Your flat out denial as implausible any explanation that doesn't fit your narrative being entirely different, of course, as well as you outright ignoring anything you can't actually deny. The particularly large elephant/woolly mammoth in the room which you refuse to acknowledge is that MM won this race, defeating JL and hence depriving him of 5 points; meanwhile you contend it is plausible, in fact undeniable, that MM somehow intricately contrived a race result in a race he actually won without control of the actions of the 3 other riders involved.
Why does MM need to have any explanation for what was a race winning tactic ie a tactic which won the race?. He didn't brake check Rossi that I saw, nor make any hard passes which threatened Rossi finishing the race, why is any more required of him? Why is he uniquely required to ride at the pace of his fastest lap for the whole race and win by the largest margin possible? Rossi certainly hasn't for almost the entirety of his career. As I said, MM crashed out of a 4.1 second lead in the same race in 2014, and dnfed 6 of the next 16 races. You seem to be suggesting, as I have also said, that since he had been riding like an ..... he was obliged to keep this constant for the whole season otherwise it was unfair to Rossi's title bid. Was it unfair for Pedrosa to recover from his arm pump surgery as well?.
Dani Pedrosa, who won the previous and following races on a Repsol Honda, and was finishing 5 seconds down the field in 5th while all this tanking was going on, also did at Valencia exactly what MM claimed he did at PI, let his tyres cool and fuel load lighten and came on strong at the end of the race. There is very strong evidence that pushing too hard early on last year's Honda was not a good strategy for MM, ie 6 dnfs as I said, and he had 2 near loses early in the PI 2015 race, both staged no doubt according to your totally non-agenda driven narrative.
I can think of tactical reasons other than not crashing out of the race by pushing harder than was necessary, or possibly sustainable, for the way the race transpired in any case. If you wanted to win this race the thing to do was not to let Iannone with his superior straight line performance have a shot at you close to the end of the last lap, which he managed to execute to take 3rd from Valentino. JL specifically, if politely, said he didn't want to contest Iannone on the last lap for fear of being taken out, and also that he considered it likely that it would be Iannone contesting him. Having JL to deal with rather than Iannone wouldn't be a bad plan if it was one.
Most of all your boy Valentino, being perhaps smarter than you (I am actually not sure whether that is argumentum ad hominem btw) on the evidence of the last race and even the race in which he crashed out is fairly evidently addressing exactly what I myself said, in the very prolonged course of our discussions last season, was the weakness of the tactics/strategy which have pretty much been his career-long approach and and have served him so well, and is attempting to win from the front or at least be near the front from the start of races. In current circumstances/against the current top riders, particularly Jorge on his good days, having to come through the field late is simply not an optimal strategy, and as I have previously pointed out time/distance gained by being faster early counts no less than that gained by being faster late.
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