"it's all about the performance benefits in endurance & stamina from O2-vector doping."
That's what you keep telling me. But what does your own source tell me? Did Conconi also say it was all about O2-vector doping? According to Donati, Conconi's new system of blood boosting was to enrich the blood: "(Conconi) had elaborated a new system, improving upon the one used in Finland, for the transfusion of selected red blood cells, which were stored at -90°, enriched with particular substances and then transfused two or three days before an important event."
Do you think he was enriching it with particular substances like O2, or red cells?
"an improvement of 3 to 5 seconds in the 1500m, 15 to 20 seconds for 5000m races and 30 to 40 seconds for 10,000m."
Sounds amazing! But wait. Should I take Conconi the Italian doping doctor at his word that these estimates from enriched blood transfusions were not embellished? Is there any supporting data? Were the resulting performances really that much faster than natural performances, or were the baseline start times also too slow due to lack of control? In the end, were the Italians from the 1970s and early 80s, notably faster in the 1500m, 5000m, and 10000m? Donati mentioned Italy at the Moscow Olympics. Looking at the Olympic medal count from 1976, 1980, and 1984, Italy doesn't seem unusually strong in these 1500m, 5000m, and 10,000m events, with just two medals in 1984, after he met Conconi in 1981. Similarly, when I looked at top-5 times as of 1990 in events from 1500m to the marathon, there was only 1 Italian, with a performance from 1989.
"LA clearly states that with Ferrari it's all about "red cells.""
Well now we know from Donati, that Lance isn't telling us everything because that is not what Dr. Ferrari learned from Dr. Conconi. We have to take whatever Lance says with a grain of salt, being two-degrees of freedom removed from Dr. Conconi, who enriched the blood with particular substances. Lance's strong belief placing his full faith in Dr. Ferrari has all the hallmarks of a significant placebo effect. What's more is that Conconi and Ferrari were also quite knowledgeable about advances in training without doping, e.g. using heart rate monitors and power meters for feedback, allowing Ferrari to create a comprehensive sophisticated and elaborate strategy that combined many drugs, including dosage and timing, intricately integrated with advanced training.
"The speed of the peleton - especially climbing speeds" ... "And the recovery ..."
Again, was the speed faster than "natural"? Was the recovery from steroids?