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MotoGP
MOTOGP: Stoner - ‘Rossi Eating Humble Pie’
Casey Stoner has scathing words for bitter rival Valentino Rossi, who has come nowhere near replicating his predecessor's success with Ducati.
Repsol Honda's Casey Stoner (Photo: Dorna Communications)
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Reigning champ Casey Stoner says that Valentino Rossi's embarrassing back-flip to leave Ducati for Yamaha should serve as a humbling experience for the seven-time world champion.
The marriage of Rossi and Ducati promised great things when it opened at the start of 2011 but has delivered virtually nothing that Rossi, his Australian crew chief, Jerry Burgess, or Ducati could be proud of. And walking out on Ducati, rather than staying and finishing the job they started, is a big disappointment.
Ducati Corse general manager and engineering guru Filippo Preziosi will almost certainly carry a large portion of blame for 22 months of under-performance.
Rossi has failed to add to his 79 wins and seven world titles since joining Ducati, and his shockingly poor record is further proof that Stoner remains the great genius -- and hero -- of the Bologna team. Stoner's talent and bravado overcame an often beastly Desmosedici to win 23 races and the 2007 World Championship in his four seasons with the red team.
Now Honda's defending world champion, Stoner is bemused by the failure of Rossi and Burgess who went to Ducati boasting they could produce a bike on which "any rider could win."
But without the engineering and design excellence of a Yamaha or Honda to back them, the famed Rossi-Burgess combination has lost some shine.
“I think he's eating enough humble pie at the moment," Stoner said. "I just feel completely sorry for Ducat that he has gone there and done nothing but complain about the bike. And obviously they now have a bike that can do well because he keeps getting beaten by Nicky (Hayden) and Hector (Barbera) and that is nothing to be proud of.
"They (Rossi and Burgess) ate their words from day one. Jerry saying that it took him 80 seconds to fix that bike and that it was a simple issue and now they have had pretty much two years on the thing have not made any inroads.
"Rossi got his best result in the dry virtually in his first race on the Ducati, supposedly with shoulder injuries, and I haven't seen any improvement over the past two years and this is disappointing."
Reigning champ Casey Stoner says that Valentino Rossi's embarrassing back-flip to leave Ducati for Yamaha should serve as a humbling experience for the seven-time world champion.
The marriage of Rossi and Ducati promised great things when it opened at the start of 2011 but has delivered virtually nothing that Rossi, his Australian crew chief, Jerry Burgess, or Ducati could be proud of. And walking out on Ducati, rather than staying and finishing the job they started, is a big disappointment.
Ducati Corse general manager and engineering guru Filippo Preziosi will almost certainly carry a large portion of blame for 22 months of under-performance.
Rossi has failed to add to his 79 wins and seven world titles since joining Ducati, and his shockingly poor record is further proof that Stoner remains the great genius -- and hero -- of the Bologna team. Stoner's talent and bravado overcame an often beastly Desmosedici to win 23 races and the 2007 World Championship in his four seasons with the red team.
Now Honda's defending world champion, Stoner is bemused by the failure of Rossi and Burgess who went to Ducati boasting they could produce a bike on which "any rider could win."
But without the engineering and design excellence of a Yamaha or Honda to back them, the famed Rossi-Burgess combination has lost some shine.
“I think he's eating enough humble pie at the moment," Stoner said. "I just feel completely sorry for Ducat that he has gone there and done nothing but complain about the bike. And obviously they now have a bike that can do well because he keeps getting beaten by Nicky (Hayden) and Hector (Barbera) and that is nothing to be proud of.
"They (Rossi and Burgess) ate their words from day one. Jerry saying that it took him 80 seconds to fix that bike and that it was a simple issue and now they have had pretty much two years on the thing have not made any inroads.
"Rossi got his best result in the dry virtually in his first race on the Ducati, supposedly with shoulder injuries, and I haven't seen any improvement over the past two years and this is disappointing."
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