He's much less reckless than he was a few years ago. Fewer incidents of trading paint. Fewer dogfights. Much more race-long tail-gaiting followed by a well planned pass on the penultimate lap.
There were a few here who constantly mocked me, during MM's first season, when I said he would evolve. I submit, he's done that, and will continue to mature. He's spent so much time developing his capacity for knowing where the edge is and where it drops off, and people just assume that he'll always do that. I reckon he'll have enough data stored in his head that he won't need to take as much risk. We all know he's already a better rider than Rossi, and I think he can further surpass Rossi by going to a place where, like Rossi, his crashes are infrequent, where his risk factor will be more calculated toward a pragmatic long run strategy not based on the swinging-.... need to win every race.
