My thinking here is that Honda has had a shit bike for years and it just hasn’t shown because Marquez was riding it beyond the limit. The same rings true to me for Yamaha to a lesser extent with Quatararo riding to his only MotoGP world championship. Outside of those two riders, neither bike has been truly competitive week in and week out for years. I see concessions as something to help the engineers more than the riders which is why I think they may be due for both of the Japanese factories.

I feel like Olivera might be saying that from a point of insecurity. Sure, the technical advantage of the Ducati is huge. But if you put a rider like Marc or Fabio on a KTM or Aprilia, I would bet that they would do better than some of the current riders in those factories. It’s the same as it always has been. Success is MotoGP is a team sport and requires both the rider and the manufacturer to be at the top of their game to win.