Sunday, 17 May 2009What I can tell you, he has been trying his best this season but seems not getting good result so far. Hit by Takahashi in Motegi, crashed in Qatar, his morale has shattered.
Ducati acted very soon by reshuffling the garage, he is given a new chief, a good spoken english but seems no better in Le Mans (he qualified 13th - AFAIK). All those things seems a coincidence to Marco Melandri i! n 2008, he was supposed to be Casey Stoner's challenger, that's up to before he hadn't tested the bike, when he rode the bike for the first time, Melandri already knew, 2008 will be a disaster to him... when it came to race, Melandri described himself as a lavish spectator on the track, his opponents were getting smaller and smaller and finally vanished from his sight. I really don't expect that bad to Nicky, but his luck still hesitate to come over him.
There was an insider guy who said that the main problem for riders out there (except Stoner) is they can't handle the bike when it comes to the turns, Nicky (and Melandri) can't control the bike back to its racing line, the electronics (again) plays its part, Nicky is similar to Casey in braking (both of them like to use rear brake, dirt track background, you name it) but still they are just different riders, Nicky must find his way to fix his problems in order to fight on the track.
Casey once said wh! en press asked him what he has given to Marco Melandri to solv! e his pr oblems, he answered," I ride differently to Marco, we are just different in every aspects, in the end of the day, all my advices and datas I got are useless for him." Nicky also must find his own way to tame his Duke by his own style.
Go Nicky, before its all too late...
