Casey Stoner, harsh lunge against Ducati

Former rider Casey Stoner: “Too many electronics, Ducati has failed.”

Former Honda and Ducati rider Casey Stoner has heavily criticized the current state of affairs in MotoGp, pointing the finger at the too many electronics introduced in recent years. “The truth is that this generation of riders has lost sensibility, many riders can’t really understand the bike because they now have too many electronics, too many controls that get in the way between the bike and the rider,” is his opinion to the In The Fast Lane podcast.

“It becomes impossible to really understand if you’re preserving the tires properly and developing a bike that’s capable of making you go fast at every track. When I was a racer I always fought my engineers to get rid of as much electronics as possible both in practice and during free practice to try to really understand what was going on inside the bike.”

Stoner also points the finger especially at Ducati: “You keep adding more and more electronics and weird contraptions and that’s really putting a blindfold over the real problems. So you don’t really try to solve the problems, I think that’s something that, mainly Ducati, has failed at over the years. It’s why they haven’t won more championships so far, regardless of whether they win it this year or not. That’s because they keep adding more electronic components. It is not a question of experience. Also because experience is a word I didn’t like when I was younger, when I won a World Championship with Loris Capirossi on the team who had more experience.”