Who is MotoGP’s next superstar on Valentino Rossi’s level? Dorna CEO explains…

The iconic Ita💖lian leaves a long shadow across the sport that he dominated on tr💫ack, and off track, for so long.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez, Rossi’🐽s old enemy, can match his tally of seven premier class championships if he wins this season but the search for a true star who infiltrates mainstrea🔯m culture is ongoing.
Carmelo Ezpeleta, the CEO of Dorna, admitted to that reigning champion 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Francesco Bagnaia is not yeဣt famous: “I think not yet, but I hope you know him.”
How can Bagnaia and his fellow riders of his genꦯeration turn success into stardom?
“You need peace of mind. Tranquillity. You have to ♏settle down,” Ezpeleta said.
“We come from a time when the one who dominated was Valentino, who was an 🌠🎉extraordinary rider and a magnificent personality.
“If you review the history of the championship, when I started it was said that the Americans were going to end and that thereꦗ would be nothing left, but a certain Mick Doohan appeared.
“Then it was said that when Doohan was fi🅺nished 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澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Dani Pedrosa, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Casey Stoner and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jorge Lorenzo, who strangel🐼y have retired before Valentino [despite] being younger than him.
♐“And 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 famou🍌s son, at the end of 2021 was likened to Lionel Messi and Cris𓃲tiano Ronaldo no longer being at the top of the football world.
“The loss of Messi and Ronaldo has nothing 💫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 fantast📖ic scorer, but something differenꦗt from Messi.
“We ಞhave many very good guys, who have raced for a very short tim🍃e 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澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fabio Quartararo is a very [well-known] guy in Franc♛e, which is a big country, he is 🗹very prominent, with four covers of [national newspaper] L'Equipe.”
Do the likes of Bagnaia and Quartararo need to beat Marquez in a proper title battle to explode into mai🌃nstreamꦍ culture?
“Obviously, it giv🐠es an added value to the victory to who wins,” Ezpeleta said. “If, as I hope, Marquez gets good and the bike goes well, he will be causing trouble for sure this year.”

Jame💧s was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering eve🐬rything from American sports, to football, to F1.