80 seconds done to death?
It seems not. Obviously time for a proper refresher course for yellow bellied Trippy and BB. That Blood was your poorest effort to date. You chose a passage from the article that didn't even mention the famous line?! Jerry said;
Which would Valentino be closer to?
“Difficult to say, without knowing where the weight is on the bike and how it behaves. But, without question, I don’t anticipate any major dramas. I can watch some of these lesser riders on the Ducatis and you can see that the bikes are, in my opinion, unsuitably set for what they want to try and do with them. I’m not saying anybody’s doing a bad job. I see these things wobbling around. When I think, clearly, if we had that issue with Valentino it’d be fixed in 80 seconds, but some riders don’t like the hardness of the bike, because they don’t get the feel. But then when they’re riding around and it’s too soft they’re not going forward either. So you’ve got to be able to create the feel with the hardness to avoid all that sloppiness. I don’t think there are any issues in the bike that are a big worry to me. I think the bike is just a tool to do your job. You sharpen the tool at the race track, you don’t build it. you should be able to adjust it to what Valentino wants. And until we’ve got a race or two under belts, we won’t really know how close we are or how much better we’ve made it. but if we can make it, as it stands here today, good for Valentino, then it’s probably not a bad bike. Then we just have to wait and see what happens.”
Boom there it all is. Completely unambiguous. Jerry was sitting there smugly stating he was completely confident there was nothing inherently wrong with the D16 and that every other rider / crew chief were just to simple to be able to set it up right. Burgesses problem was that in severely overrating his rider he overrated his own abilities too. Hubris eh Wosi, hubris. Nice to be reminded that Burgess thinks a race bike should be a nice stiff bit of kit - just as Stoner does.
80 seconds? Two years? Not ever would be more accurate, although Jerry's focus should have been on the actual problem - tuning his rider. Unlike setting up the D16 a truly impossible task though....
