ANybody who says rossi only wins on the best package must not have watched the first two years he was on the yammy
that bike was CLEARLY way sub par in bike terms and he rode around EVERY issue and rode hard and won two championships against better teams and better bikes. I think yamaha was willing to do anything at that time to make the bike rossi wanted/needed to win and win he and they did. i think they lapsed some on the 800 for whatever reason, and now the yamaha is incapable of being ridden around those problems regardless of whether the greatest rider is riding it combined with the fact the tires are not as good so it is two fold.
I
rossi for saying something as he should, he is their hope, thier spokesman, their champion, who else should say something? if they can't give him a bike even capable by him of winning why should he stay? he is not aksing for the best bike just something a bit behind the other bikes with better tires so he can stand a chance of winning.
CE biached about the SP2 to HRC as he needed more power in the midst of trying to come back and with the WSBK and everybody was like hell yeah and now rossi does almost the same and he is a winer?
i think it stems from rossi staying quite for so long and for him doing parlor tricks that people don't see. he had ridden total crap from yamaha while they forged ahead and people thought nothing of it yet he was wringing the neck off that pile o crap. he is now foing the same but they seem to have stopped trying to improve
be nice to see him move to the suzi
