In his fourth year at Yamaha, Rossi still did not win the championship this year because the motogp competition system has undergone great changes this year.

Officially, the displacement of racing cars has been reduced from 1000cc to 800cc. This move has ushered in the era of 800cc displacement for all motogp factory cars.

The reason for lowering the displacement is mainly to suppress Bentian.

Bentian was too strong back then. Although there was Rossi, almost all the front row drivers were Bentian. Last year's championship driver was also Bentian.

Almost all the front riders in the entire field are stupid.

Other teams even experienced being trapped, so this rule was introduced.

Qin Chuan touched his chin. To be honest, he was not surprised at all by this change.

In this event, it is said that there is a gap in the performance of the cars, but in fact the gap is very small. It is just the drivers who magnify the gap. Even among commercially available cars, there is a slight gap.

What maintains this small gap in motogp is the competition committee behind it, which controls the competition to achieve a balance as much as possible.

When a car is enough to dominate an era, the competition will step in and suppress the car. The same is true for Ducati today.

Qin Chuan heard that Ducati has been restricted by the competition in several black technologies. You must know that Ducati has only been dominant for two years.

Last year plus this year, the winner the year before was still the R series.

The Bentian five-cylinder magic bike that year dominated GP for a full six years, and its power was far beyond that of Ducati. Even the second echelon was about to fall apart.

800cc, requiring four cylinders, which means that each factory team needs to re-develop racing cars.

This year, Stoner, who couldn't adapt to racing in Bentian, made a game-breaking decision, which was to transfer to Ducati.

This is not the Ducati of today, but the Ducati of yesteryear.

Ducati?

Qin Chuan had no impression of Ducati at that time, so he asked Jiang Yue to wait and searched online.

At that time, Ducati was a team with no presence in GP, ​​accompanying them all the way and not winning any championships.

This is why when new fans say that today’s GP is Ducati GP, old fans don’t have much reaction, because old fans have witnessed with their own eyes how weak Ducati was back then.

No wins in a hundred games, this sentence has never been said to Ducati.

So when Stoner came to Ducati, the news media at the time thought he was crazy. This was the same as when Rossi wanted to transfer. From Bentian to Ducati, it was much worse than when Rossi went to Ducati. Yamaha is even more ruthless.

It is worth mentioning that the Kawasaki team was also present during this period. Kawasaki participated in GP for a total of eight years, and this year was the year before it withdrew.

The person who was lapped by the rc211v at that time was Kawasaki's factory car ninjizx-rr at the time.

It was precisely because Kawasaki was taking the back seat that Ducati did not sit firmly in the bottom line.

In addition, after that year, Ducati also had a name, called the legendary crusher.

To put it simply and concisely, whoever goes will be finished! But this is all for later.

In Stoner's first year at Ducati, with the help of God, surprisingly, his special and wild driving style fit perfectly with the Ducati factory GP7 at the time (Ducati factory The number on the car represents the year, everyone knows it, refer to gp23) The combination of the two is very fast.

Bentian's competitiveness was greatly weakened. That year, Stoner seemed to have a divine help. He almost didn't get off the podium throughout the year. Halfway through the race, Stoner showed the appearance of a champion.

The only person who can put pressure on Stoner besides Rossi is Pedrosa, who is also a rookie next door. This year, Pedrosa also showed amazing talent and clung to Stoner all the way.

The two newcomers lead the first and second places in the standings, while Rossi retired six times last year and broke his hand and ankle. Old injuries and the always-problematic Yamaha ranked only third. This is also why Rossi It was a rare year when the Western Conference was at its peak.

In the last few stops of the schedule, with Rossi withdrawing, the final championship battle of the year began between Pedrosa and Stoner.

But as we all know, Pedrosa's luck has not been very good since he was promoted to GP. His short stature can increase his speed, but it can also become his drawback. Because of his crash, Stoner won the championship early and won world champion.

Stoner, the world champion, broke the thirty-year dominance of the R system in MotoGP and was also Ducati's first world champion in history.

Until now, Ducati has only two world championships, and the second one was won by Peco last year.

Stoner's championship is extremely valuable.

At the end of the year, after two consecutive losses, the outside world had a different voice towards Rossi. Many news media felt that Rossi should retire at the highlight moment.

So the next year, Rossi exploded.

This year's championship contenders are still these three, with Stoner driving GP8 and Pedrosa still staying in Bentian.

This is the year that Pedrosa has the best chance to win the championship, because his condition is even better than Rossi.

From the very beginning of the race, Pedrosa led the standings and topped the list. However, just halfway through the schedule, this legend who had been forgotten by Lady Luck in his career encountered another accident.

A crash during the snowbang test race caused Pedrosa to fracture the metacarpal bone of his right hand and miss the game.

At the next W country station, I crashed again. This time I not only broke the fingers on my right hand, but also broke the entire right palm.

After two major crashes, he lost the opportunity to compete for the championship. This year's championship was won by Rossi.

It is worth mentioning that Rossi's teammate this year is not an ordinary person, but Lorenzo, who has just been promoted to GP and is also one of the five future legends. This year is Lorenzo's first year in GP.

The four legends have officially come together.

This robot also won the world championship after Pedrosa left the lower category and moved to the highest category. However, his first year in the highest category was not easy for him.

This year Lorenzo underestimated the cruelty of the top level and the importance of adjusting the car well.

Although I was driving this car that Rossi and Yamaha had adjusted, I fell down seven times in three months. I even broke both my legs and ankles at the Shanghai Metro Station, with one bone cracked and the other fractured. It was terrible.

Another year passed, and this year Stoner rode on a new Ducati racing car, codenamed gp9, to compete again. This year, there was one more championship contender, and that was Lorenzo.

After last year's defeat, Lorenzo hung up a new number, No. 99, and officially started playing.

Qin Chuan now understands that romantic legends all have one thing in common, that is, they are extremely adaptable.

Almost all of them will compete for the world championship in the second year after entering the highest category. The five legends are no exception. Rossi and Ma Wang even started in the first year.

This year, robots exploded!

Originally, the competition for the championship, runner-up and third place had always been between Rossi, Pedrosa and Stoner, but this year Lorenzo was added.

At the beginning of the season, Lorenzo's buttery smooth cornering left a deep impression on the audience. This year, Lorenzo defeated Stoner Pedrosa with extremely strong competitiveness. There were many back and forths, and finally won the world runner-up.

Winning the world runner-up in the second year is enough to show the strength of the robot that year. As for the champion that year, Rossi was.

This year, Rossi defeated Lorenzo by 46 points and won the world championship, becoming the nine-time champion.

Rossi was less than thirty years old at the time.

After Rossi won his ninth world championship, fans' calls for ten championships became louder and louder, but a major event happened in the next year that would affect Rossi's subsequent career.

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