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I saw some missed apex's and a weird end through grass. But the bike is certainly magnificent :D
 
1299rFE said:
I'm pretty sure he would make me look stupid on a track
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That was a serious lap for probably first time out on something that is for sure quite unique to ride. It certainly looks the business and the sound is sweet.
 
Yeah, it sounds good - better than inline 4 but I don't think so over the Duc V2. How many of you like it over the V2?
 
SuperDuc29 said:
Yeah, it sounds good - better than inline 4 but I don't think so over the Duc V2. How many of you like it over the V2?
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I'm a V2 nut and am planning on keeping mine forever it's that good and the sound to me with the full exhaust, I just can't get enough. But this V4R is on another level of unique sounds, a lot of non DUC people will jump onboard the new range for sure, bloody shame there goes the exclusive Ducati ownership trip.
 
Alessandro Valia was within 4 seconds of Chaz Davies time on a bone stock V4R with road tyres. He felt he could go a second quicker on slicks, so 3 seconds separating a road bike from a WSBK spec machine is pretty impressive for a bike with a licence plate and lights.
 
topolino said:
Alessandro Valia was within 4 seconds of Chaz Davies time on a bone stock V4R with road tyres.
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That only shows how slow Chaz's time was... What was the gap to JR? Anyway, we are talking test times and should not compare V4R in road trim with a test rider to V4R WSBK spec with WSBK rider.
 
Snk1199 said:
That only shows how slow Chaz's time was... What was the gap to JR? Anyway, we are talking test times and should not compare V4R in road trim with a test rider to V4R WSBK spec with WSBK rider.
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The point I was illustrating was that regardless of the event (bear in mind this was ostensibly the official press launch for the V4R and not a WSBK test as that was at Aragon last month), for a road bike to be within 4 seconds of a WSBK version of the same machine (albeit with a faster rider and a lot more power available) is still remarkable. If you remember back to the launch of the V4, Valia was only a few seconds off Jorge Lorenzo's lap record on an S model. He is not exactly slow. If you want to know, Davies was 1.5 seconds slower than Rea at Aragon, but the R is still in development and shakedown testing, so this gap will doubtless reduce.
 
I think Alvaro Bautista will finish ahead of Davies consistently and prove that ducati has been wasting its time on the Chaz. I think the past Ducati was a better bike than the Kawasaki , but IMO Johhny Rea is a friggin god compared to the rest of the field

thats just my opinion . so hold back the redass
 
JR does seem like he is on a Sunday ride lol. I think Chaz is good and hoping that both he and Alvaro do well next season. It would be great to see some close racing.
 
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Redding seems to be having fun with his:

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Snk1199 said:
That only shows how slow Chaz's time was... What was the gap to JR? Anyway, we are talking test times and should not compare V4R in road trim with a test rider to V4R WSBK spec with WSBK rider.
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Here were the final test times:

No Rider Bike Fastest Diff
1 Jonathan Rea Kawasaki ZX-10R 01:38.7
22 Alex Lowes Yamaha YZF-R1M 01:39.4 0.664
91 Leon Haslam Kawasaki ZX-10R 01:39.8 1.053
19 Alvaro Bautista Ducati Panigale V4R 01:39.8 1.132
7 Chaz Davies Ducati Panigale V4R 01:39.9 1.139
60 Michael vd Mark Yamaha YZF-R1M 01:40.1 1.379
33 Marco Melandri Yamaha YZF-R1M 01:40.2 1.522
11 Sandro Cortese Yamaha YZF-R1M 01:40.6 1.879


I would imagine this looks pretty good to the Ducati Corse team to be 1 sec. off the best-sorted bike on the grid, with both riders. And the test rider on a street bike running 4 secs slower than the factory riders on their test bikes isn't bad.
 
In fact, I was familiar with the lap times The point I wanted to make was that testing will not necessarily reveal full potential. For what it is worth last year Sykes did almost identical lap to Rea's this year. And honestly, a 4 sec gap between WSBK no 1 (4 years now) and a test rider on a road bike sounds too good to be realistic. Don't get me wrong, I keep my fingers crossed for Ducati! But I don't see much more to be optimistic based on end of season test resilts than in any previous years. Forza Ducati!
 

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