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I can't see him returning to the works Yamaha Team to race unless someone gets injured and he stands in for a race or two .
I think that his talents would have been more useful to Ducati because of the problems with turning that they suffer with are the areas that Jorge excels in whereas the Yamaha doesn't appear to have any problems in that area . Maybe thats why Yamaha have signed him up so Ducati can't.

Seeing as how he was pretty much the slowest ride on track last year, I’m not sure of the logic of having him as a test rider.

duke63 wrote:Seeing as how he was pretty much the slowest ride on track last year, I’m not sure of the logic of having him as a test rider.

The thing is though Duke, you find a test rider who can consistently run at the sharp end of motogp, he is no longer a test rider he is a motogp rider or just about to become one anyway.

Like Casey Stoner?

i Would guess the best attribute of a test rider is to be able to feel and explain how changes reflect the bike.

I cannot remember who it was (tho it may have been Foggy) but there was one rider who admitted himself that he didn’t have a clue how changes effected the bike but he knew how to win races.

Joey Dunlop was one of those. There was a tale doing the round about him complaining that the suspension was too soft. After 3 total resets and new set ups one of the mechanics clocked he meant it was too hard.

Kwacky wrote:Like Casey Stoner?

He has always been the exception to the rule book, you know that