If they made an offer with $, that was the good faith. They did make an offer. Ducati bested the offer, which is only logical, and coupled with the fractured vr relationship, explains the split.
No, that is not good faith.
Everything about the way Yamaha handled things post-Sepang 2015 showed they were more concerned about appeasing Rossi than making Lorenzo feel welcome since he has won more races and titles for Yamaha since the start of the 2010 season. Rossi has done nothing of the sort. He's won races, but nowhere near the amount of Lorenzo. Normal sport contracts, or at least the smart ones pay out based on projected performance rather than past performance. Certainly past performance does get people paid, but it's also how you wind up with incredibly ill-advised deals.
The smart money the next few years was that Lorenzo would be in a better position to outperform Rossi over the long haul especially with age being a consideration. Instead, both were offered identical contracts. If you take both past and future predictors into account, Lorenzo beats Rossi in every aspect outside of fan appeal which doesn't mean a ....... thing for race results. And please, spare me the ........ of 'Rossi sells bikes'...I ran through some of Yamaha's total volume sales globally, and more specifically the supposed core markets that Rossi is supposed to help increase sales in such as Southeast Asia. In the wake of his departure to Ducati, while sales did drop, Yamaha Corporate's own literature attributed the drop in sales in that region due to flooding and economic slowdown. Economic slowdown was also blamed for a decrease in global sales. There was not one mention of Valentino Rossi's departure in the literature you would read as an investor. Which in short is to say that Rossi as a bike seller is total ........, and a fable created by Yamaha Racing and their marketing division to justify the racing division. Yamaha Racing is far different from HRC in that HRC tends to be engaging in engineering exercises, and are looking to learn from what they design and build for racing, whereas Yamaha Racing has become more of a glorified marketing campaign.
Simply offering a contract is not good faith when it diminishes what the person has done, and presumes their direct competitor, who has been demolished in the head-to-head stats since 2009 is somehow their equal. 2008 doesn't count due to the unequal tire situation in the team.
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