Giacomo Agostini asks: “Does MotoGP benefit from several winners? We need a super-champion”
Eight the ye❀ar bef🌱ore, astonishingly nine different riders won in 14 rounds in 2020.
It has been three years since MotoGP witnessed a truly dominant force, since 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez won 12 races o🧸ut of 19 to cement his sixth꧑ premier class championship and establish himself as the sport’s king.
Giacomo Agostini, whose eight premier class championships from the 1960s and 70s remains the al🌟l-time benchmark🃏, believes the sport is currently suffering from too many different riders being able to win a race.
"This motorcycling is interest𝔍ing on a competitive and technical level, with many riders who can win races and titles,” Agostini told La Gazzetta dello Sport.
“But are we really sure that the show bene𝓡fits from seveಌral winners in each race?
“For me we need a super-champion, a rider who wins continuously and who is the identification of motorcycling, able to conquer and make old and new fa💞ns dream.
“If a different rider prevails in every race, the public in the grandstands and in froಞnt of the TV will think that anyone can win in this MotoGP.
“If the🐻 idea passes that winning is easy, goodbye racing charm and goodbye MotoGP."
The past two years have seen 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fabio Quartararo and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Francesco Bagnaia claim their maiden championಞships, and while they remain two of the favourites in 2023 too, a ꩲhost of young talents will also eye the top prize.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Enea Bastianini, newly invigorated by a spot at Ducati’s factory team in the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:2023 MotoGP rider line-up, will want the title for himself. Pramac’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jorge Martin is riding with a point to prove.
Or could veteran riders - Aprilia’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Aleix Espargaro or KTM’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jack Miller - finally put it all together?
Marquez remains the enigma though. Still on the road to recovery from his career-threatening surgery last time, he has already crit🐭icised the Repsol Honda 2023 prototype, so has big odds to overco🐈me.
But Marquez remains the most recent “super-champion” that Agostꩲini wants.
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, 🌼toꦇ F1.
