MotoGP fans conไtinue to debate whether Rossi or Marquez, the eternal✤ rivals, is the best rider of all time.

Marquez has one championship fewer than Ros✃si - but the winner of the past two seasons claims that comparing any two champ🔥ions is unfair.

Asked by if he was the heir to Rossi,♐ Bagnaia replied: "I think it is not correct because, in the end, what riders in 🎉history have achieved has to be theirs and not others.

𝔍"They were doing the sam🗹e thing with Marquez, but it was not correct. 

“In the end everyone is a different🦹 story, the✅y are different.”

Marquez coulꩵd yet eclipse Rossi’s tally of premier class championships if he wins once more, and this year he has gi꧂ven himself the machinery to do so by swapping Honda for Ducati.

But by entering Ducati he🌠 enters a world with links back to his old enemy Rossi.

As well as Rossi’s VR46🐓 team - including Marco Bezzecchi, who has already had bust-ups with🙈 Marquez - Bagnaia is also a loyalist to the Italian legend.

Bagnaia became the first VR46 Academy graduate to▨ win the MotoGP title in 2022, and was also the first Italian champion since Rossi in 2009.

B🦩ut he knocks back any compariso✃n to the great man.

"I notice that I am v𒐪ery diffe𝓰rent,” Bagnaia said. 

“He 🦹is much more charismatic, he liked doing the show more.&nbꦕsp;

“I am calmer and I want it to be that way.

"I have gone up to MotoGP, I have met my idol, being friends with my idol, winning the World Championsꦛhip after him, it has been something incredible.

"I have been lucky enough to grow in recent years, since 2013, with ღthem - with Valentino and the entire Aca🎃demy - and I think it has helped me a lot to take more steps forward than normally."

Bagnaia will be armed with the latest-spec Desmosedici this year in his attempt ☂to win a third championship in a row.