This is a thread to generally discuss traction control.
Hudsonhawk initially posted this which sparked my interest. HH asked about KC, but also generally about motogp going down the same path as F1.
I find it hard to come to terms with how Casey Stoner has gone from one season of not being able to stay upright, to the next year of winning the world title. He couldnt say upright in the 125's or the 250's....nor could he win a title. Do the following links shed some light on how he won the title and is MOTOGP heading down the path of F1? http://www.crash.net/motorsport/moto...an_my_250.html http://www.crash.net/motorsport/moto...her_speed.html
This is from crash.net (And the first link that's above), with title along the lines of, my 250 was harder to ride than this!
The Italian has been rewarded for his loyalty to Hondain the quarter-litre class, where he has finished second to Aprilia's Jorge Lorenzo for the past two seasons, with a MotoGPride for 2008 - and Team Scot has merged with JiR to help make it happen. 'Dovi' and JiR Team Scot thus completed their first 48 laps at Valencia on Tuesday afternoon, where the 21-year-old set the 14th fastest lap time - 2.4secs behind MotoGP world champion Casey Stoner - but claimed his only difficultly was getting used to the engine braking. "I found the RC212V easier to ride than my 250, the electronics control things very well," declared the Italian. "The power is good but there's not too much like the older 990cc bike, which I tried back in 2004. People ask about the difference between the 250 and the 800. The biggest thing is the completely different way the power comes in: with the 250 the power is high in the rev-range, with the 800 there is power everywhere. "The electronics make a big difference. On every corner I can fully open the throttle and the traction control handles it – even on a bike with more than 100bhp more than my 250! If I did that on a 250 I would go flying in the air and it would hurt!" he smiled. "I think that the electronics can be both good and bad, as sometimes I would like a bike that I could powerslide and perhaps one that would be a little more difficult to ride. The only difficulty I had today was coping with the engine braking system, the feeling is so much different to my 250cc two-stroke. "Maybe tomorrow we will see if we start to change things. This is the start of a new adventure for me and I'm looking forward to the challenge of taking on the world's best riders in MotoGP next year," he concluded. Today is the first day with a new machine for Andrea and it was quite positive I think," declared team director Gianluca Montiron. "If we compare the times Shinya Nakano was doing on this bike on Friday – 1min 34.5secs – Andrea was doing a 1min 34.7secs after just half a day on the bike, which is very impressive. What was also very positive today were his clear comments and feedback about the machine and how he felt on it. This is of vital importance to our team and to our partners such as Michelin and HRC."
And the second link is Colin Edwards saying why he thinks Schumacher got such a respectable lap time.
By Peter McLaren Colin Edwards has explained how he believes it was possible for former seven-times F1world champion Michael Schumacherto ride a MotoGPbike just five seconds off the Valencia lap record. Schumacher set his stunning time during the press and guest day immediately after the season-ending grand prix - and despite only limited sportbike experience. The test was also the German legend's first on an 800cc Ducatiand just his second ever MotoGP ride. The former Ferrariace first sampled MotoGP power during a private test at Mugello in 2005, when he had lapped a much more sedate 15 seconds off the pace on a 990cc Desmosedici, so has the move to 800cc engines and increased reliance on electronics made the new-breed of machines too easy to ride? Andrea Dovizioso certainly fuelled that debate after his own MotoGP debut at Valencia, by stating that his 250 was harder to control, but Edwards warned that it suddenly gets much harder as you approach the limit. "These bikes are so advanced now - all you need to do is crank the electronics up to where you can't crash and you can go five seconds off the pace pretty easily. You just get in and nail it!" Edwards told Crash.net, when asked about Schumacher's lap time. "But to find that last, four tenths say, you have to back the electronics off and really start to work it. It's like a gamble; play safe with the electronics and you'll be too slow. If everybody had the electronics turned up all the time then we would all be doing the same lap time. "You have to tailor-make the electronics to suit your style," Colin revealed. "What Valentino [Rossi] uses, I don't use and what I use maybe James [Toseland] doesn't use. Every rider has his own tailor-made electronics for what he likes; how he wants it to spin, how he wants it to move. That's where the last few tenths are."