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You are either ignorant, or guilty of sophistry in regard to the 2006 season, because if you had watched every race on replay you would be aware that the 2006 Ducati was a very competitive bike, for the championship and not just for individual race wins, including against Rossi in his prime on a Yamaha as I said, although your quibbling about the competitiveness of the field was sophistry in the first place as I also said. You are also changing your narrative given in a recent previous post you claimed that the racing was less good in 2006 than in recent seasons because of what you had heard, not what you had seen, and watching races 10 years later with the benefit of hindsight and preconceived notions based on that hindsight rather than in their historical context is not the same as watching them live anyway, and if you are as profound a gp bike racing fan as you claim rather than a Rossi fanboy googling desperately to try to prove the unprovable in defence of your boy you should have been broadly aware of what happened in the 2006 season anyway.

And again in reply to your last several posts, whatever you may care to theorise and whatever you think a control tyre should do, there is absolutely no evidence the Bridgestone control tyre made teams other than the Yamaha and Honda factory teams more competitive, and it remains to be seen whether the Michelin control tyre will do so other than by means of capricious tyre failures.