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- Maco
Posted by Eric on June 2, 2009, 6:51 am
75.62.151.231Maco Moto never fell during the race, just a fuel problem, just so everyone knows - Re: Maco
Posted by Mike's Diary
on June 2, 2009, 8:25 am, in reply to "Maco"
82.32.49.199They also had a small problem which resulted in a quickshifter change and cost about 5 mins in the pit. - Re: Maco
Posted by burn(t) the cook
on June 2, 2009, 10:54 am, in reply to "Re: Maco"
91.5.97.203+ another additional stop to refuel because the refuelling after changing the quickshifter went horribly wrong due to a malfunctioning fueltinvalve (<-guessed on the sight of a massive fuelspill) - Re: Maco
Posted by Rosie on June 2, 2009, 12:17 pm, in reply to "Re: Maco"
81.155.194.138What happened ?? In a safe and secure 2nd place after 4 hours the bike developed a fault which showed itself as a large loss of power when changing (shifting) gear. Andi Mecklau was "only" losing a couple of seconds a lap but motorbikes rarely cure themselves. In the heat of an unscheduled stop where you have seconds to diagnose the fault, shifter and shifting was used a lot in the conversation. Remember we are a truly international team with, Slovak, Austrian, English, Danish and Spanish languages in the garage. The shifter was changed, but the fault remained. With time to reflect and talk to Andi, we then correctly diagnosed low fuel pressure as the cause of the fault so within 10 minutes we were back in the box for a tank change.
There was no "additional" fuel stop but after dumping into the new tank the "air out" valve failed to seal properly, hence the litre or so in pit lane.
So the problem was fuel or fuel pump related, the same as Bolligers problem. - Re: Maco
Posted by burn(t) the cook on June 2, 2009, 2:17 pm, in reply to "Re: Maco"
91.5.97.203Thank you for clearing this up Rosie! - Re: Maco
Posted by steve
on June 2, 2009, 3:34 pm, in reply to "Re: Maco"
85.2.197.15for all there is no such thing as safe and secure in second place or any place for that matter until that flag drops at the end
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