Just an observation here and I could be off. But you seem to have a hate on anythng to do with Rossi or as you put it Rossi Fans?
Just because some us are feed up with seeing Marc Marquez cause more crashs than the average rider and getting away with it cause of his standing in MotoGP has nothing to do with Rossi. The guy is retired time to get over your hate for him , no?
Yes Marc is an amazing rider on most likely one of the more difficult bikes to ride on the grid. But that doesnt excuse him for taking the chances he does , then constantly taking out another rider and not getting penalized for it. I can't recal seeing another rider going into another teams garage to appologize as much as Ive seen Marc do it.
Maybe just maybe Rossi was correct and Marc just doesnt give a ****.
I am regarded as 'anti-Rossi' around here only because I'm a Marc fan (as well as Mir who is a big fan of Rossi); but sure you can say that I'm not a fan of Pecco because I'm a fan of Enea. The default is,
well clearly you're just anti-Rossi. It's absurd...
And this week Pecco has been taken to task by the media because of his position on satellite teams being able to to fight with him and being too aggressive for his tastes (sounding exactly like Rossi).
Again, I feel that its not that Pecco won last year but that his Ducati did, he just happens to ride one of the 8 on the grid and it was a works bike with all the support he neede to mask all of his inconsistency and mistakes that season. The odds were in his favour from a marketing POV and seeing where the Yamaha is you can see that it was never really a fair fight for it when fabio was his only percieved threat.
And while we are on the topic: I never really thought we lost much when Rossi retired as he had been a ghost of the guy who could overtake Stoner at the corkscrew (admittedly before my time) by 2015 and when he said 'Marc destroyed this sport' because of his aggressive riding style it was an admission that he was just another 'rode as well' at that point on the grid and that he was denying his past while also preveting more promising talent from taking his seat because of the immense commercial and brand recognition he brought with him both at Yamaha but also by Dorna itself.
I like Bezzechi's riding style (aggressive racer not affraid to swap paint) and to be honest I think he is the most promising of the VR46 squad; everyone else seems to have had sweetheart deals solely via their association to Rossi--Franco is the most resounding one--whereas guys like Iker get one season and then a boot to WSBK.
I get MotoGP (like all racing) is primarily an advertisement driven commercial enterprise, except for 2 hours on a Sunday, but this has gotten to a point that there are so many of them (VR46 riders) that simply expressing a dislike for abject favoritism is considered
anti-Rossi. Hell I didn't think Alex Marquez deserved a ride at HRC either and his time at LCR was abysmal and a total waste of his time in this dangerous sport but I'm also glad to see him doing better on a Ducati all the same. which he got entirely on his own merit from the few podiums he got in that stint.
Marc is a champion and the most successful on the grid by far, he is coming back from several injuries on what is clearly the worst bike on the grid, and while his riding style does lend itself to being more accident-prone its still leagues ahead anyone else's on that grid--and no, I don't want to see another repeat of 2019 even if it further proves my point.
Again, Martin vs Marc was a perfect example of what I want to see, occasionally that leads to contact but I think it's a failure on all of you arm-chair experts to sit there and say you see what that Honda is like and think it can be tamed any better when battling for the top 5 spots, because you have Mir and Rins ending up in the gravel nearly every weekend.
Crazy rumour of the day (month?):
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Husqvarna to field a MotoGP entry in 2024: a rebranded RC16 a la GasGas, with team points going to KTM.
One of the names being bandied around for the Husky ride: MM93...
I'm pretty sure Redbull would remove Miller and put Marc in to keep it's livery on the works team if it came to that; Pedro could ride alongside a seasoned veteran like Jack (whose been on just about every major brand bike) and still gain a lot of experience so it would be a win all around. If it came to that I'm sure it would be Redbull who bought Marc out of his HRC contract so they'd ultimately call the shots, and seeing their most successful rider on Huisqy livery makes absolutely no sense if it were to happen.
I'm torn to be honest, I think Marc is so close to ending his career with every GP he races in when riding the HRC but I also love seeing him slide and try to tame that violent machine while fighting it out with Ducatis--honestly its the only reason why I watch GP anymore, moto3 has been way more entertaining for several seasons now. If he were to get on a KTM it might not be as exciting as spectacle but overall better for his general safety and longevity.
And since he just got engaged this may be the right choice, but again... I'm a fan of Marc because of how far he is willing to go to succeed and the limits he pushes on himself, and subsequently all other riders, which ultimately makes the sport itself evolve. I watched the 2 stroke races when I had the DORNA pass (when it worked) and to be honest, that is completely boring when compared to the Alien era of MotoGP by a large margin that it seems like its an entirely different series: that era could easily be mistaken for WSBK to me.
