[Highlander179]

Originally Posted by signit98

Nope, I believe (much like it has been suggested before) they they won't go through the troubles of making the bike fit to his riding style, thus offering a patch-work-effort... they will probably start over! Good luck on that one.
Fact is that out of all the riders they have had in recent past, only Stoner found it in him to adapt to the bike and made it work... and rather well, I might add. AGAIN - READ: STONER ADAPTED TO THE BIKE! Rossi expects this to go the other way around... it will be a problem and it will be trouble... especially in such a relative short time frame.

I am not saying that Rossi CAN not adapt... the question is, WILL he want to adapt?

What had surprised Preziosi most on the second day of the test was Rossi's incredible calmness and positive attitude, the Italian remaining calm despite such a "bad test" as the Ducati MotoGP boss put it. At least Rossi was providing a lot of feedback, Preziosi said, and giving them a lot of work to do. Back in Bologna, the design team would have a meeting with Rossi's long-time crew chief Jerry Burgess, and run some models to help improve the front-end feel. The list of changes would be long indeed, altering rider position, weight distribution, chassis stiffness and geometry before the next test at Sepang. "Now we need to adapt the bike to Valentino," Preziosi explained.

Rossi expects what?