MOTOGP » Rossi 'had his big chance to go to F1'

Rossi got within 1sec of Schuey but the media raves about Schuey getting within 5 secs of Casey. Hmmm

Moto GP will never be as exciting without Rossi ... hope he stays around as long as possible!

And this would just be shameless promotion for the new
Surtees 125 team I guess or just lazy journalism...

[The Yamaha ace has in the past hinted that he intends hanging up his motorcycle helmet no later than the age of 31 or 32.]
With 2 years of losses, then it will be 33 or 34
(or I hope Rossi stay still when he thinks winning is possible)

ah... again, Rossi to F1 issue... tsk tsk

I think, now Rossi is busy enough . He need to put all of his effort and concentratetion to adapt the combination of Bridgestone with Yamaha M1, instead of do racing with F1 car. I hope there is no further distraction for Rossi, since this year IF he doesn't win MotoGP World Championship, he will looks stupid all the time, beaten by 3 times consecutively.

I do agree Pacman - just really wonder why all these stories
are now appearing from Mr Surtees and full respect to his achievements -
I just suspect a healthy amount of spin going on as after all this really is a non story to a large degree!

Let's put 2 and 2 together...

Surtees is in motogp paddock in china to launch new team = surtees doing interviews with press = lots of surtees news all of a sudden.

Not that I'm compalaining, I'm always open to hear the views of the only person to win on two and four wheels!

If all the driver aids are removed then Rossi should move to F1 in about 4 years, then it would be like MotoGP in that if you start 10th you could still win.
Hopefully we will have Rossi with MotoGp for another few years to beat Ago's record.
Meanwhile, when I am waiting for the second WSBK race on Sunday I can switch to F1 and it help me sleep.

You nailed it Team Green and just what I was trying to say in much
fewer words!

maybe it is surtees using spin to advertise is new team.but one thing reading between the lines is this rossi must have done a good job back then to warrant serious intrest from ferrari there loss mgp gain thats why the mans a legend.hes got it all on four wheels or two (waiting for aces reply)

I would have liked to see Rossi take a crack at F1. Could he have been succesful? I think so. Could he have won the F1 championship? We will never know. In the end I don't think he had the motivation to go to F1. Howevere he appears to be very motivated by rally cars, I think he should quit the bikes (he has nothing to prove) and give it a real go.