Exactly right, however its far easier to continue to lay the boot into Rossi if your said Rider isn't getting the 'cred' he apparently deserves after 10 years on a factory bike and 3 wins to show for it
The facts don't lie, in the Rossi Ducati saga 2011 was one of the worst performances from a top level rider/team in recent history. However Rossi still beat Hayden, who had 2 more seasons on the POS under his belt, and Rossi is still beating Hayden this season. JB's recent comments completely debunked all of the absolute ........ being sprouted about Ducati's 'Moving Heaven and Earth' to cater for Rossi, so far the only serious fundamental update that has been made to that bike since 2009 has been the twin spar chassis. And they've only made 1! To Honda's 20 odd this season alone! Phillip Morris is footing the bill for Rossi and his crew, so all of the other ........ about Ducati forking out a fortune on Rossi, and Rossi is throwing Ducati under a bus, is also now quite comical to consider. If anything the ones being robbed here are Marlboro, and they are being robbed by a lackluster approach by Ducati to this highly competitive series (but I certainly don't feel sorry for the Marlboro man). Again I think its admirable Ducati are there at all, but whats the point of being in Motogp and having such great riders if you aren't prepared to give them what they need to win.......what they have done is build a bike in January-with a new frame, and not done anything with it since.
The Ducati has not been a championship contender since the others caught up in 2008-and got Bridgestones, I should remind some here of Nicky's debut season on the Duck in 2009 ( two seasons after winning the world title) where he finished 13th, 3 spots behind the satellite Kawasaki effort of Melandri. This is the true state of the Ducati and if Kawasaki and Suzuki were still there-they would probably be also beating the Ducati, Stoner had a unique way of piloting sure-a special sync that was ultimately flawed and in the gravel way too many times to be a title contender, and right now Pedders is handing him his arse on the Honda, and we all know that no one believes that Pedders would come close to the podium on the Duck.
Spies leaving Yamaha is hardly a shock, this was almost as predictable as the sun rising, his season has been atrocious on what is believed to be the best bike on the grid this year. There was no way he was going to keep the factory seat with Cal, Dovi and especially Rossi potentially lining up for it. Some of the other ........ I've read recently about Rossi not deserving a Factory seat back at Yamaha or anywhere is probably the most outlandish rubbish hater dribble I've ever heard.
It will be interesting to see, Kropo still feels Rossi will stay with Ducati, after the Spies announcement I have my doubts though. The gamble of staying with Ducati is probably too great for Rossi at this point of his career, and if he does-it will be interesting to see what measures Audi puts in place to ensure that the bike actually develops at the pace that is required, Yamaha knows whats needed, they been caught out before and reacted brilliantly-Ducati has yet to.
