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Alf

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Was wondering why Stoner went back to Ducati to be a brand ambassador. I thought he wasn't happy with Ducati over his lactose incident. He left for Honda and won there, where he finished out his career. I would've thought he would be associated with Honda in his retirement MotoGP days but he is with Ducati again. Would someone please enlighten me. Thanks.
 
They don’t badger him like Honda would to be a corporate robot. Plus they let him ride motogp bikes just for fun. Honda would not let him do that.
 
DCPanni said:
They don't badger him like Honda would to be a corporate robot. Plus they let him ride motogp bikes just for fun. Honda would not let him do that.
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Sounds about right.

Stoner doesn't seem like someone who makes a decision solely based on money.
 
Alf said:
Was wondering why Stoner went back to Ducati to be a brand ambassador. I thought he wasn't happy with Ducati over his lactose incident. He left for Honda and won there, where he finished out his career. I would've thought he would be associated with Honda in his retirement MotoGP days but he is with Ducati again. Would someone please enlighten me. Thanks.
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Forgive my stupidity what is a lactose incident?
 
About what was said above,, and lets not forget Stoner had a very large following and won a motogp title for Ducati.

Stoner was having health issues from being lactose intolerent issues, which he didn't know he had. He sat out a few races, and also it impacted his riding, and Ducati basically said he needed to man the F up.. But after some professional help they figured it out, and thats that, but yeah ducati was not happy about him taking time off in the race season as you could imagine.
 
Honda has a reputation for treating their riders like crap if they aren't contending for every race win, no matter how well the rider has done for them in the past.

Hayden, Dovi, and Pedrosa have all complained about it at one point or another.

But Honda have the best bike on the grid, so Honda isn't scared to put a rider in their place if need be.

When Stoner retired, it didn't matter to Honda that he won a championship for them. At that point he was just a test rider, and was probably treated like one.
 
If I remember correctly Stoner said the people in Ducati management he had issues with when he left were gone by that time he came back to test. He always had good memories with Ducati,
 
There was also the rumor that a Ducati staff member tried to have an affair with his wife. Also they were negotiating with Lorenzo to replace Casey behind his back while he was out with his medical issues. Sh#t wasn't right...
 
Think I heard somewhere that Stoner will not be be a test rider next year?
 
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In 2015, when Stoner was still contracted with HRC as a very part-time test rider, Dani Pedrosa was injured and Stoner offered to fill in for him for two of the MotoGP races, the Argentina and Austin MotoGP races. Stoner hadn't raced at these tracks in his racing career , so was keen to participate in both these races. HRC shied away and instead chose their reserve rider (Hiroshi Aoyama?) to ride Pedrosa's bike in these races. It went downhill from there between Stoner and HRC. Stoner also felt under-utilised as a test rider at HRC and felt that Honda didn't really listen to his inputs on bike development. Ducati seized on this situation and offered Stoner a more involved role in developing the Desmosedici MotoGP bike and Stoner was game for it. The earlier crash on the Honda at Suzuka (due to a stuck throttle) where he broke some bones did not help the relationship either. This is the background to Stoner's signing up with Ducati where he'd already won a championship (in 2007?).
 
KarmaRider said:
In 2015, when Stoner was still contracted with HRC as a very part-time test rider, Dani Pedrosa was injured and Stoner offered to fill in for him for two of the MotoGP races, the Argentina and Austin MotoGP races. Stoner hadn't raced at these tracks in his racing career , so was keen to participate in both these races. HRC shied away and instead chose their reserve rider (Hiroshi Aoyama?) to ride Pedrosa's bike in these races. It went downhill from there between Stoner and HRC. Stoner also felt under-utilised as a test rider at HRC and felt that Honda didn't really listen to his inputs on bike development. Ducati seized on this situation and offered Stoner a more involved role in developing the Desmosedici MotoGP bike and Stoner was game for it. The earlier crash on the Honda at Suzuka (due to a stuck throttle) where he broke some bones did not help the relationship either. This is the background to Stoner's signing up with Ducati where he'd already won a championship (in 2007?).
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Well put and very accurate, Honda always throw their former riders under the bus. Hailwood was a perfect example of that. After making Honda a household word with multiple TT wins and world championships, they laughed at him and told him he was too old when he wanted to come back and race the Island with them. So he came back on a Ducati and kicked their ass's. Mcguiness, Martin, and Stoner all got hurt and the new version Fireblade, and got the Honda .... you.
 

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