Domination is just part of sport. I’m sure some people are just haters without a cause, but if you look at the details, it’s difficult not to be a hater. Ducati couldn’t beat Marquez and they couldn’t buy Marquez so circumvented rules that had been agreed in principle since the early 90s when active ride height first reared it’s ugly head. It was Cagiva stirring the pot back then, Ducati’s cousin in the Castiglioni empire.
Perhaps the situation would be less frustrating if GP were not the second series that Gigi was burning to the ground to get what he wants. He was the subject of many complaints about rules violations during his time with WSBK’s factory Aprilia team. When Kawasaki mobilized to defeat them, and then Gigi bailed for redder pastures, it gave us the Johnny Rea show, which caused the collapse of the old SBK formula.
Gigi is the private equity hatchet man of MotoGP. He sees an opportunity. He strips all of the value for himself and his employer, and then he leaves the sport in much worse condition than he found it. But he gets nothing but praise because the hatchet men know how to tee up good press from “independent journalists”. The current situation in MotoGP is absurd. A formula so bad it’s a lame duck 1 year into its 5-year cycle. I don’t think the 21/20L 800s were that quick to die. This is Luigi’s game. It’s terrible.
