Now look wher we at with this perfectly good thread. Its ....... And ur observation has other ramifications that ive thought about since but frankly got caught up in ... for tat. Anyway, back on topic (if thats now possible). I knew Lorenzo had a good start to his first year but i had nit paid attention to the pattern it seems to hav made, that being that hes been a good starter to the season. This season it looks like he put it all together seeing that the previous two had been interrupted by crashes. This year he didnt crash all season in a race. Remember when Stoner was laughed at when he crashed on the warm up lap? Well perhaps we all forgot Lorenzo did the same thing, crashed on the sighting lap (cant remember off top of head where, PI?). Anyway, we normally oversimplify such mistakes as bonehead errors, but it looks like Lorenzo was able to stay clear of bonehead moves (except that pass attemp on Simoncelli at Valencia). Lets not forget, even Lorenzo joined a long list of ..... rookies that used Nicky Hayden as a target last year. But as u correctly point out, Lorenzos has good fast starts. But this year however, that brilliant start pattern continued all year. I think its already been mention, but sbkplanet had a good article on Spies' take on Lorenzo. He basically said, he did what he needed to do all year. That means he stepped it up when he had to and dialed it back when he needed to. Then went into lights out at the end.
