New Guy Here Needing Honest Feedback About The Details Of A Panigale.

First, thanks for your help. Secondly, I'll try to keep this short. I know your time is valuable.

I just want honest feedback if possible. Oh, and I'm not trying to pitch you either; not yet anyway. I'm respecting the rules of the forum until I pay the cost. If this rubs the rules the wrong way, please, let me know.

I'm 50,097 words into the trilogy of my novel series, and the main character ride a Panigale V4. Below is a short excerpt from the first book. Can you tell me if this feels close enough to reality, and does it pique your interest?

BTW, there will be movies based on my novels in the future. Just a heads up. And, again, thanks in advance.

Considering its a race you should throw in a bit about the rider using launch control. If you search "panigale v4 launch control" on YouTube you should get a very good idea how it works and what its like to takeoff using it.

"positioned himself for aggressive riding" seems a little hollow. There's a lot to that, that could be interesting on levels of character building, color and realism.
"could feel more grip building in his tires..." also a bit hollow. I would rather see it than be told about it. What's going on? I want to see the race.
The 2022 V4 has a display that lights up the electronic assistance that is being activated in real-time. eg. if you have cold tires and you throw it into a corner and hit the gas hard, you'll either get spinning wheels and a big sideways slide or your electronics saving your ass lighting up "Slide Control" on the dash, which is going to slow you down. As you gain traction electronics gives you more power. In RACE mode, such as in your story, you usually have a lot of that turned off. So you might have smoking tires and a little drifting instead of good traction.
Any - what's the story? Only a bone head would go race a car with cold tires. I'm sure there's a reason for the event. It could be helpful to understand what's going on, who this guys is.
There are 888 threads on this forum about the character of the pilot illustrated by how they use or don't use the "electronic rider assists" and how they set up RACE mode etc.
Motorcycles are indeed still magical creatures that are not completely understood by most mortals not even by their creators entirely. Most film makers get them laughably wrong though some get away with it because it's a bit sci-fi like the Matrix Ducati scene. Even though most people can't discern between truly great riding techniques and pretty good, most people have a sense of physics and can feel if something is real or really dumb like Batman's motorcycle with enormous cylindrical hyper-car tires that also lean onto an edge and make 90 degree turns full throttle. Ok, it's Batman but it's freaking stupid impossible design.
I'd love to see a really good race.

@Vbreeze, great observations, and I can tell you've had plenty of knee on deck in race mode - probably an elbow too.

The excerpt that I posted is from my very first novel, and I wasn't a writer, per se, until this book was published back in 2019. I'm actually an engineer with a passion for the culture and sport as you may be able to tell form my avatar. Two years plus some later, and I believe my writing and skill has greatly improved from critic's feedback. Details about the TFT lighting up and reflecting its dance moves off of the rider's visor can be located in earlier parts of the book where the characters and their personalities are introduced to readers. There's also some visuals in latter chapters as well.

If you want to know a little more, searching Six Gears on Google is very rewarding. Reading the synopsis and actual readers' reviews on my company's website is ever more rewarding. I'm trying not step over the rules until I pay the proper toll required.

Thanks for the feedback; seriously.



Edit: You'd love chapter eleven of the sequel. You wanna (want to) talk about show, not tell. It's at a track, and IMO, it hits right. I prefer to hear reader's reviews, nevertheless. My opinion is biased.