The Discord Inside Ducati Corse?
by chase winstead
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
These are probably not happy days inside the halls of Ducati Corse.
Ducati's MotoGP team has struggled during both preseason tests at Sepang, languishing about the same distance behind Honda and Yamaha as it did in during a winless 2011, what's now considered a "lost season" in Bologna. Factory riders Valentino Rossi and Nicky Hayden complained at different times about different ends of the new GP12, at times saying the bike lacked front-end feel or rear-wheel traction.
Meanwhile, team officials admit that new parts to help improve the aluminum spar-framed GP12 may not be ready until late May.
Gulp. But at the risk of sounding like a late-night infomercial carnival barker, that's not all....more