Read all news articles for Valentino Rossi Rossi, Agostini, Hailwood. About the biggest of the big?
Monday, October 31, 2011
In a recent interview with Rai, Valentino Rossi is placed in the top three riders in the history of motorcycling, with Mike Hailwood and Giacomo Agostini. Legitimate views from high pulpit, who has won 9 world titles to date. Actually, almost never (if ever) before the drivers are given their own report card ....
What counts, what are the parameters to determine the rankings? The world championships? In that case, why forget the 9 or 13 of Angel Nieto Charles Ubbiali? Worth less than it won in the "small" displacements? Count the "myths", the protagonists of the great duels? In this case, where does the first Italian winner in TT (1937) Omobono Tenni, the British considered the "best rider in the world"?
And of Nuvolari and Varzi duels, Guth and Woods, and Meier Seraphim before the war, then Ruffo and Ambrosini, Duke and Liberati, Graham and Admiral and Lomas and Masetti, Surtees (only one in history to have won world in motion with the MV Agusta 500 and Formula 1 with Ferrari) and Lomas and McIntyre, Casting and Ubbiali, Hailwood and Hocking? Pasolini and Agostini, Read, and Saarinen? On the way up to the likes of Roberts, Spencer, Sheene, Schwantz, Doohan, etc.?
In a recent interview with Rai, Valentino Rossi is placed in the top three riders in the history of motorcycling, with Mike Hailwood and Giacomo Agostini. Legitimate views from high pulpit, who has won 9 world titles to date. Actually, almost never (if ever) before the drivers are given their own report card ....
What counts, what are the parameters to determine the rankings? The world championships? In that case, why forget the 9 or 13 of Angel Nieto Charles Ubbiali? Worth less than it won in the "small" displacements? Count the "myths", the protagonists of the great duels? In this case, where does the first Italian winner in TT (1937) Omobono Tenni, the British considered the "best rider in the world"?
And of Nuvolari and Varzi duels, Guth and Woods, and Meier Seraphim before the war, then Ruffo and Ambrosini, Duke and Liberati, Graham and Admiral and Lomas and Masetti, Surtees (only one in history to have won world in motion with the MV Agusta 500 and Formula 1 with Ferrari) and Lomas and McIntyre, Casting and Ubbiali, Hailwood and Hocking? Pasolini and Agostini, Read, and Saarinen? On the way up to the likes of Roberts, Spencer, Sheene, Schwantz, Doohan, etc.?
Share story
0 comments: