Do you think Bagnaia would rather have the most wins and the manufactures title or 3 wins and the championship?
I had to look up those Agostini seasons of pure domination.
I don't totally agree. I think if he loses the #1 this yr, he's going to be on the back foot having lost the title, and having Marquez coming in to be is team mate. Of course, he will have the upper hand within Ducati at least initially, given he is ingrained within the team and knows everyone, but losing the title will hurt.
The Ago domination in the 60;s was wild. But, I have heard he also had such dominant bikes in some seasons that it makes the dominance of the 2002 RC211V seem pale. I cannot verify that though.
For many years there was little competition for the MV bikes, lots of cherry-picking opportunities for the MV brand to rack up the championships. I am not saying that Ago was not a great racer, but for many years he faced little competition to be honest.
It's like asking: would you rather have 2 million dollars handed to you or 1 million dollars handed to you? Sure 2 is better then 1, but I wouldn't call having just 1 million dollars a failure. There are plenty of other riders in the paddock that would take Bagnaia's season record in a heartbeat. Martin was just a better rider on the same machine, not a massive failure by any means.
Martin was not the better rider. He was the more consistent rider. The tortoise was not faster than the hare just smarter. Sure other riders could see having 10 wins as great. But they aren't a 2 time champion. Even still every rider on the grid winning 10 races and having 8 dnf's would think what if about all those dnf's. Thats a fail by any rider. It's a bigger fail by a rider that has won 2 championships and knew he could have won a 3rd with more consistency. Any rider who is not disappointed by this is not championship material.
According to Simon Patterston, Bagnaia told him that there is a patch of new asphalt that he hit while applying the power, which he had never done at any point during the weekend before. Patterson said on the race podcast that "it was clear as day" on the helicopter shot, so I decided to look and came to conclusion that Patterson is full of .....
You forgot Stoner's 2010 (10 wins in 17 races, 58,8%). Not trying to be pedantic, just adding the missing data.
From what I recall, he clipped the inside curb.
