Well having said that, WHO is the best motorcycle racer?
No doubt in the past ten years I gotta say Rossi has the biggest stones.
Like a true champion part of Rossi's winning ability he he wants more than the other guy and makes it happen. That and he is just damn good.
Who is the best, is'nt that an objective thing, influenced by many factors...
Such as the level of competition at the time (As in the 500cc Championship golden era of Lawson, Rainey, Schwantz, Doohan, Gardner, etc). Look at what Mighty Mick Doohan did, once Lawson, Rainey, Schwantz & co, left the Championship...5 titles, but at a time when the competition was supposedly not so great...
The level of machinery ridden.....Agostini won a billion races, and Championships in ore than one class, but on what was considered to be far superior eqipment to his rivals of the time...Factory MV Agusta's!
Rossi has won many Championships over 3 classes, and has had some reasonable opposition, and has won over 100 GP races over 3 classes, so yes, he definitely has to be right up there...
But we will never know IMHO, who the very best is, or was, or has been, as to do that, we would have to put the likes of Phil Reid, Mike Hailwood, Agostini, Doohan, Rainey, Lawson, Spencer, Ballington, Hansford, and the list goes on, on identical bikes, with identical tyres, all at the height of their powers....now wouldnt that be an awesome tussle!
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