Márquez dribla al Mundial: si le impiden celebrar su 9º título con el nº 9, lo hará con el nº 1
www.elperiodico.com
No lo han comunicado, ni explicado, pero quien debe saberlo ya lo sabe. El Mundial de motociclismo ha decidido minimizar los títulos de las categorías inferiores y potenciar los cetros de 500cc y MotoGP. Parece que los norteamericanos de Liberty Media quieren que todo empiece este viernes, olvidándose de los 76 años anteriores.

This must be a joke? They are not going to count riders’ titles from Moto2/250 and Moto3/125 classes. Therefore Rossi will go down to 7 titles, Dani Pedrosa will have 0.

I’ve written to ask Liberty Media what they are playing at. Of course in polite terms.

What do you all think of this change?

  • WordNerdOPMEnglish
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    10 days ago

    Translation (2/2)

    ‘They are not the ones who write the history of motorcycling, they are not the ones who decide who deserves to be nominated world champion and who does not, they are not the ones who propose a single gallery of world champions,’ said Sito Pons, two-time world champion in the “two and a half” category, to EL PERIÓDICO when he heard and was stunned by the new World Championship story.

    ‘History is written step by step, year by year, and the riders who risked their lives to become world champions, whatever category they were in, will continue to be so for all of us, of course. Ángel (Nieto) will continue to have 12+1 world titles, Aspar four and me two. I repeat, whether you like it or not, that is written in gold letters in the history books. Apart from that, I think what they are proposing is outrageous.’

    It is very difficult, very complicated, for the great champions to dare to comment on the strategy of Liberty Media, the new owners or managers of the World Motorcycling Championship. This newspaper, for example, has not managed to get champions such as Jorge Martínez “Aspar” to comment on the matter, among other things because the former Valencian rider owns one of the largest and most important teams in the World Championship paddock.

    Not even Marc Márquez, whom the legendary Dr Costa, pioneer in the creation of the World Championship Clinica Mobile in 1977, described last Monday in Misano as ‘the emperor of the World Championship’, wants to get involved in trouble and absurd discussions on the subject. If he has been advised not to celebrate his ninth title with the number 9, the champion from Cervera (Lleida) has decided to avoid controversy and, according to El Periódico, his lucky number, his number in the celebration, on T-shirts and banners will be number 1, meaning ‘I am number 1’. And that’s the end of the controversy. However, Márquez has completely ruled out using the number 7, as “ET”, “the Cannibal”, continues to believe, like all champions in history, that he has earned his nine world titles with blood, sweat and tears and that no one will erase his first, costly and valuable two titles with a stroke of a pen.

    The decision regarding the championship is not a trivial one, as it means completely changing the narrative on which the backbone of a World Championship has been built, one that has always, always had different categories in each of its Grand Prix races. It is clear that the smaller engine sizes acted, so to speak, as the opening acts for the “kings” of 500cc before and MotoGP now, but the feeling that their world titles were, well, world titles has always existed, in the same way that no one, absolutely no one, has ever considered those smaller titles to be on a par with the titles in the “premier” category, which, moreover, is no longer called “premier”.