Helloyes
You imply that there is little skill involved in the current form of racing but that is too simplistic to be true. All these machines have the same aides more-or-less as there are 2 bikes for each team and yet you see Rossi miles ahead of Edwards, Stoner miles ahead of Capirossi but the pairings of Hopkins/Vermuelin and Pedrosa/Hayden are much closer together. So either the bike suits them all better or they are closer in skill levels.
Too often we have heard that the single biggest difference is tyres and it has been evident with certain races favouring Michelin and others Bridgestone - even different compounds of the same tyre showed huge differences between team mates.
So when all is said and done over the course of the season, Stoner's team package (which includes his skill level) was better than anyone else which is why he is numero uno this year. To genralise and say that Stoner wins on the twist of his wrist is to discredit what all these guys do in MotoGP.
Bye the way, although the birth of my first child coincides with the Australian MotoGP, I have prepped my old CB750K2 and will be at Phillip Island for the race next week...
Bill.