A question of body position

[steveyb]

Still waiting on your cheque!



But cereal, good on you. Now, just find that coach to make the next steps and to verify that you are going down the right paths.


It was asked in an earlier post, something like, How does Marquez do it, or change line or something like that anyway.
I was watching Jerez the other day and watching the close-ups with the highspeed camera of him. The last turn was the most demonstrating.
He was entering the corner in a sideways fashion, which is a function of TALENT, chassis design (apparently the Yamaha M1 does not take kindly to being thrown sideways like that), TALENT, slipper clutch, TALENT, rear brake (I see he has been testing a larger disc and caliper on the rear) and practice.
Then transferring as quickly as possible into the turn (quick turn corner, cheers CSS) and getting leaned over as far as possible by making himself a part of the bike.
Riders who sit on the top of the bike and thrust their bodies out from the bike create all sorts of undesirable lever moments and poor centres of gravity.
But the best part was watching him adjust position and change the line whilst at 50+ degrees of lean. It was so subtle but because of his zen with the machine he was able to do it.
I think that is one of the issues slowing the others down. They are not zen with their machines in the way that MM is. As I have mentioned previously, he simply believes that his machine will do what he wants, when he wants, how he wants and just goes and does it.
That is the art of confidence.
A smattering of SKILL and TALENT help to build that confidence, but all of the top 5 or 6 riders have those things. What they are lacking is the confidence to push that extra 0.25% from Go to Whoa.
Just look at him on the bike, he is at one with his machine. He might as well be Borg. 1of18 perhaps?

[cowpoos]

Each corner is different

yup...except on the next lap.