How would the current crop of MotoGP stars cope if they were transported back in time to race the formidable 500cc two-strokes th🍸at ruled the premier-class until 2002?

Marc Marquez, Joan Mir, Alex Marquez and Alex Rins all said they wou💃ld welcome the chance to try a 500cc machine, which offered none of the sophisticated electronics that help riders control the current, much more powerful, 1000cc four-strokes.

“Kevin Schwantz is one of my idols," said Suzuki's reign꧒ing MotoGP champion Joan Mir. "Although I was not even born yet, I have watched many videos of him and his riding style was so spectacular.

"I would have liked to test those 500s without a doubt, but evolution has brought us 🎃to the current situation where the bikes offer more help, but they are also m꧙uch faster and more effective.

"Every era is diff♔erent and they are all go🧸od. It’s not a matter of better times, they’re just different eras.”

But team-mate Alex Rins, who revealed he has already asked to t🧸ry a 500cc Suzuki, felt riding talent played a bigger role in the outcome of the two-stroke races.

"Those riders from the 500 era were brutal! I would love to try a 500 with a two-stroke engine without electronic aids and, in fact, I have already asked Suzuki if they would let us try one, but I think💜 it would be very difficult to race with those bikes," Rins said.

"I think the competition would be less equal because with these bikes you need much more riding tale🉐nt than what a four-stroke demands, without a doubt, the🌠re would be bigger differences between riders on track.”

While only s🐽ix riders finished within 14s of the race winner at the Jerez 500cc race in 2001, that same time ga🐽p covered the top ten in MotoGP last Sunday.

Ei💞ght-time world champion Marc𒐪 Marquez rides in a modern version of the Repsol colours first made famous by five-time champion Mick Doohan on the NSR500.

“Riding a Honda NSR 500, I think it would be very difficult at the beginn🌱ing, as those motorcycles would feel very physical," said Marquez, speaking ahead of his third race since a nine-month layoff for 😼a broken arm.

"All riders in the modern era have already grown up with electronics, something that he꧋lps a lot but🥂 also makes things difficult depending on the case.

🧜"Anyway, I think it would be nice to compete in an old school race with those old moto💦rcycles because the fans would surely enjoy it."

Younger brother and fellow Estrella G🍎alicia 0,0 backed rider Alex added: "I would say that 500cc is another era with a different riding dynamics. Everything would change a lot and without electronic h♋elp it would be more complicated.

"We are evolving, logicall💛y, there is more techn♛ology because bikes go faster and faster and all those new solutions are necessary.

"It's just a different kind of approach to the competition and it can't be 🌌compared, but I would love to try a 500 and make a race with it.”

Valentino Rossi is the o🦂nly remining rider on the current premier-class grid to have raced in the 500cc era, in🔯 2000 and 2001.