Team Ducati, Or Team Stoner?

I dont know if anyone else noticed but it seems again that Ducati are more interested in helping Stoner out than helping other team members out! Melandri, Elias and Gunitoli have all had an incredibly torrid time on the GP8 machine no podiums in 8 races.

Stoner on the other hand has moaned about the bike he was incredibly fast on the whole way through winter testing! Melandri even said at one point “F**k If hes gonna be that fast theres not much point the rest of us showing up!” (ok maybe not the best attitude to be carrying around!) My point is the other guys have been really struggling ALL YEAR incuding TESTING! Stoner on the other hand pulled everyones pants down at Qatar, just like he did last year, and then started complaining the bike was crap and didn’t feel the same after a few offs.

So who got the upgrade so they could ride their bike again???? Stoner! HMM! Is it me or does it look like Stoners in a different team? When Fiat Yam got their engine upgrade they spread it around granted it took 3 weeks but to get to the non factory team! Stoner has an upgrade but wheres Marcos??? and after nearly 4 month of data gathering are you trying to telling me Ducati haven’t been able to sort something out to help the other riders in the supposed team?

I firmly believe Marco Melandri is a far superior rider to Casey Stoner i just wish Ducati would give him a tool to do it with!

Findlay Wood

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By Findlay Wood