What happened to Gib's last season? I believe he had this superman attitude bought over from the previous season(2004)where in that year it was Rossi and him until the last couple of races. I think in the 2005 season he assumed it would be the same again, except this time he would try even harder and be that bit faster and that bit better and beat Rossi,the problem was as I see it, he assumed too much and tried too hard. When leading races often he had a good gap between him and the next rider then he'd crash, call it bad luck if you like but I think he was pushing that bit too hard, his attitude appeared to be be "look at me, I'm waaay ahead of you guys, what you gonna do about it?" then he'd lose the front or whatever. His attitude seemed to be to get to the front and stay there coz "I'm better than the rest of you", unfortunately for him while that may have been correct in 2004 in 2005 a very fast Hayden and Melandri were knocking on his door, but rather than realise this and race them head to head he seemed have to prove his superiority over them in disastrous consequences. I feel if he had just got on with racing and had a head to head when required he would have had a more successful season but he insisted on trying to dominate and it didn't work to say the least. He had a couple of bad luck races where the bike let him down but I feel he lost last season by himself. A pity, much as I hate seeing him looking ridiculous with his cap on backwards he's a talented rider and he can do well, but I'm not confident he will do that well on a Duc, even if they make him wear his cap the right way round. Paul
