Det finns säkert en bra förklaring varför Bridgestone inte tagit fram assymetriska framdäck till Sachsenring men det förklarar säkerligen en drös av alla lowsiders i högerkurvorna. Duccarna verkar inte gilla det, har inte alla deras krascher varit lowsiders i högerkurvor? Hayden har gjort två i omegan, Dovi och Iannone en var i kurva 11? Cruthlow gjorde väl också två lowsiders i högerkurvor, osäker på om bägge var i 11 eller om en var i första kurvan. Bradl gjorde en lowsider i högern i omegan. Det är väl bara Lorenzo typ som inte kraschat i en höger? Ja, förutom Schweitzaren som kraschade på rakan då
Sedan tycker jag det är kul med banor som är lite annorlunda, det är ju lite tråkigt att köra 18 rundor på Jerez.
Edit; här är förklaringen.
http://www.motomatters.com/analysis/2013/07/14/2013_sachsenring_motogp_round_up_pedrosa.html
There was much talk this evening of why there were so many crashes at the Sachsenring. One senior journalist asked most riders whether they thought it was the fault of the track that riders were crashing, and whether the fast right hander at Turn 11 should be slowed down. No, was the general consensus of riders. Yes, that corner could be dangerous, and yes, it is fast, but nobody really wants to see that corner altered. Apart from the topography of the surrounding area, making it almost impossible to reconfigure Turn 11, the corner itself is beloved, despite the many injuries which have been caused there. The turn is fast, and it is difficult, and getting it just right is one of the great pleasures of motorcycle racing.
A quicker fix, most people said, was to have an asymmetric front tire, to go with the asymmetric rear. This would give more grip in the right handers, the riders opined, and allow the Bridgestone tires to warm up quickly enough on the unused right side. Bridgestone are reluctant. Their asymmetric tires have different compounds on the left and right side. Rider feedback with asymmetric front tires in the past was not positive, all the riders complaining of a weird front end feel with different compounds on different sides. This creates a vagueness which the test riders were able to feel, and which they were not at all comfortable with.
Some riders had already used a Michelin dual compound tire, which they praised after all the crashes. That Michelin had the same compound on each side, plus a harder section in the middle, but this made for a much more stable construction. That in turn generated positive feedback for the riders, but it didn't solve the problem of tracks with lots of corners going in the same direction.
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