Sylvain Guintoli - Q&A
6 August 2013
"We had [Casey Stoner's] data available and I remember thinking 'F**king hell, this guy is entering every corner like he doesn't want to get out'" - Sylvain Guintoli.
Crash.net:
Can you put your finger on what makes the Ducati Desmosedici so difficult? Sylvain Guintoli: If I knew, I'd probably still be there. In short, I don't know. I'm not the only one who broke his arse on that bike. It's a very different bike in many ways and at the time it was also different to the one they're using now, we were using the tubular frame. It's a bike I enjoyed riding but it just wasn't fast. To this day there was only one rider who could make the bloody thing work. Some people say the front end is vague but if you look at how Casey was using it, you could say there was no massive problem with the bike because he could do it. He's not a bloody magician, he just understood it. Either he was more clever or more brave, whatever, he was permanently 'on it' on that bike. We had his data available to us and I remember looking at it and thinking ''F**king hell, this guy is entering every corner like he doesn't want to get out'. He was doing things on the bike that you wouldn't normally do.
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