Yes, that is what I said, alex criville, a world champion on the previous world championship winning bike took it rapidly backwards for the factory team and when they started listening to rossi, then in his rookie year, things turned around for his quasi factory one bike team .
This thread is totally ridiculous, sure stoner copped much unfair criticism, but as lex who has no horse in the race has said rossi and jb can and have developed and sorted many bikes prior to the unsortable ducati. Furasawa obviously was a very significant contibutor to rossi's success at yamaha, and to yamaha's near decade long ascendancy in general, but he gives great credit to rossi and has continued to do so during the period rossi hasn't been a yamaha rider. Perhaps it is coincidence that rossi and furasawa had such a great synergy, just as it was mostly accidental that stoner happened to be just the right person to ride the 2007 ducati, but I don't see how this diminishes the achievements of rossi and furasawa (or stoner for that matter).
