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

The iconic Italian leaves a long shadow across the sport that he dominated on track, and off track, for so lo꧙ng.
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 mainstream culture is ong𝄹oing.
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 yet famous: “I 𒀰think not yet, but I hope you kno🔴w him.”
H♊ow can Bagnaia and his fellow riders of his generation turn success into stardom?
“You need peace of mind. Tranquillity. You have to settle down,” Ez🎃peleta said.
“We come from a time when the one who dominated was Valentino, who was an extraordinary rider and a magnificent personalit𝓡y.
“If you review the history of the championship, w🐷hen I started it was said that the Americans were going to end and that there would be nothing left, but a certain Mick Doohan appeared.
“🧸Then it was said that when Doohan was finished 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 strangely have retired 🅰before Valentino [despite] being younger than him.
“And then Marc arrives, who i🀅s a great hero, but lately he has been injured and we are at an impasse.”

The loss of Rossi, MotoGP’s most famous son, at the end of 2021 was likeꦇned to Lionel Messi and Cristiano 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 fantastic score꧙r, but something different from Messi.
“We have many very good guys, who have raced for a very short time and 𒁏fight a lot, and they will come out.
“We have to give them the [support] and everything else they need, and that's up to us, so that this new generati꧑on becomes more popular again.
“168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fabio Quartararo is a ver💖y [well-known] guy in France, which is a big country, he is v🌼ery 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 explod𝓡e into mainstream culture?
“Obviously, it gives an added value to the victory to who wins,” Ezpeleta&ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚnbsp; said. “If🐷, as I hope, Marquez gets good and the bike goes well, he will be causing trouble for sure this year.”

James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from Amer🐈ican sports, to fo⛄otball, to F1.