MM is riding a bike now without the usual sophisticated Honda electronics package. He couldn't overcome the acceleration woes on his own...there's your proof. I also wouldn't even say Honda has the worst electronics. Everyone is using the same ECU so it has nothing to do with the electronics being poor. It has to do with how easy it is to tame everything by way of electronics.
The thing with the Ducati engine is that it was more rideable on the GP7 before they increased the intake inlets on the GP8 and made a smaller problem much worse. The GP7 was a good bike, but not a great bike. It had a shitload of power on the straights yes, but using on corner exit was another story altogether. Stoner didn't exploit the engine's strengths as I would argue the engine didn't really have any strengths other than producing a lot of power on a curve that was unusable in anything other than a dead straight line. Somewhat of an oxymoron there I suppose. He tamed the power which is not the same as exploiting the power. Exploiting would indicate he was getting the full benefit of the power, which he most certainly was not. Also the GP7 the handling was somewhat suspect. The front had a tendency to want to get out of shape on corner exit. You could see it wobbling quite a bit....and that's without even discussing the understeer issue the Desmo's had.
MM is a great rider, but what he has done to date still doesn't come close to what Stoner did on the Ducati from 2007 to 2010. I'm of the belief that most to this day still do not really get how monumental an achievement everything Stoner did on those bikes was.
