Cuma rider jalanan yang pingin belok miring banget ala Marquez, kalau rider MotoGP beneran enggak

Selama ini populer banget usaha untuk menikung supaya sikunya bisa menyentuh aspal. Katanya sih itu meniru Marc Marquez. Padahal kalau dari pembalap MotoGP sendiri sepertinya menganggap hal itu adalah hal yang bodoh. Mereka kalau nggak kepepet nggak akan melakukannya, karena ada kelemahan yang fatal bila melakukan itu:

Ini terungkap dari kejadian yang dialami Jack Miller ketika joknya bermasalah.
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Kalau cuma baca judul mungkin terkesan bahwa jok lepas itu yang bikin berhenti balapan. Padahal sebenarnya enggak. Miller berhenti itu ada hubungannya dengan menikung miring banget:

The problem was I wasn’t able to enter the corners, I would go in but my butt would slide to the outside of the seat rather than gripping so I wasn’t able to get my shoulders out so I had to sit very centrally on the bike and use a lot of lean angle. Doing that I destroyed the edge of the front tyre and I started to get a lot of understeer, especially in the fast corners, then a lot of chatter and a lot of understeer just because I was using 60 degrees lean angle when you normally use 47 degrees.

Karena jok rusak dan ia lepas, maka tempat duduknya jadi sangat licin. Ia jadinya nggak bisa melakukan leaning dengan baik. Ia terpaksa harus duduk dengan tegak. Dan ini membuat ia terpaksa menikung dengan kemiringan 60 derajat padahal biasanya ia pakai 47 derajat. Sebagai akibatnya ban depan jadi cepat habis karena pinggiran ban jadi tergerus.

Jadi jelas walau mungkin terlihat keren, manuver itu nggak sering dilakukan oleh pembalap MotoGP karena ban akan jadi cepat habis.

 

Di balapan di Qatar terlihat bahwa Marquez merupakan pembalap yang beloknya yang paling miring. Ia juga sadar akan konsekuensinya sehingga ia ingin pakai ban hard. Tapi nggak bisa karena cuaca yang dingin:
Marc Marquez says new, more powerful Honda engine was key to battling for victory despite struggling with his front tyre in Qatar.

But like we saw, in the first day here the hard-front tyre worked very good because the temperature was higher. But yesterday and today was very cold and I was not able to use the hard front tyre. He was braking late and with the medium tyre I was not able to stop the bike like I like.

Sebelumnya Marquez sempat mencatat rekor kemiringan 66 derajat, tapi itu bukan karena memang punya niatan untuk itu tapi sebagai akibat motor yang setelannya nggak enak:
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“I was struggling a lot with the front tyre,” he conceded, while revealing one of those moments to which Miller referred came while leant over at 66 degrees – two more than the infamous save he caught on his left knee at Valencia last November.

“It’s true, I was struggling, Then I put the hard [front in] and it was slightly better, but even like this I was struggling and we need to find the setup. But yes, when he was behind me, I checked on the data, I was at 66 degrees of lean angle, so even more than Valencia, but I was able to recover that crash. Of course, when you have that problem, it’s not the good way, but in the end, that’s my riding style.”

 

Selain itu membelok dengan gaya sangat miring juga tidak membuat Marquez menikung dengan lebih cepat. Karena yang ditakuti oleh Dovizioso justru Alex Rins:
Andrea Dovizioso explains why he was so keen to prevent Alex Rins leading during Sunday’s Qatar MotoGP season-opener, adds that the GSX-RR had embarrassingly good corner speed.

“I mean, his bike I think is completely the opposite of my bike. I can accelerate so strong, I can be very fast in the straight but in the middle of the corner I’m struggling a lot. The corner speed they carry is phenomenal. And it means if our bike doesn’t go around the corner as fast we have to open earlier to push the tyre more to go with them. Both Mir [8th] and Rins [4th] rode well.”

Motor Suzuki di sebut bisa menikung dengan sangat baik. Walau begitu, ban mereka bisa lebih awet:

“The Suzuki manages the tyre very well, so if they are in front of us you have to push a lot more to be with them.

Alex Rins admits he was “really frustrated” in the immediate aftermath of Sunday’s thrilling opener in Qatar; “they were playing with me on the straight.”

“Inside of the helmet I was very angry because I had good race pace, like them. For example, for the management of the tyres I finished the race with good performance.

Cuma Suzuki memang lemah di jalan lurus:

“As they said, they were playing with me on the straight. But anyway, sometimes it’s like this. Now we go to Argentina and it will be different for sure.”

 

Saat balapan juga bukan Marquez yang menjadi yang tercepat. Justru Yamaha dan Suzuki:

Di balapan tentunya nggak cuma Marquez saja yang bisa mendompleng, tapi semua orang. Dan dalam kondisi seperti ini terbukti bahwa motor Honda Marquez masih kalah dengan Yamaha ataupun Suzuki.

 

Intinya sih belok sangat miring itu cuma gaya – gayaan. Kalau pembalap bisa menikung dengan kecepatan yang sama, mereka nggak bakalan memaksakan diri belok dengan miring banget, dan ini termasuk Marc Marquez.

Marquez itu memang sudah kebiasaan belok dimiringkan banget, tapi Marquez sekalipun tidak memaksakan diri tiap kali belok harus miring banget. Karena tentu bakal merugikan dia sendiri.

Rasanya itu alasan mengapa ia menyebut berusaha menjaga kondisi ban depan dan menikung mengandalkan ban belakang:
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I got on the track with a medium tire in front ,” he explains, “instead of a hard one because the hard one doesn’t work well. But, in the end, neither did the medium. In order to not wear out the front, I also pushed the rear, deteriorating that one, too.

 

Jadi kalau beneran pingin meniru pembalap MotoGP harusnya belajar bagaimana bisa menikung cepat tanpa bikin motor terlalu miring. Tapi kalau cuma ingin untuk gaya gayaan atau ingin kalau jatuh jadi terkenal sih mau bagaimana lagi.