While Yamaha plays coy and tires to hide their seamless transmission to be tested this week, and Honda move confidently forward knowing that they currently have the package to beat, Ducati seem to be the only ones giving an honest assessment of their current situation: stuck right where they were in November of 2012. The GP13 is actually a GP12.1, in the sense that it's new, but only in construction.
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We don't see this as a putdown on Ducati's test yesterday but more an accurate report from a team that isn't officially speaking of what needs to be done for the "new team" to evaluate the "old team's" tests and theory's to establish a baseline. Moving backwards in order to go forward.
Add to that the health of at least one of the riders is still TBD and cleary not quite there yet. In our opinion the clock starts when Ducati officially delivers the true GP13