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MOTOGP: Noyes’ Notebook: Anatomy Of An Overtaking, Pt. II
In Pt. II we hear from five 500 World Champions -- Kenny Roberts, Wayne Rainey, Kevin Schwantz, Kenny Roberts Junior, and Wayne Gardner -- regarding 'The Pass'.
Part II: “The Pass” from a 500 World Champion’s Point of View
In Part I when I mentioned previously unseen footage of the coming together of Marco Simoncelli and Dani Pedrosa at Turn 7 on lap 18 of the French Grand Prix at Le Mans, I was referring to the additional shots and slow-motion replays that were seen repeatedly by viewers in Europe, and most especially in Spain and Italy, but not seen on the live broadcast shown here in the United States.
Dorna, in order to give a wider viewership access to key footage, has placed a video clip titled MotoGP Rewind: Le Mans as a free video on the MotoGP website. If you want to have a look at different angles of the same event you can do it by clicking here.
The rear-facing on-bike camera from Marco Simoncelli's bike shows contact between Simoncelli's upper left leg (there were black tire marks on his leathers) and Pedrosa's front tire. Studying images from 2m34 to 2m57 and then going to the clip at the top of this article and looking from 2m26 to 2m47 gives added perspective. Looking at the clip above, it seems that, contrary to the impression from the on-bike footage, Simoncelli did get in front of Pedrosa and the contact came when Pedrosa lifted the bike (probably instinctively) in an unsuccessful attempt to avoid contact.
The actual timing of the TV footage is vital. The broadcast feed makes it clear that contact came after Simoncelli had gotten most of his bike past Pedrosa´s bike, but the on-bike rear-facing camera shot was enough to establish for Race Direction that Simoncelli chopped across and took Pedrosa´s line, leaving him nowhere to go.
In the remarks that follow from five 500 World Champions (Kenny Roberts, Wayne Rainey, Kevin Schwantz, Kenny Roberts Junior and Wayne Gardner) all agreed that Dani would have come out 'better' if he had not stood the bike up. Kevin believes that Dani could have made the corner if he had held his line. Roberts Senior and Rainey both believe that Dani should have held his line, but that that would only have been 'better' (for Dani) because then both riders would have crashed. Kenny Roberts Junior introduced the term 'target fixation' and recalls a time that he held his line in a similar encounter with another rider (Alex Barros) and managed to stay on while the rider on the outside went down. And Wayne Gardner believes that Simoncelli, by turning in on top of Dani, left him no choice but to pick up.
In Part I when I mentioned previously unseen footage of the coming together of Marco Simoncelli and Dani Pedrosa at Turn 7 on lap 18 of the French Grand Prix at Le Mans, I was referring to the additional shots and slow-motion replays that were seen repeatedly by viewers in Europe, and most especially in Spain and Italy, but not seen on the live broadcast shown here in the United States.
Dorna, in order to give a wider viewership access to key footage, has placed a video clip titled MotoGP Rewind: Le Mans as a free video on the MotoGP website. If you want to have a look at different angles of the same event you can do it by clicking here.
The rear-facing on-bike camera from Marco Simoncelli's bike shows contact between Simoncelli's upper left leg (there were black tire marks on his leathers) and Pedrosa's front tire. Studying images from 2m34 to 2m57 and then going to the clip at the top of this article and looking from 2m26 to 2m47 gives added perspective. Looking at the clip above, it seems that, contrary to the impression from the on-bike footage, Simoncelli did get in front of Pedrosa and the contact came when Pedrosa lifted the bike (probably instinctively) in an unsuccessful attempt to avoid contact.
The actual timing of the TV footage is vital. The broadcast feed makes it clear that contact came after Simoncelli had gotten most of his bike past Pedrosa´s bike, but the on-bike rear-facing camera shot was enough to establish for Race Direction that Simoncelli chopped across and took Pedrosa´s line, leaving him nowhere to go.
In the remarks that follow from five 500 World Champions (Kenny Roberts, Wayne Rainey, Kevin Schwantz, Kenny Roberts Junior and Wayne Gardner) all agreed that Dani would have come out 'better' if he had not stood the bike up. Kevin believes that Dani could have made the corner if he had held his line. Roberts Senior and Rainey both believe that Dani should have held his line, but that that would only have been 'better' (for Dani) because then both riders would have crashed. Kenny Roberts Junior introduced the term 'target fixation' and recalls a time that he held his line in a similar encounter with another rider (Alex Barros) and managed to stay on while the rider on the outside went down. And Wayne Gardner believes that Simoncelli, by turning in on top of Dani, left him no choice but to pick up.
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