They should return to the trellis frame.

LOL

Brilliant!

I really don't get it.
How is it possible that after a year of dragging Ducati off in a direction they didn't want to go Rossi is worse on it than at the beginning of last season?
Also how can he be last of all the Ducati riders beaten even by the satellite guys?
If Hayden can get 6th on the grid can anyone doubt that Stoner would have put it on pole?
That Ducati has a bigger straight line speed advantage over the Yamahas than when the 800s first came out!

I like Ducatis very much and it bothers me that the move to Rossi may well hurt them badly.

The remark about the Penegale featuring "discarded motoGP technology" is both hilarious and sad.

If this shambles continues, and Rossi swans of to rally cars at the end of the year, where the fook does the Ducati GP program go direction-wise?

GOAT or not, this is a massive blot on his copy-book.

What you'd give to be a fly on the wall at Ducati meetings right now. It's hard to fathom what the fooks going on. The guy didn't become a shit rider overnight or over a broken leg surely?? Really hope he can somehow turn it around.

He has gotten some real competition virtually overnight though.
I agree that he was the best in the paddock for a while, but the paddock was not as good as it had been or is now.
He is simply being outclassed and his time is done.
Maybe put him on a Yamaha again and see if he can ride it well?
The Ducati ruined Nicky's carreer and now it's Rossi's turn.
He's always been a big mental games player and he gambled by making all those comments about Ducati.
It backfired and the bike was harder to ride than he thought and that broke his will.
A sad but fitting end to a great but unchallenged carreer.

Valentino Rossi had just gotten old, I mean he's been at the top for a really long time. Eventually we all get old and we lose our edge. In Motorsport especially you have a limited window where your at your best.
There's also just better competition on the grid these days.
Personally I think the crash and subsequent death of his friend Marco Simoncelli last year may have taken some of his mental edge away. Losing someone close can really affect you for some time.
On the flip side it is only one race and anything can happen still.

Rossi makes the bed he sleeps in. He chose to show his will and ego was stronger than accepting a teamate of the likes of Jorge, which Yamaha had pleaded with him to consider very thoughtfully. He was going to show Yamaha the same thing he had showed Honda and he may be the only one who believed it. Burgess was not too keen to chase another manufactures title with Rossi and Rossi won out in the end. This was surely the work og overinflated ego and perhaps the belief that you could bend the direction of an Italian motorcycle maker.
Egg on face and few to think Ducati is to blame in the end Rossi is left standing in the cold. The bigger they are the harder they fall. Ianone is the next Rossi and when Bradl moves into Pedrosa's spot next year Ianone will be Honda bound with the likes of Stoner to teach him the ropes.
Rossi's days are over, 46 will forever have a shining spot in history.