Luca Cadalora is a retired three-time World Champion. Now 56 years old, he has taken a step back from the MotoGP field, which he traveled as a valuable track coach to Valentino Rossi. An instructive and intense period from 2016 to 2018. The Italian therefore knows the Yamaha box very well, on which he has kept an eye. He takes stock of it as the season enters the second part of its calendar. And it sends fire!
If you like the cookie-cutter comments of Cal Crutchlow, then you will love the frankness of Luca Cadalora. If MotoGP is now out of sight for the Italian, it is not far from mind. And he has the arguments based on his experience to give us an informed opinion on the subject. Let's take the case of Yamaha , whom he knows well… “ From what I saw on television, in Brno on Monday, nothing has radically changed " coward Cadalora. " It also seems to me that they lack a real guide, a technical guide ».
It develops : " the Japanese are good, but the transfer of information from the track to the parent company is always tiring. It must be said that the 2019 bike suffers from acceleration. Unfortunately, in Austria it will be like in Brno. Yamaha lost a little, that’s the truth. ».
The machine having been evaluated, he comes to the pilots, with the same frankness… “ Of course you can't ask a forty year old pilot to do what he did until twenty » declares Luca on Valentino Rossi.
And who says 20 years, means Quarterly… “ He is a driver who can win every Sunday. He has a nice, smooth driving technique. It's not a physical style like Viñale'ss”. He adds about the latter that it is difficult to define. He still doesn't understand what he is as a pilot. “ There are times when he is really strong, very strong, but who knows if he knows it himself while driving "...
