P1racenews AI automatic summary:
Team-mates accessing each other’s technical data as title rivals was once a hot MotoGP topic for Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo.
The Yamaha team had a visible separation between Rossi and Lorenzo, with a wall dividing the two sides of the garage, even after the 2009 single tire rule. This separation escalated to include a block on data sharing during race weekends in 2010, at Rossi’s request. Yamaha’s team manager stated that they respected the competition between the two riders and wanted to allow them to race in their own ways. Only Yamaha engineers were able to see and share data between the riders. This data-sharing ban disappeared when Rossi left for Ducati at the end of the 2010 season. Ducati, on the other hand, has an open data policy between its eight riders, but Jorge Martin admits that he would prefer not to share his data as it only contributes 10% to his performance. Martin believes that the others can learn from his data and catch up to him. Despite the open data policy, Bagnaia and Martin are in a title fight in MotoGP, with Bagnaia leading by 14 points going into the final two rounds.
