I think Cal is doing a very smart intelligent move to run to Ducati, he is making the best timing.
Every time, you have two different groups of riders -
Aliens - one that is consistently the best, and always around the top (Lorenzo, Pedrosa, and now Marquez, Rossi slowly losing grip, or has already lost grip on Alien status).
Pretenders - people like Cal, or in history, Alex Barros, Sete Gibernau, Luca Cadalora, Loris Capirossi and so on.
The pretenders are always having up and down performance through the years. They will have a time when they are at their peak, for example Barros challenging Rossi in 2002 in last 4 races.
But after their peak (which is usually short term, or last less than a year), they will go back to normal.
Cal Cruthlow is exactly in the pretender's group. Now that his stocks are high, because he is at the peak of his fluke performance, he is not going to waste the chance to get big paycheck and go to Ducati.
What a smartass. He knows if he stays in Tech3, he can't sustain his fluke performance.
And he fully understands he is not a great rider, beating Rossi is not big deal these days, this old dog is washed out and wasted.
So Cal gonna blow his own trumpet and get the Ducati ride with big paycheck.
And when he definitely (100%) fail in Ducati, he has got the bike to blame. If he stays in Yamaha, then his stocks will fall next year because he could not sustain his current performance.
So Ducati is the best option for Cal, big paycheck, a bike to blame for his failures, and still being held at the status of "the nearly guy / or what could have been guy if he has factory Yamaha",...while continuing to perform poorly.
And all the fans are gonna go,...ooooh ahhhh.... what if he is on factory Honda / or Yamaha,..he would be fighting for the championship.
Actually, Cal's performance is pretty poor,...he could not even consistently beat Rossi, being the up and coming guy. Sigh...
Every time, you have two different groups of riders -
Aliens - one that is consistently the best, and always around the top (Lorenzo, Pedrosa, and now Marquez, Rossi slowly losing grip, or has already lost grip on Alien status).
Pretenders - people like Cal, or in history, Alex Barros, Sete Gibernau, Luca Cadalora, Loris Capirossi and so on.
The pretenders are always having up and down performance through the years. They will have a time when they are at their peak, for example Barros challenging Rossi in 2002 in last 4 races.
But after their peak (which is usually short term, or last less than a year), they will go back to normal.
Cal Cruthlow is exactly in the pretender's group. Now that his stocks are high, because he is at the peak of his fluke performance, he is not going to waste the chance to get big paycheck and go to Ducati.
What a smartass. He knows if he stays in Tech3, he can't sustain his fluke performance.
And he fully understands he is not a great rider, beating Rossi is not big deal these days, this old dog is washed out and wasted.
So Cal gonna blow his own trumpet and get the Ducati ride with big paycheck.
And when he definitely (100%) fail in Ducati, he has got the bike to blame. If he stays in Yamaha, then his stocks will fall next year because he could not sustain his current performance.
So Ducati is the best option for Cal, big paycheck, a bike to blame for his failures, and still being held at the status of "the nearly guy / or what could have been guy if he has factory Yamaha",...while continuing to perform poorly.
And all the fans are gonna go,...ooooh ahhhh.... what if he is on factory Honda / or Yamaha,..he would be fighting for the championship.
Actually, Cal's performance is pretty poor,...he could not even consistently beat Rossi, being the up and coming guy. Sigh...
