I just dont see how anyone can say that the Ducati has all these serious issuse while Stoner is winning races and co-leading the championship???
Because Stoner is winning in spite of the bike and not because of it. If the bike was good there would be more Ducatis further up the field instead of languishing in the back. But we've been over this time and time again...
Sounds to me like they need a couple of more good riders. As I have said before Kalio is in his rookie season.. give him some time too come to grips. Canepa Is also in his rookie season, Testing and Racing are NOT the same. Then you have Hayden who other than 06 has never been spectacular in Moto GP and has seriously strugged with the 800cc bike for both Honda and Ducati.
Just do see how with these facts you can conclude that the bike is trash.
Hayden has won a world championship which as far as I know is more than Lorenzo, Pedrossa or any of the other "good" riders have done with the exception of Stoner and Rossi. But regardless of that the facts are very clear: Last year Nicky Hayden finished top five eight times and only finished outside the top ten four times. He put it on the podium twice (a second and third). He had two DNF's other than that his two finishes outside the top ten where two thirteenth place finishes. This was last year, so it is very recent not some pipe dream about something he did on the 990cc Honda three years ago, this was just last year. I won't even go into the Michelin tires or any of the other issues. lets just look at the results as they are.
Fast forward to this year. Up until this race, Nicky Hayden has lapped an average of two seconds a lap slower on the Ducati than he did on the Honda. Now a rider is unlikely to have forgotten how to go two seconds a lap faster, more likely it is an equipment limitation causing that. This final race helped a bit because the base setting was an improvement which immediately made his times competitive in the first practice session turning a fastest lap 0.516 seconds slower than Stoner. Free practice 2, Hayden managed to improve his time by over half a second while Stoner only manages to go less than two tenths faster. In Final qualifying Hayden was only 0.275 seconds out of fifth place that is not a huge amount of time.
Those are the facts. Hayden went from a top five finisher, visited the podium twice last year and had a season best finish of second place to being a consistent finisher outside of the top ten and a season best finish of tenth so far and the only substantive change is the bike. So you tell me, how can it be anything but the bike?