The iconic Italian leaves a long shadow across th❀e sport that he dominated on track, and🔯 off track, for so long.

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Marc Marquez, Rossi’s old enemy, can match his tally of seven premier class championships if he wiꦰns this season but the search for a true star who infiltrates mainstream culture is ongoing.

Carmelo Ezpeleta, the CEO of Dorna, admitted to that reigning champion 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Francesco Bagnaia is not yet famous: “I think nওot yet, but I hope you know him.”

How can Bagnaia and his ꦐfellow riders of his generation turn success into star✤dom?

“You need peace of mind. Tranquillity. You have to settle down,” Ezpeleta saidꦇ.&nbs♊p;

“We come from a time w൲hen the one who dominated was Valentino, who was an extraordinary rider and a magnificent personality. 

“If you review the histor💫y of the championship, when I started it was said that the Americans were ✱going to end and that there would be nothing left, but a certain Mick Doohan appeared. 

“Then it was said that when Doohan was finished there would be nothing to do, and there were two years in which Alex Crivillé𝄹 and Kenny Roberts Jr. won, who were꧅ not super [well-known]. 

“But then Rossi appeared, who raced against guys like 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Dani Pedrosa, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Casey Stoner and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Jorge Lorenzo, who strangely have retired before Valentino [despite] 𒈔being younger th🌸an him. 

“An🍬d then Marc arrives, who is a great hero, but lately he has been injured and we are at an🅘 impasse.”

The loss of Rossi, MotoGP’s most famous son, at the end of 2021 was likened to Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo no longer being at the top of the football ℱworld.

“The loss of Messi and Ronaldo h☂as nothinꦯg to do with what has happened to us,” Ezpeleta said. 

“For me, Messi is a genius and the best in history,🍰 and Ronaldo is a fantastic scorer, but something different f🍬rom Messi. 

“We have many v𝐆ery good guys, who have raced for a very short time and fight a lot, and they will come out. 

“We have to give them the [support] and everything else they ne🐈ed, and that's up to us, so that this new generation becomes more popular again. 

“168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Fabio Quartararo is a very [well-known] guy in France, which is a big country, h⛎e is very prominent, with four covers of [national newspaper] L'Equipe.”

Do the likes of Bagnaia and Quartararo need to beat Marquez in a p🙈roper title battle to e🅰xplode into mainstream culture?

“Obviously, it gives an added value to the victory to who wins,” Ezpeleta  said. “If, as I📖 hope, Mar♔quez gets good and the bike goes well, he will be causing trouble for sure this year.”