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Cycle News 2014 Issue 49 December 9

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VOL. 51 ISSUE 49 DECEMBER 9, 2014 P77 next June. Jarvis felt that in addition to performance level objectives, it needed to be safe and easy to operate. "The important point, I think, is to arrive with software that meets the objectives of; firstly, having a performance level that is, should I say, more common amongst all the participants is the goal," Jar- vis said. "But also it needs to be something that's easy to operate. "Because right now we could give to many teams our software, but the people in those teams would be totally lost, because the amount of parameters, the amount of changes you can do are too much. So I think it needs to be easy to operate for ev- erybody, and the other thing is safety. One of the things that our company I know is very, very hot on with development of software is that we insist on everything being fail-safe. It's very impor- tant that it needs to be tested thoroughly. It's better to have a software that's a little bit less per- formance, but is safe and easy to operate." Suppo said, "At least it should be Andrea Dovizioso's sophomore season with the factory Ducati fared much better than 2013 as Ducati was able to close the gap.

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