Perhaps you haven't been watching yourself. That was his previous modus operandi, but after crashing out of 6 races in the first part of last year trying to win every race regardless of whether his bike was capable of doing so he changed his approach for the second half of the year, which seems to have carried over to this year going by the Qatar race, and has actually said he realised he needed to change his approach. And isn't the theory that he was toying with Rossi at PI and Sepang last year the whole basis of the hatred those of your ilk exhibit towards him in any case?
I still am not a major fan because of his past recklessness, particularly the Willairot incident, but he seemed to have also tempered his approach in this regard last year, and his past incidents were all a result of recklessness rather than deliberate malfeasance imo, subtle though that distinction may be.
