Can you imagine if he went to f1 and only did moderately instead of dominating MotoGP?

It would be Bernie Pissed off, Michael Schu only a little Pissed off and rest of the pit saying why is he wasting his Time! Qualifying the time as Quick as Rosset or some other pay driver. Via Rossi e moto GP.😊🇮🇹

yeah, imagine if rossi just off from MotoGP for F1 and if rossi have a chance win a championship in F1 rossi will be next john surtees, who can win championship in MotoGP and F1

but rossi was using slick tyres and best setup for laps rather than grooved tyres with race endurance in mind

@@ali09gaming58 how do you know

@@GammaFZ cse they dont use grooved tyres anymore even on older cars that had them, luk at any current laps with older cars, and also the cars are most likely redesigned in terms of engine output for practice fast laps without race endurance config in mind

I think he was more than 1 second slower than MSc.

No what if here. He wasn't fast in the car.

You mean like how Surtees actually did? R.I.P.

Could have also just been an average driver.

Agreed, it would have been awesome, he is plenty quick in a car, he has won the monza wrc round quite a few times

@@KN-lq4zv He has won it in the past, but not when it was an official WRC round. He's done a few endurance races in GT cars but unfortunately hasn't managed a podium yet to my knowledge. Tarmac Rally driving is also extremely different from F1. One of the greatest to ever touch a GP bike though.

Racing as a sport is way better than any game with a ball, especially MotoGP, 40 minutes of racing and that's all, not 2 hours sitting in front of the TV to watch some other sports like Football or Basketball, I just don't have the patience to watch something for that long that's why for me MotoGP >>>>> all.

MotoGP is the pinnacle of motorcycle racing just like F1 is to car racing. F1=MotoGP

@@cnscm2614 - wow ok thanks for the insight guy!! I know that Moto GP is the F1 of bikes. My point is the general person knows who Lewis Hamilton is, they don’t know who Valentino Rossi is because bikes don’t have a following like F1. Hence a bigger world stage “Spotlight”. I didn’t say he wasn’t on a world stage already. He’d be better known by the general population if he was in F1.

@@SimRacingVeteran Funny but i heard of Rossi before Hamilton back in the early 2000s, maybe it's just down to exposure

@@ayakid921 yes same

@@SimRacingVeteran Ham is more known among non-motorsport fans, because of his social presens. Anyone who likes any segment of motorsport, knows who Rossi is. ( as well as, many non-lovers to be fair)

Nope, Rossi in MotoGP is much more than Federer in Tennis and Jordan in Basketball, is more than Ferrari in Formula 1. Probably he is something like Bob Marley in Reggae.

Federer??? you mean Novak

What Schumacher is to Formula 1

Thats a weird way to spell Nadal

You mean Djokovic in tennis ! Who is Federer?

You don't think he would've become a god in motorsport if he was 'also' an F1 champion?

@@TiGGer1098 No, you have to be competing in a sport since a kid to reach god level status. It is extremely rare for a top athlete to be the best in multiple disciplines

@@il-conte Yes but it's been done .... once by John Surtees. And sure Rossie was only half a second off the Ferrari drivers best times, with a decent car, I wouldn't have bet against him.

@@TiGGer1098 There's only one John Surtees.......

True. But F1 is a different beast than motorcycle

@@aaron-damonkassner4715 the man wasn't far off Schumacher's pace

@@aaron-damonkassner4715 mans was fast asf in a car

@@benchaggaresmusic different tires

@Anurag Dutta Surtees also won at the Island.... Rossi didn't.

Yes and no. He could have - and I am not saying should have - but in the history of F1, this is what most champions have done. You prove yourself in a B team which is less risky for the team as well as for the driver as they find their feet with less scrutiny on them. Max started in Toro Rosso, Schumacher in a Jordan, Senna, Mika, Lauda all started in B-teams. Hamilton started in McLaren and almost won in his rookie season but he also had a lot of F1 test miles under his belt before that season. I guess they could have possible done the same for Rossi. Max is considered a prodigy, the biggest of talents by many and Red Bull pride themselves on taking chances and giving young drivers a chance and even they didn't want him in the big team right away (testing in recent spec cars is extremely restricted these days, so that might have influenced that choice). Also, until two years ago historically Ferrari used to never take young drivers and had this whole thing of you having to really earn your chance. So, maybe that also played a part. Needless to say, it would have been cool to see what he could do, and you may very well be right about the politics of it all. Still, one season in a Sauber if he really wanted to do F1 would have been a small price to pay and probably the wise choice if he had wanted it.

@@AntiVaganza yes ik you prove my point looool

@@JRsmith. If I proved it, then your point must be that most of the champs of f1 were not “pure racers” since they actually could live with a bit of time in a b-car. For the fun of it: Your pure racer argument could easily have been used against him, too. If you’re the best and that pure, why not suck up a season in a Sauber in order to get a chance at proving you’re the best? So, no, I didn’t prove your point. As for F1 being full of games, give me a break - any sport at the top level is. And if that’s why he stayed away, I get that. But not that he couldn’t do one season in a b team. And actually, I don’t even think that’s what he is saying - that’s what you’re saying. It seems to be that he was saying there were no clear promises that even if he did well in the first season he would get the A seat the following. And if that’s true, that does sound like a shitty deal. And I would surely understand why he wasn’t comfortable with it.

@@AntiVaganza You are misunderstanding my original message. Valentino with minimal to no karting or open wheel experience going into F1 with a small team is just a recipe for disaster. (Yes he is very talented but still no match) Valentino know’s this, so he has to turn down the money of F1 (politics and sponsors). What you are saying is all correct and yes many sports at top level have some degree of “politics” but none to the degree of F1 where not only talent and performance are taken into account but how many t-shirts you can sell and how much sponsorship $ you can bring to the table. That is just motorsport though.

In MotoGP is something like in F1 Cars. It was a big moment when Rossi was riding for Ducati, but the bike wasn't competitive enough and he switched back to Yamaha.

correct they did a study of performance and 79% of performance came from car and in MotoGP it was 33 %

@@sayan1667 And Lorenzo admitted that in 2018 when the Ducati produced the best bike on the grid for the first time. Since like 2007.

Zzzzzzzz🥱

Sorry about that but you were VERY VERY wrong. You only have 14 likes in almost 5 months and no replies. There are many better engaging comment threads in this comment section. Better luck next time.

Yes Loeb did it in 2007 with Renault and 2008 with Red Bull. With Red Bull. The Red Bull was an RB4 but modified for the next season rule change. So not exactly the same set up. There were 17 drivers and he finished 8th. According to the race engineer from Red Bull (Daniele Casanova) he was really impressive and around the middle of the pack in that day although it was hard to gauge accurately as everyone was driving with different set ups. Seb said himself that it was hard for him to brake at the right time, sometimes he was too early sometimes too late and said that nailing the right timing for the braking he thought it was the hardest thing for someone new to f1. Red Bull was apparently impressed and offered him to race at Abu Dhabi on the next season but the FIA never granted him the "super license".

There's only one John Surtees.......

What a moronic comment.

Yeah, he would be like John Surtees, a bloke who won both on 4 and 2 wheels, an absolute legend.

I do, man that must've been around 2006 or something wasn't it? Is that video still around?

Wait do you mean that Rossi was in that Music video?

But that is only in your head.......

Just like Jeff Ward in motocross. 7 national championships and then switched to supermoto and won a couple more. Then switched to Indy cars and almost won the daytona 500. He was more than competitive...

Meant to say Indy 500...