Not a fan of Rossi i take it?
Rossi won 4 titles for Yamaha when they hadn't won for 13 years. How many did Biaggi and Checa win in motoGP?
Where was Furusawa when Rossi was winning titles on Aprilia and Honda? How many races did the other Yamaha motoGP riders win while Rossi was on Yamaha if it was all about the technician and not Rossi's ability?
Not a fanboi at all and think his holding the sport to ransom to force Dorna to give Bridgestone tyres to him alone was dispicable.Prior to 2004 Furusawa-san was languishing in the suspension deptment of Yamaha snowmobiles before taking over the M1 project. They won a few races prior to Rossi signing with Yamaha, 3 or so for Biaggi and 1 maybe 2 for Checa.I never said it was
ALL about the technician at all. Furusawa made the 4 valve head with the 90 deg flatplane crank when Yamaha's corporate ethos was welded to 5 valves and traditional 180 deg .Rossi's first test ride, Yamaha had several engine configurations for Rossi to try, he did 3 laps on Furusawa's baby and come and said "This is the engine I want, none of the others". As Furusawa explained last year that was vindication of what he had been saying all along about the M1.
Furthermore when Rossi was bleating about electronics and traction control kids ,
HIS M1 was the first bike equipped with
predictive electronics, ie the bike learned as it went around the track and adjusted the torque to the wheel for tyre wear as the race progressed. The M1 had that since 2006.
Lornezo won quite a few races on the Yamaha.......................