I think Nakano's the main problem with the bike. I don't think it'll ever win a GP with him on it - he just doesn't ride hard enough. He never uses the whole track, never gets it sliding under brakes and never gives it enough off corners to spin it up. Compare that to pretty much the rest of the field. Rossi's all over the place when he's riding hard. The back's on the brink of stepping out both on entry and exit. Capirossi was sliding around all over the place. Nicky Hayden's calmed down a lot, but he was on the limit more than once. The list goes on.
The bike may be harder to ride than the others, but it has good mid-corner speed which is where Nakano's making up ground in qualifying I reckon.
