The Yamaha Lorenzo is the apotheosis of a rider capable of finding balance between looseness and speed in every single corner of the track, without a particularly high peak but with enough constance to make him unbeatable in most tracks if alternative weather and/or track conditions don't come to .... up his inner zen-ish metronome.
Of course he won't be able to duplicate, not even remotely, this peculiar style nor the level of perfection achieved with it at Yamaha. If he or his mechanics start with that objective, the failure will be miserable. What he can try to do is to make the Ducati just one tiny bit more ridable in corners. It will be a massive challenge cause he'll have to put aside the level of perfectionism and control he can now afford to expect, put his hands on the dirty muds and work with them to make magic. I'm not sure he'll win in the two years he has but I'm quite confident Lorenzo's permanence at Ducati will finally give a proper and stable identity to the bike, something which not even Stoner was able to give. That bike needs discipline more than anything else, and no one is as disciplined as Jorge.
Besides, the simple image - which now seems so odd or at least unusual - to see Jorge smoking everyone's ... on straights like it's nothing... is exciting. Jorge's cornering + Desmo straight. To quote Frankenstein Junior by Brooks: "it could work". Why not?
