If there is anything worse for a MotoGP rider, team, or factory than always finishing at the back of the field, it’s finishing at the back of the field in some races, winning others, and finishing anywhere in between at the rest. Turning up at a race track and not knowing if you are going to finish first or twenty first, fifth or fifteenth, is a prospect that fills a team and a rider with dread.
Because if your rider is always at the back of the field, you can examine the data, see where the problems are, and work through the issues one by one, gradually improving along the way. If they are up one week, nowhere the next, then solidly midfield the week after that, where do you even start? Do you know why your rider won? Do you know why your rider was last? Can you find any correlation between the bike setting and results?
