Marc Marquez has more talent than Valentino Rossi or Casey Stoner if you “put feelings aside”, says Luca Salvadori

M📖arquez will return in 2023 aiming for a seventh premier class championship which would draw him level with his enemy Rossi’s tally.
But he has alread🐬y won the battle to be remembered as the sport’s best, says Salvadori, the MotoE rider who has shot to prominence as a YouTuber.
He explains: “Stoner and Marquez, the most🐼 talented 🔴riders that MotoGP has ever seen.
“Rossi is my favourite rider, and it is thanks to him that I started riding. Tᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚhe day I received [a book autographed by Rossi] was the best day of my life.
“But sometimes you need to put feelings aside and look at what happens o♎n track with detaℱchment.
“We must look at how some results were achieved.
“From my point of view, Valenꦰtino was the most ‘complete’ rider. So, the strongest of them all.
“If I were to as🀅k: ‘What about talent? Is he as good as Stoner or Marquez?’
“Not really.

“Between these two, who is the strongest? To me, Mar✃quꦰez is.
“Because of the feeling he gave♑ me while watching him ride. Because of the pure and crystal-clear talent he showed.
“🌺Every time Marquez rode, before he got 𝕴hurt, he thought about how he could destroy his opponents. And he did it well. The confidence he demonstrated, and his superiority on track, were amazing.
“There were🐠 three times Marquez proved he was the strongest rider ever. It was almost non-human, the competitiveness and nastiness🍒 he put in.
“Argentina 2018&n𒀰bsp; - I still have goosebumps. I was an𓄧gry at how he behaved but I admired his talent.
“Moto2 Valencia 2012 - he hit Simone Corsi hard, like an assass𒉰in, during practice! He started last and won💟.
“Estoril 2010 - Marquez starts last, r🌳ecovers and wins the title.
“Marquez is controversial. In🧜 terms of sportsmanship he has often done wrong. But you can’t question his talent.”

James was a sports ♛journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.