A few thoughts. One, Nakamoto wields iron control in that interview. Two, Nakamoto is still pissed with the single tire supplier (gifted for the benefit of Rossi). However, I still don't like the reason given to go back to a tire war. He recalls satellite rider Tamada wining in Rio, and as he mentioned it I was reminded of Elias wining in Estoril. I don't think this makes a good case to go with a tire war when some riders are going to get some advantage of tires that other riders will not get given the propensity of the sport to favor only the darlings. Less I remind everybody, the only reason Elias was competitive that fateful race was because Pedrobot discarded his SNS (once this was revealed, people should have realized the outrageousness of the level playing field). Third, Nakamoto reminded us that Dorna changes rules at will for its own devices, most of the time for obvious favoritism, despite many observers with head in the sand when it comes to this (including "experts"). When he mentions that Dorna changed the testing limits, he says for obvious affect "we don't know why", (we got the message thank you, but we sane people already knew) It was obviously done to help Rossi figure out the Ducati (despite this favoritism, it was to no avail). Though the trend continues, as the rookie rule was changed with the same level of explanation, that is, none. Fourth, Honda got checkmated with Dornas custodianship of Wsbk. Now they have no leverage. Honda have left the AMA, Wsbk, and now are stuck to compete in MotoGP (I laugh at his suggestion he would only compete in an "all-Japan" series). The shifty nature of the rules was fine up until they lost Rossi, Dorna had a very sympathetic ear, now they find themselves having to compete in a situation where they are no longer writing the rules in chalk. That is, now they complain about the rules changes, but when they ran the table, the rules were just fine in that same white limestone material. He got ...... by Dornas maneuver on the tire change and weight increase, but that was all done under the "rules".
He also says Pedro’s was the king of the Hondas, but sweeps the fact it was by design, that is detrimental to others trying to ride the Pedrocycle. When that failed strategy didn't work (and make no mistake, it was a complete failure), they decided a more 'all' rider friendly bike might be the ticket (since the development was going to complete ....). Enter Casey and he spanks Pedro. So much for the "king", more like a 'queen' (and I'll add, a little ..... to boot). I found myself laughing several times in during this article, first, by poor Noyes being stomped on repeatedly, but also by the hypocrisy of it all. Best moment, Nakamoto says journalists are scum of the earth, then says, oh, I didn't mean you Noyes. Hahaha. MF.
