
mercoledì 5 novembre 2014
SUZUKI RE-LAUNCH INTO MOTOGP THIS WEEKEND!
The prologue to Suzuki’s latest chapter of Grand Prix racing will open this weekend when the revitalised works team roll into action with the refined version of the GSX-RR at the Ricardo Tormo circuit for the Gran Premio Generali de la Comunitat Valenciana.
Randy De Puniet’s presence as a ‘wild-card’, overseen by the experience and expertise of Davide Brivio, and with the honed GSX-RR, will mark the first time the factory is back on the grid of the premier class since the same Grand Prix in 2011. The outing represents a competitive statement-of-intent ahead of the first testing run for the 2015 season that will take place on Monday and a matter of hours after the last chequered flag of the 2014 championship.
Suzuki has been riding, analysing and testing comprehensively in 2014 with sessions at Grand Prix venues of Sepang, Termas de Rio Hondo, Circuit of the Americas, Phillip Island and Catalunya and have now chosen to re-join the fray and bring a manufacturer with 40 years of Grand Prix history and six (Rider) titles in the premier class back to the sharp-edge of the sport.
“This is a big moment for us because we have been testing for so long,” commented Brivio. “We have been waiting for this. It is only a wild-card appearance and it is the last race of the year but I’m happy to be going to Valencia and I think it is a reward for Randy for the big job he has done on this project.
“It is the end of our preparation and I’m excited,” continued the Italian, who has helmed Suzuki’s MotoGP regeneration for over a year. “This is where the new adventure really starts. I’m aware we have a big job to do, and during the weekend we will take a lot of notes for the work we need to do through the winter. This is our first comparison with our competitors and you can only ever really see where you are through a race situation so it’s an important meeting.”
Suzuki celebrated its championships (and seven constructor’s titles) in a 24-year spell of the sport from 1976 to 2000 and with renowned winners such as Barry Sheene, Marco Lucchinelli, Franco Uncini, Kevin Schwantz and Kenny Roberts Jnr in the saddle of its formidable two-stroke technology. Suzuki is now chasing the prospect of a second victory in the MotoGP (four-stroke) era after Chris Vermeulen gave the marque the initial spoils in the 2007 French Grand Prix at Le Mans under the limitations of the now-defunct 800cc engine regulation. Suzuki’s last MotoGP podium appearance was at the 2008 Red Bull U.S. Grand Prix courtesy of Loris Capirossi.
“Suzuki has a long racing history and it is exciting to be part of the comeback,” enthused Brivio. “I am aware that the competition are very strong and they have kept racing while Suzuki stepped away for almost three seasons, so we need to catch-up and recover the gap and also learn as much as possible to get to their level. The target is to be in a position to challenge our competitors as soon as we can. Let’s start the challenge!”
Valencia is the last stop of 18 on the 2014 MotoGP trail but it is one in which Suzuki has enjoyed reasonably decent showings in previous visits. John Hopkins captured a podium finish with third place in 2007, Capirossi was ninth in 2008 and Alvaro Bautista also broke into the top-10 back in 2010.
Randy De Puniet’s presence as a ‘wild-card’, overseen by the experience and expertise of Davide Brivio, and with the honed GSX-RR, will mark the first time the factory is back on the grid of the premier class since the same Grand Prix in 2011. The outing represents a competitive statement-of-intent ahead of the first testing run for the 2015 season that will take place on Monday and a matter of hours after the last chequered flag of the 2014 championship.
Suzuki has been riding, analysing and testing comprehensively in 2014 with sessions at Grand Prix venues of Sepang, Termas de Rio Hondo, Circuit of the Americas, Phillip Island and Catalunya and have now chosen to re-join the fray and bring a manufacturer with 40 years of Grand Prix history and six (Rider) titles in the premier class back to the sharp-edge of the sport.
“This is a big moment for us because we have been testing for so long,” commented Brivio. “We have been waiting for this. It is only a wild-card appearance and it is the last race of the year but I’m happy to be going to Valencia and I think it is a reward for Randy for the big job he has done on this project.
“It is the end of our preparation and I’m excited,” continued the Italian, who has helmed Suzuki’s MotoGP regeneration for over a year. “This is where the new adventure really starts. I’m aware we have a big job to do, and during the weekend we will take a lot of notes for the work we need to do through the winter. This is our first comparison with our competitors and you can only ever really see where you are through a race situation so it’s an important meeting.”
Suzuki celebrated its championships (and seven constructor’s titles) in a 24-year spell of the sport from 1976 to 2000 and with renowned winners such as Barry Sheene, Marco Lucchinelli, Franco Uncini, Kevin Schwantz and Kenny Roberts Jnr in the saddle of its formidable two-stroke technology. Suzuki is now chasing the prospect of a second victory in the MotoGP (four-stroke) era after Chris Vermeulen gave the marque the initial spoils in the 2007 French Grand Prix at Le Mans under the limitations of the now-defunct 800cc engine regulation. Suzuki’s last MotoGP podium appearance was at the 2008 Red Bull U.S. Grand Prix courtesy of Loris Capirossi.
“Suzuki has a long racing history and it is exciting to be part of the comeback,” enthused Brivio. “I am aware that the competition are very strong and they have kept racing while Suzuki stepped away for almost three seasons, so we need to catch-up and recover the gap and also learn as much as possible to get to their level. The target is to be in a position to challenge our competitors as soon as we can. Let’s start the challenge!”
