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You mean explaining the terms?
Corner speed style = look at Lorenzo and Yamaha riders in general: they smooth down the entering and exit phase keeping a more consistent speed through the entire corner, staying at high lean angles longer.
Point and shoot style = look at Pedrosa and most Honda riders: they brake deeper into the corner, "pointing" at the apex directly, then as soon as possible lift the bike up sharply and open the throttle hard, "shooting" out of the corner. They stay at high lean angles less time.
Of course it also depends on tracks and corner characteristics: there are corners in which all riders have to exploit corner speed to be fast, others in which they all try to "point and shoot" because it's more effective. That determines which tracks/ corners are more favorable to Honda or to Yamaha, as Yamaha is the "corner speed" machine while Honda with its exrtaordinary braking efficiency and strong acceleration is the obvious "point and shoot" machine.
Ducati would also be a point and shoot kind of bike, but the understeer problem obliges it to stay longer at higher lean angles and so it cannot exploit fully one of its traditional strong points, which is acceleration.
Point and shoot was the mandatory style with the old 500cc 2-strokers, (and then it was applied in a very visible way); corner speed was the equally mandatory style for 250cc and the lower classes in general, because they did not have enough power to accelerate as strongly as needed out of corners if using the point and shoot technique.
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Corner speed style = look at Lorenzo and Yamaha riders in general: they smooth down the entering and exit phase keeping a more consistent speed through the entire corner, staying at high lean angles longer.
Point and shoot style = look at Pedrosa and most Honda riders: they brake deeper into the corner, "pointing" at the apex directly, then as soon as possible lift the bike up sharply and open the throttle hard, "shooting" out of the corner. They stay at high lean angles less time.
Of course it also depends on tracks and corner characteristics: there are corners in which all riders have to exploit corner speed to be fast, others in which they all try to "point and shoot" because it's more effective. That determines which tracks/ corners are more favorable to Honda or to Yamaha, as Yamaha is the "corner speed" machine while Honda with its exrtaordinary braking efficiency and strong acceleration is the obvious "point and shoot" machine.
Ducati would also be a point and shoot kind of bike, but the understeer problem obliges it to stay longer at higher lean angles and so it cannot exploit fully one of its traditional strong points, which is acceleration.
Point and shoot was the mandatory style with the old 500cc 2-strokers, (and then it was applied in a very visible way); corner speed was the equally mandatory style for 250cc and the lower classes in general, because they did not have enough power to accelerate as strongly as needed out of corners if using the point and shoot technique.
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