För er intresserade så skriver david emmet som vanligt en helt lysande text i ämnet. Finns på denna adressen
http://www.motomatters.com/analysis/2012/05/18/2012_le_mans_motogp_thursday_round_up_on.htm
En sak jag tycker var speciellt pricksäkert skrivet var detta:
A crasher. Mentally weak. Not a serious racer. The man who only won the 2007 title because he had the best bike. And a rider who relied solely on traction control to be fast. That was Casey Stoner's reputation at the end of 2010.
Valencia, November 2010. Casey Stoner steps onto the Honda and devastates the field on his very first time out on the bike, with only Jorge Lorenzo capable of matching his times. Meanwhile, Valentino Rossi, the man who was believed to have single-handedly transformed the Yamaha from a basket case to championship winner, who had reaffirmed the belief that the rider is far more important than the bike, stepped onto the bike that Stoner had left behind and was nowhere. An embarrassment; 15th position, 1.749 seconds off the pace.
At last, Stoner's reputation could be placed in some perspective. Rossi - a rider renowned for not crashing - became a regular visitor to the gravel trap. The reputation of being a crasher seemed to belong more to the bike than to Stoner. Ducati went nowhere with Rossi aboard, with the Italian himself conceding that the only way to go fast on the bike was to sail right at the limit of the machine, saving crashes several times a lap, on every lap. He was asked the same question over and over again, and he gave the same answer every time: "Casey rode this bike in a very special way. I cannot ride it like this."
Senare i texten skriver han lite förenklat förklarat att den största anledningen att vissa har svårt för honom är att han helt
enkelt visat gång på gång att han är snabbare än rossi. Så jäkla klockrent och rätt uppenbart faktiskt när man tänker på det.....