@SattelliteKid
It isnt fact I was talking about. Some ppl like to hear this.

@Xionite

I am one of his many fans. Many/Most of us are...
Because of him I came to know about this wonderful sport.

Rossi is MotoGP, and MotoGP is Rossi. (As ' Abhii46 ' said)

There has to be something, many selected Rossi as their favourite... we Respect all the Riders.

We all are also 'The MotoGP' fans, otherwise we wont be here.

+46
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Finally the Doctor delivers; much to the relief of the Ducati team who were hopelessly wandering about, trying to find the right pace. Hope that they are back on the track with the machine cause if they are, we are gonna see those epic Stoner Vs Rossi Vs Lorenzo battles every race.

Casey's retirement this season is a big shock for his fans including me. I was hoping to watch him in action the next year at the BIC. Reason for me to book tickets to one of this year's asian venue

Pity that both the Tech 3 riders crashed out, I think Cal is the rider to watch in the future. On the rumor mill, Casey's seat is gonna be vacant; how about Rossi teaming up with Honda for 2013?

I know Braumabull..it wasn't for you

wow !! No. - 46....

i will be a happy man for the whole week.

finally...finally, he is on podium after a looong break...with some help from rain gods...


thats not gonna happen .. not atleast in next race... this was a wet race...for rossi to start consistently from 1st or 2nd row, it will take another 2-3 races, after that yes, we can say.....better results will follow.

Missed out Rossi's Press meet after the finish. Any links pls..?

Wait for it to come on youtube.

motogp was better & excitement at the time of doohan. rossi just made it colorful. that's all.. you can still find gp videos of doohan.. give it a try and you will see rossi is using his style

That's what i am saying.. he made himself famous not motogp he did mentor and grooming Rossi as he was not able to get the hang of NSR500 as it was very powerful bike. it was a V4 making 200bhp and they weight of the bike was 130km which is similar to pulsar 150 or the old hero honda CBZ lol

It was Honda who requested doohan to help him since he was not able to adjust.. but cant blame rossi since he moved was from a 90bhp Apprilia to 200bhp Honda V4 with lot of Torque.. but from 500 to RCV was easy for rossi

A good way to understand this is by watching Doohan videos.. Just see doohans style an then watch rossi riding a nsr in 2000 and then watch stoner riding bike.. all 3 have same style but the dad was Doohan. a forgotten king of racing

I think i didnt put it the right way.. i am sorry i meant i cannot say rossi is the only rider who can be so.. i was saying Rossi lorz and stoner are equal. that's all.

if stoner was riding on the streets, doohan would not have seen him to bring him up. Stoner was in to racing and doohan sported the potential in him and groomed him for motogp. motogp is a special class and if you see most of the superbike champions fail in GP because these bikes are different..

its needs lot of practice and help from people to learn
Colin is a very good example.. he was the best in SUPERBIKE and he was on a v2 VTRSP2 but till date he has not learned to push the bike to the limit not able to catch leaders...

nice example is Kawasaki wining one race in their entire career.. it was raining and all the others fall off and kawazaki was rode to win coz he was larking around slowly and engine was not powerful enough to cause a wheel spin..

Exactly my point is rossi is not the only best rider. Stoner and Lorenzo are also good. but if you talk about fire... Rossi comes first then Lorenzo and 3rd Stoner

Satellite.kid if you are saying all 3 are good.. then i am with you

out of the highlights, did anyone notice or see Julian Simon in Moto 2 crossing the finish line pushing his bike and still picking the points for 12 position.

I literally ran for around 20-30 meters to cross the finish line in 13th

Awesome display or determination

That was Julian Simon.

I think the commentators took Toni's name but it was Julian Simon.

@sridar1983: Yes Rossi, Stoner and Lorenzo are all great riders, and I must add that Rossi is greater among the three. You just cannot ignore a man's success and the fans he has made across different countries. Rossi's fan following has been unmatched for a very long time now. There are lot of people following motogp for many years now (from the time of Kevin, Doohan etc. as you say), and I can safely assume that among them many people would rate Rossi as one of the greatest riders of all time. You seem to be missing the point here. I do not understand when you imply that Rossi made fans for himself but not for motogp, do you realize that it's the riders who make the sport and not the other way around? If/When you do not have riders like Rossi who can give such a spectacle to the crowd then what good is MotoGP otherwise? MotoGP will only be half as interesting when there are no riders like Rossi. A similar example is Sachin Tendulkar. I am one of those who watch cricket mainly because of Sachin Tendulkar otherwise I do not really care for that game much. So you see, it's the sportsman who makes the sport. Do not take away their glory. Without these guys their sport would be nothing much to watch and remember! Moreover, you may have your own opinion about Rossi's riding style or his inspiration or whatever, but honestly, is it even worth giving a thought! Rossi has achieved the level of greatness which will be hard to achieve for even Lorenzo and Stoner. Well forget Stoner now, he's going to go and we'll never know what he could have achieved! I said in one of my previous posts as well, Rossi is a phenomena and one needs to be more than just a brilliant racer to achieve his level of greatness. As a human I run on emotions, I cry and get insanely happy when Rossi wins. There are many people like me, how many other racers can attract the emotional outburst from their fans like Rossi does? You may agree or disagree.

@sridhar: lets put it this way. What if every single week all the riders are completely new racing each other in GP, then would you think the game would be as interesting as it is today? And the people who say that sport is bigger the riders itself would loose interest following Moto GP. It is surely about riders that makes the sport grow within us..

Sport as such cannot become as success as it would become with individual personalities..

Thanks for the insight mate...

so basically when you Rossi, Lorz and Stoner are equal..

You are actually saying that Agostini, Kevin Shwantz, Mic Doohan, Wanye Rainey, Kenny Roberts, Valentino Rossi, Jorge Lorenzo and Casey Stoner are all equal!

Doesn't sound right to me..