I am not the biggest Marc Marquez fan. I won't deny that the MotoGP champion is one of the greatest of all times, having just secured his 9th world championship—7 if you're just counting in the premier class—but he was never my guy. Sorry, Marquez fans.
I'm getting to the age where I look more fondly at those I grew up watching, i.e. the Stoners, the Pedrosas, and the Haydens, the dudes that just went out there without aero, without traction control, without ride height devices and left it all out on the line. It's the same way that I now look back at the V8-era of Formula 1 and how I could hear those cars from two miles away reverberating in my chest as they flew through the back straight at Circuit of the Americas.
But there was one great who took a place above everyone, and that was Valentino Rossi who is, arguably, one of the greatest, too. In fact, there are those who'd argue that he was above Marquez. I know, I was one of them. The key phrase, however, is was, because at present, Rossi is acting like a petty asshole because, apparently, he doesn't like that Marquez has tied his 9-time championship record.
