According to Herve Poncharal, former team leader, Ben Spies has the technical skills to develop the Yamaha and maintain as leading in MotoGP.
This is the statement of Poncharal cited by MCN when Spies has moved to the Yamaha factory team for 2011, suggesting that the American pilot will have a much greater role developing the YZR-M1.
Yamaha lost the contribution of the Italian Grand Prix Valentino Rossi at the end of last season when he opted to move to the Ducati factory team. The former head of Yamaha, ensures the Japanese brand and current world champion of the Jorge Lorenzo must demonstrate development skills by 2012 with the introduction of the new 1000cc for four-stroke category.
And Masao Furusawa confirmed to MCN in Sepang at the beginning of this month that the Yamaha 2012 draft project already it is in the Japan test track.
I think Ben feel many things, technically speaking." "He is very methodical and never enters the garage if you had a bad beat and launches his helmet or gets angry," Poncharal is cited by MCN.
"He just sits and explains very calmly what is happening and as Mr Furusawa mentioned earlier, is very good to explain what is happening, what he feels and what should be done to make the bike go faster," he explained.
"It is clear that I believe this profile help Yamaha to work well and develop a good machine." "I'm not saying that it will be better than Valentino but Ben already knows enough to be able to assist in the development of the motorcycle".
