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January 31st, 2012, 12:50 AM
Casey Stoner hopes the new tire chatter is cured
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World Champion not too happy with the new “more friendly” spec Bridgestone tires (http://www.sportrider.com/news/146_12010_casey_stoner_hopes_the_new_tire_chatter_is_cured/index.html)SEPANG, MALAYSIA, JAN 30 – Repsol Honda’s Casey Stoner doesn’t think the new, user-friendly control Bridgestone tires are causing chatter, he knows it.
“When you go from the old tires with no chatter to the new tires and your fillings are falling out, it’s definitely the new tires,” Stoner said at the Repsol Honda team launch on the eve of the start of the 2012 testing season in Sepang, Malaysia.
Stoner tested the Honda RC213V three times last year, first in Jerez, then Brno, and finally in Valencia at the end of the year. The chattering became an issue when the larger displacement Honda was fitted with the 2012 Bridgestones, tires that warm up faster at the expense of durability. Bridgestone made changes to the control tires after complaints from riders that they were sketchy in the opening laps, and after almost every rider suffered some kind of cold tire crash.
Neither Stoner nor his team can pinpoint the cause of the chatter, “but it definitely changed the bike completely. From a bike that we were pretty happy with and didn’t have any chattering issues to all of a sudden it just being ridiculous, then yeah, we pinpointed it. But unfortunately with tire competition we’d be able to get this fixed, but now it’s the single tire rule.”
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World Champion not too happy with the new “more friendly” spec Bridgestone tires (http://www.sportrider.com/news/146_12010_casey_stoner_hopes_the_new_tire_chatter_is_cured/index.html)SEPANG, MALAYSIA, JAN 30 – Repsol Honda’s Casey Stoner doesn’t think the new, user-friendly control Bridgestone tires are causing chatter, he knows it.
“When you go from the old tires with no chatter to the new tires and your fillings are falling out, it’s definitely the new tires,” Stoner said at the Repsol Honda team launch on the eve of the start of the 2012 testing season in Sepang, Malaysia.
Stoner tested the Honda RC213V three times last year, first in Jerez, then Brno, and finally in Valencia at the end of the year. The chattering became an issue when the larger displacement Honda was fitted with the 2012 Bridgestones, tires that warm up faster at the expense of durability. Bridgestone made changes to the control tires after complaints from riders that they were sketchy in the opening laps, and after almost every rider suffered some kind of cold tire crash.
Neither Stoner nor his team can pinpoint the cause of the chatter, “but it definitely changed the bike completely. From a bike that we were pretty happy with and didn’t have any chattering issues to all of a sudden it just being ridiculous, then yeah, we pinpointed it. But unfortunately with tire competition we’d be able to get this fixed, but now it’s the single tire rule.”
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