Valencia is the last stop of 18 on the 2014 MotoGP trail but it is one in which Suzuki has enjoyed reasonably decent showings in previous visits. John Hopkins captured a podium finish with third place in 2007, Capirossi was ninth in 2008 and Alvaro Bautista also broke into the top-10 back in 2010.
Largely flat and encapsulated within a ‘bowl’ that fits 60,000 spectators in the surrounding ‘tribunas’, the Circuit Ricardo Tormo venue (named after the Valencian-born racer that clinched the 1978 and 1981 50cc FIM World Championships) is a winding and tight 4km course with nine left turns, five right and perhaps best characterised by the long descending left-hand curve after the Champi Herreros right handed ‘flick’. The track and the city of Valencia has been the site of the MotoGP ‘curtain closer’ since 2002.
Thirty laps, 120km and 74-and-a-half miles remain of the 2014 MotoGP campaign and De Puniet – who has worked long and diligently with testing mileage of the GSX-RR – will be making the most of his swansong in the series where he notched 252 Grand Prix appearances (and two MotoGP podium results) before taking a berth with the Crescent Suzuki team in World Superbike for 2015.
“I’m excited. I’ve missed racing and it feels like a long time,” the 33-year-old Frenchman says. “We were out at Suzuka (the 8-Hour) but it was a different bike and pipe. I’m proud to be part of this comeback on the factory bike and I know it will be difficult to judge what result we can get but I want to enjoy the race and give the best that I can.
“I like the track even though it is not easy on a MotoGP bike,” he adds, talking specifically about Circuit Ricardo Tormo. “It is a place where you need good grip and traction and that is something we worked a lot on in the last two tests. We are right at the end of the championship; but we are just ‘beginning’. I’m sure Valencia will be positive for us.”
Suzuki’s work will extend beyond practice, qualification and the race across Friday, Saturday and Sunday respectively (covered with a pleasant long-term weather forecast but with the chance of some showers on Sunday) as the primary 2015 test will take place on Monday where tyre warmers will come-off for new recruits Maverick Viñales and Aleix Espargaro.
“The GSX-RR will be the same for the test as used in the race,” says Brivio. “Randy will hand over the bike and it will be the same spec for Maverick and Aleix. We will then start our winter work and our job for 2015 based on the comments and the feedback from those first laps with those riders.”
Thirty laps, 120km and 74-and-a-half miles remain of the 2014 MotoGP campaign and De Puniet – who has worked long and diligently with testing mileage of the GSX-RR – will be making the most of his swansong in the series where he notched 252 Grand Prix appearances (and two MotoGP podium results) before taking a berth with the Crescent Suzuki team in World Superbike for 2015.
“I’m excited. I’ve missed racing and it feels like a long time,” the 33-year-old Frenchman says. “We were out at Suzuka (the 8-Hour) but it was a different bike and pipe. I’m proud to be part of this comeback on the factory bike and I know it will be difficult to judge what result we can get but I want to enjoy the race and give the best that I can.
“I like the track even though it is not easy on a MotoGP bike,” he adds, talking specifically about Circuit Ricardo Tormo. “It is a place where you need good grip and traction and that is something we worked a lot on in the last two tests. We are right at the end of the championship; but we are just ‘beginning’. I’m sure Valencia will be positive for us.”
Suzuki’s work will extend beyond practice, qualification and the race across Friday, Saturday and Sunday respectively (covered with a pleasant long-term weather forecast but with the chance of some showers on Sunday) as the primary 2015 test will take place on Monday where tyre warmers will come-off for new recruits Maverick Viñales and Aleix Espargaro.
“The GSX-RR will be the same for the test as used in the race,” says Brivio. “Randy will hand over the bike and it will be the same spec for Maverick and Aleix. We will then start our winter work and our job for 2015 based on the comments and the feedback from those first laps with those riders.”
Source Suzuki Racing.
martedì 4 novembre 2014
EICMA 2014 AND SUZUKI MOTOGP
EICMA It officially opened the 2014 edition of the leading international trade show in the world of two wheels and nauturalmente Suzuki could not miss with all its new traffic 2014/2015 and as the pearl of his stand GSX-RR What will debut in a few days on circuit Valencia and we all hope he will fight for the top positions in the next season.
This now also the Team Manager Davide Brivio who will be speaking and exhibiting the program of the racing department and for the close race that the actual program approach to the factory more competitive next season.
The motion base is very good, of course you will have to work hard and to fill any difference in competitiveness between our bike and the other factory, or because rivals certainly will not stand with folded hands and will work hard over the winter also to bring their innovations on their bikes and be even more competitive than they are now.
EICMA Si è aperta ufficialmente l'edizione 2014 del salone internazionale più importante nel panorama delle due ruote e nauturalmente non poteva mancare Suzuki con tutte le sue novità stradali 2014/2015 e come perla del suo stand la GSX-RR Che esordirà tra pochi giorni sul circuito di Valencia e tutti speriamo che lotterà per le posizioni che contano nella prossima stagione.
Presente oggi anche il Team Manager Davide Brivio il quale prenderà la parola ed esporrà il programma del reparto corse sia per la vicina gara che il programma vero e proprio di avvicinamento alle Factory più competitive per la prossima stagione.
La moto di base è molto buona,certamente si dovrà lavorare parecchio sia per colmare un eventuale differenza di competitività tra la nostra moto e le altre Factory, sia perchè i rivali non staranno sicuramente con le mani in mano e durante l'inverno lavoreranno sodo anche loro per portare novità sulle loro moto ed essere ancora più competitivi di quanto lo sono ora.
