Surprising that someone actually expected MM to admit his blistering starting pace was a bad idea. michaelm, are you still selling that bridge? I think you've found a buyer! Contact him at
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Do you mean in the same sense as your friend Goubert admitting Michelin were at fault for a tyre delaminating? I am glad you have seen the light on that issue.
What is amusing is that like tyres failing or a hard carcass tyre which particularly suits an individual rider being retained or returned, there is historical precedent and actually an extensive extremely similar previous debate on this very forum.
Of course MM may just have made a riding error, but that isn't what he says and he was riding the bike, as opposed to writing blog pieces possibly from a windmill on the outskirts of Amsterdam. You and your comrades in arms do demonstrate admirable flexibility in regard to which statements are open to interpretation depending on whether said statements support your points of view.
Inteterestingly in 2010 when Stoner kept DNFing due to front end loses on the GP10 Ducati which he said were random and unpredictable, this was greeted with much derision and critiques of his riding ability and judgement from Rossi fans of your ilk. This was somewhat complicated by a statement from one Valentino Rossi who had also never ridden the bike at the time that Stoner was not pushing hard enough, which like your critiques of Jorge's riding in the wet post Assen 2013 would mean he was a rider who simultaneously both pushed too hard and not hard enough, perhaps giving cause for Messrs Dunning and Kruger to be invoked, but that is parenthetical.
Of course Valentino and JB eventually got hold of the bike and its GP11 successor, and Valentino actually did ride those bikes, only to find that he was lucky if he could get within a second and a half of Stoner's times and that Valentino also experienced front end washouts for no readily apparent reason on that generation of Ducati on the then current control tyres.
