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Nice catch. Thanks.
I find the last answer by Dovi particularly interesting:
"CW: Do you carry your rear wheel in the air on the last part of the braking as we so often see Marquez do?A.D.: Yes, my style means that I am braking very hard right to the entry, and this means I often have the rear wheel off the track. But, again, this is a consequence of the bike you have. For example, with Yamaha, it is not easy to do that and not the best to use that style. With the Yamaha, when the rear comes down, the bike runs deep and wide and you lose time. With Ducati, it is also a bit like that, but with Honda, you can arrive like Marc arrives and control the slide when the rear comes down."
So, according to Dovi, Marquez is taking full advantage of the Honda's characteristics: he brakes very hard to deliberately lift the rear wheel off the ground, then he puts it down on a more external line, sliding the bike into the corner. That allows him faster corner entry, and the ability to close his line if he's going too deep into the corner. On a Yamaha, he'd probably do something different... Since the introduction of the 800cc and then also with the 1000cc, during the last few years with Lorenzo, the M1 has been developed as a corner speed machine that runs as if on rails. The 990cc Yamahas of the Rossi era (2004, 2005, 2006) were different, as Rossi prefers to point and shoot and slide the bike, same as Stoner and Marquez, whereas Lorenzo prefers a smooth corner speed "style, like his old favorite rider Max Biaggi.
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I find the last answer by Dovi particularly interesting:
"CW: Do you carry your rear wheel in the air on the last part of the braking as we so often see Marquez do?A.D.: Yes, my style means that I am braking very hard right to the entry, and this means I often have the rear wheel off the track. But, again, this is a consequence of the bike you have. For example, with Yamaha, it is not easy to do that and not the best to use that style. With the Yamaha, when the rear comes down, the bike runs deep and wide and you lose time. With Ducati, it is also a bit like that, but with Honda, you can arrive like Marc arrives and control the slide when the rear comes down."
So, according to Dovi, Marquez is taking full advantage of the Honda's characteristics: he brakes very hard to deliberately lift the rear wheel off the ground, then he puts it down on a more external line, sliding the bike into the corner. That allows him faster corner entry, and the ability to close his line if he's going too deep into the corner. On a Yamaha, he'd probably do something different... Since the introduction of the 800cc and then also with the 1000cc, during the last few years with Lorenzo, the M1 has been developed as a corner speed machine that runs as if on rails. The 990cc Yamahas of the Rossi era (2004, 2005, 2006) were different, as Rossi prefers to point and shoot and slide the bike, same as Stoner and Marquez, whereas Lorenzo prefers a smooth corner speed "style, like his old favorite rider Max Biaggi.
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