This is my view as well, but was refraining from further Rossi bashing. He is surrounded by an entourage/coterie and has pretty much existed in a bubble in his latter career imo. Iirc Uccio even proudly announced it was he who discovered MM’s perfidy at PI 2015 through post race analysis. If Valentino himself had discerned something during the race it would have had more credibility, although the concept of MM having tanked a race he actually won in the process depriving Jorge of 5 points remains a difficult one, for me at least, regardless.
Agree about JB in general, but VR had to part ways with him when he did given he wanted to continue, difficult to do with a crew chief who was openly saying VR was past it. JB was perhaps both right and wrong, maybe VR should have quit back then, but he was wrong about VR no longer being competitive, as finishing 2nd in the championship more than once subsequently including the very close second in 2015 proved
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