Rate Dovizioso as a rider

Dovi spent 3 years on a factory Honda and only managed 1 single win. His performance was particularly bad in 2011. Honda was the dominant bike that season winning 13 of 17 races but Dovi only managed 7 podiums and failed to win a single race that season.Teammate comparison:Pedrosa won 9 races and scored 29 podiums as Dovi teammate. Dovi won just 1 race and scored 11 podiums. Dovi rarely finished ahead of Pedrosa apart from races where Pedrosa was caring injuries.Stoner trashed Dovi even worse. Stoner won 10 races and scored 16 podiums while Dovi failed to win a single race and scored just 7 podiums as Stoner teammate. Dovi only managed to finish a race ahead of Stoner once (Mugello 2011). Stoner finished ahead of Dovi 14 times of the 15 races that both of them completed.Dovi was never considered a top rider until 2017. All of the sudden he started to win several races and managed to fight for the championship until the last race against Marquez.Do you guys think that a rider over 30 years old drastically improved or Ducati was actually a rocket ship in 2017 and Lorenzo inability to adapt in that season made Dovi look much better than he really is.How would you rate Dovi as a rider?
Submitted August 17, 2018 at 08:10PM by pteranodonte https://www.reddit.com/r/motogp/comments/9852nq/rate_dovizioso_as_a_rider/?utm_source=ifttt