Everything said publicly on this issue is for public consumption, it's straight out of PR handbook. For reference neither rider blamed eachother or accepted responsibility (Pedrosa) in the most obvious teammate debacle ever at Estoril 06. Honda officially didn’t come out and say, yup Pedrosa is an ......., he ...... up. Don't expect Ducati to throw their million dollar failure under the bus. They're stuck with this ....... now.
This is a more subtle situation than Estoril 06, and even then there were people like you and others, just like on this thread now, saying Pedrosa was justified and worse blamed the incident on Nicky. It's ludicrous now to read people say Dovi was tired or distracted or mentally fatigued or whatever stupid .... I'm reading, newsflash Marquez went into the gravel, lucky the gravel wasnt more deep in that area, he was far more affected and he was in the points lead. In other words he had less of a reason to bin it! It's also idiotic to read people assign some positive attribute to Marc's mistakes that could have cost him the championship. It was stupid, it was lucky, and it was not an example of smarts and sure as hell wasn't admirable; most of all it shows he cracked under pressure! Oh yeah, that's right, he succumbed to pressure, his body language, looking back repeatedly, missing his brake marker, putting the bike on his elbow and riding through the gravel, that my friend is cracking under pressure! Much like some here are suggesting was the case for Dovi. Let's examine this absurd reasoning: Dovi was in the bin or win situation NOT Marquez, yet Marc almost binned and had to ride through the gravel and people are pointing to it like it's so wonderful. Dovi went for broke and binned it! Yet people are flaunting over Marc's heroics? The world has gone mad.
This situation is more subtle than Estoril 06, but as I said above, you got people saying the most insane ....: Lorenzo was helping Dovi, the championship was a foregone conclusion, Dovi wasn't going to win, bla bla. Then why have the race? We knew it was a hail mary situation, we knew it was a miracle proposition, YET people here, stunningly coming from solid members, perceived it's as done because the great infallible Marquez was in the drivers seat. Yet he almost crashed! Yet Dovi was in the lead group, that after a horrible qual. Yet Dovi momentary was just behind the two combatants disputing a win, one of which is known for aggressive riding. The miraculous was a real possibility! But what did Lorenzo vs Pedrosa do in this situation? Pedrosa thumbed the scale in Marc's favor all race. Lorenzo thumbed the scale decidedly against his teammate.
Ducati's star and supposed #1 embarrassingly thumbed his nose at a direct team order. You've tried to downplay it as a mere "suggestion", but it wasn't at the time, see the neon arrow on the pit board. How many times did they light up his dashboard? You nor Ducati can weasel out of this fact. Lorenzo said .... you, I know better, and by doing so did exactly what Rossi did for Yamaha, they had to 'tow' the ........ line afterwards.
How come Ducati or Lorenzo didn't say he was "towing" Dovi up at Malaysia? The answer is because it's ......... J4, you're the last person here to speak in authoritative way regarding Ducati. You are the Italian version of a Birther (an American faction of people who believe the former US president was not born in Hawaii). When you took Rossi's side in the 2015 conspiracy debacle and previously the claim that Ducati didn’t do anything radical to help Rossi during his stint you elevated yourself to Birther status. You're opinion on Ducati is frankly as valid as moon landing conspiracy theorists regarding NASA. I just said this above, but it bears repeating. When you're so far off base on two seminal moments of the sport, everything else is suspect.
If you live in a glass house don't throw rocks.
