VOL. 52 ISSUE 28 JULY 18, 2015 P69
Briefly...
One winglet good, two winglets
better? Ducati's stubby fairing-flank
aerodynes took a step towards be-
ing biplanes at the Sachsenring, with
a redesign adding enlarged arcuate
teardrop sideplates, and a second-
ary wing behind the first. As before,
"they are to reduce the problem of
wheelies," said team chief Paolo
Ciabatti—an eventuality made more
likely by the short gearing used at
the shortest track of the year.
Tito Rabat is the only Moto2 cham-
pion to stay on to defend his title.
But even before he was taken out of
the race on the last corner the so-far
luckless Spaniard suffered another
blow to his hopes, breaking his right
collarbone in five places in a heavy
testing crash the previous Saturday.
It was repaired with a titanium plate,
along with an extensive skin graft
to his right arm, and he came back
nothing daunted to race—only to
he could still win.
Rossi concurred. The main
fight was with his teammate
Jorge, and it would be "very
hard. But we must not make the
stupid mistake to forget Marc."
Whence came the Honda
turnaround? Partly, for Marquez,
when he switched back to last
year's chassis at the previous
round, and rediscovered some
shaken confidence in his riding
style; partly for both the nature
of this circuit, with many slow
corners. Marquez identified
problem corners as "where you
go in fast and need to keep the
speed," where they had prob-
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