MotoGp post Valentino Rossi: Marco Melandri has his say.

Marco Melandri: “Valentino Rossi is missing especially in the big numbers, but the show is done by others now. Marquez? He will be a different rider.”

Former MotoGp centaur Marco Melandri in an interview with Sportal.it on the sidelines of the preview screening of the docufilm “Minimoto Revolution, The Genesis of Champions” held at Rimini’s Fulgor Cinema, spoke about the MotoGP in the first year without Valentino Rossi.

“Valentino weighs so much in numbers,” Melandri explained, “he had brought motorcycling into the homes of non-fans. As far as the sport and the show is concerned, I cannot say that MotoGp has lost because it was already so many years that Valentino was not fighting to win the race. It’s other guys, young guys, who are putting on a show. It’s a bit cyclical, like skiing in the Tomba era, now it’s a difficult time for MotoGP but we’ll find another rider of charisma who will still enthuse and raise the numbers again.”

On the return of Marc Marquez: “It’s a ‘do or die’ surgery, the brain doesn’t forget, the rider who used to make those incredible saves won’t be back, but he will have other characteristics, more calculating, more ‘ant’. The chances to play for a World Championship he has, we have to see if the bike will be on the level.”