It's funny how you mention Marquez beat Rossi, the facts & the history say it all. Have at look at Rossi's career and the talented rides he was up against, by the time Marquez came on the seen Rossi had already won, the 125cc Championship, the 250cc Championship, the 500cc Championship & then MotoGP championships on both the 800cc & 1000cc classes. Rossi was the only rider of his era still racing when all other riders has retired. I'm sure that if Rossi & Marquez were able to race on the same machinery at the same age, Marquez would have probably crashed trying to catch him. There is just no comparison and Marquez will never come close to Rossi's achievements. Marquez is a talented rider, that's not in question, and perhaps he was at one point the best on the grid, but certainly not now and he certainly won't leave a legacy like Rossi has. Nine Grand Prix World Championships to his name, seven of which were in the premier 500cc/MotoGP class. He holds the record of most premier class victories, with 89 victories to his name. He won premier class World Championships with both Honda and Yamaha.
I think you should switch channels when MotoGP’s on the box. See who’s winning the crown green bowls…
Yeah, but who can ever forget MM doing VR at the corkscrew? And better still, punting him off track then pretending he was sorry. Now that was MotoGP gold! That was nearly as good as Cantona karate kicking that Crystal Palace fan
I'm not denying rossi talent, but he also had lots of help from michelin, special tyres made overnight ,just for him. He could also make dodgy passes as well. Barging into gibernau in the last corner at jerez. Marquez did similar to lorenzo years later. It's no good trying to compare them on equal machinery. Its just opinions
Hey, I loved Rossi. He was in some memorable tussles, which he usually won- marvellous rider and entertainer. He’s left a massive hole in MotoGP….
We're at a very important moment in what will be MotoGP's history I think, bikes, riders, teams, tyres, bike and safety technology, sprint races. You'd never imagine 10 years ago that Ducati, Aprilia and now KTM would be the bikes riders would want to be on, you'd never imagine Honda and Yamaha being so far behind, Suzuki pulling out. What this has given us with the help of Dorna's input is a very level playing field and the times are closer than ever, in some ways the sprint races have helped some but not others, teams/engineers now have one less session to get the setup right, but also have to get two setups for two different races. As we've always seen there are rookies trying to understand the bikes and at the other end of the spectrum you have riders now past their prime, either not realising this, not wanting to accept it, managing a few good results here and there. Since Marc's injury you can see this very clearly, Honda completely lost in fact they probably were at the time but Marc was the difference, Suzuki won and left, Dovi came close but left, Rossi hung up his leathers, we now have some very young hungry talent and Aleix and Marc are the old guard, that has come around very quick to me. Marc is very clever, he knows he's not got the outright pace now, whether that's the bike or him or both I don't know, but he's doing what Rossi did in his twilight years, getting a tow, messing with people's heads, disturbing peoples rhythm, it's all tactics which he hopes will have him places higher up the grid where he stands a better chance of getting some decent points. What he hasn't learnt through all of these years, even after all of these surgeries and years lost is just to take the maximum safe points on the day. You cannot win them all, but you can win championships. I do wonder if Honda regret signing him for 4 years, given he's missed the best part of 3 years realistically, Bradl pretty much did 50% of the races, or maybe Hondas bean counters worked out it's cheaper to pay Marc than invest that money into the bike?
