Marc Marquez is considered to have destroyed the era of Valentino Rossi’s glory in MotoGP. Presence The Baby Alien while paving the way for other potential riders.
Rossi is a name attached to MotoGP in the early 2000s period. The Doctor managed to become consecutive world champions in 2001-2005, and added two other titles in 2008-2009.
Rossi’s career began to fade since moving from Yamaha to Ducati in 2011. He briefly returned to the Tala Fork team in 2013, but failed to add to his world title until his retirement in 2021.
2013 marked the debut of Marc Marquez in the MotoGP premier class. MM93 immediately became world champion in its first season and managed to dominate MotoGP in the mid-2010s.
After the success in the 2013 season, Marquez again won the championship in 2014 and 2016-2019. The Repsol Honda rider experienced a decline in performance after being hit by a broken arm and double vision impairment in 2020.
These injuries made him absent for a long time and it was difficult to compete in MotoGP until now. He was unable to compete with young riders such as Francesco Bagnaia to Fabio Quartararo.
Marco Melandri appreciated the brilliant achievements inscribed by Marquez in his career. The 2002 250cc class champion judged that the MM93 had succeeded in breaking the dominance of Valentino Rossi.
Valentino Rossi vs Marc Marquez on the track. (Photo: Lluis Gene/AFP) |
“Marquez ended the era of Valentino Rossi and opened another one. In many ways Marc is like Valentino: From a sporting point of view he is an asshole and on the track he has repeated everything Vale has done before,” Melandri said, quoted from Crash.
Marc Marquez still has a long career to match the record of world champion Valentino Rossi. The 29-year-old rider has eight championship titles, only one title away from The Doctor.
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