Jordan...You obviously have not been keeping a close watch on Marco this season? He has had no end of problems with his bike. So much so that it is widely viewed that the frame the KR Team cobbled together is so much better than what Marco has been handed by HRC out of the scrap box!
Baring that in mind the results he has obtained have been superb to my mind. Let's not forget that the satellite teams always lag behind the HRC bikes, it's their policy that no satellite team should be stronger or as strong as their main bikes. Fact.
He is lucky to have possibly the highest degree of natural talent(behind Valentino) to have performed as well as he has.(Just compare what his team mate Toni Elias has managed on the same bike? Toni is very good, but he aint no Marco Melandri!)