Foggy: Rossi's special - but the others aren't.
Four-times World Superbike champion Carl Fogarty believes that, Valentino Rossi aside, the current MotoGP ten top is no more talented than their equivalent in the World Superbike championship.
Crash.net caught up with Carl following the launch of an exclusive competition to win a holiday of a life-time to the Monza WSBK round, and asked Foggy for his opinion on the never-ending MotoGP vs. World Superbike debate - and specifically if he believed there was such a thing as a 'Superbike rider' or a 'GP rider'?
Four-times World Superbike champion Carl Fogarty believes that, Valentino Rossi aside, the current MotoGP ten top is no more talented than their equivalent in the World Superbike championship.
Crash.net caught up with Carl following the launch of an exclusive competition to win a holiday of a life-time to the Monza WSBK round, and asked Foggy for his opinion on the never-ending MotoGP vs. World Superbike debate - and specifically if he believed there was such a thing as a 'Superbike rider' or a 'GP rider'?
"In my opinion if you can ride a motorcycle you should be able to get on a motorcycle and ride it at whatever level," replied Carl. "It does frustrate me to see some Superbike riders going (to MotoGP) sometimes as it's always the wrong ones that go, it's always the wrong ones that get the opportunity."
"There is only one rider in MotoGP that I would give the time of day to and that is Rossi," he added later in the interview. "The rest, there is nothing between them. Between Gibernau and James Toseland there is nothing. It's just right package, right place, right time, which championship you are in and what you have around you to make you a good rider.
"The rest are on the same level and Rossi is just a step above everyone else. There is no difference between the lot of them really - from second place to tenth in MotoGP or from second to tenth place in Superbike," Foggy declared.
The full interview with Fogarty will be available on Crash.net Radio from Wednesday January 19.
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2004 MotoGP top ten: Valentino Rossi, Sete Gibernau, Max Biaggi, Alex Barros, Colin Edwards, Makoto Tamada, Carlos Checa, Nicky Hayden, Loris Capirossi and Shinya Nakano.
2004 WSBK top ten: James Toseland, Regis Laconi, Noriyuki Haga, Chris Vermeulen, Frankie Chili, Garry McCoy, Steve Martin, Leon Haslam, Troy Corser and Marco Borciani.
Peter has been in the paddock for 20 years and has seen Valentino Rossi come and go. He is at the forefront of the Suzuki exit story and Marc Marquez’s injury issues.
