Casey Stoner vs Marc Marquez - who would win a fantasy MotoGP race?
That has left fans debating who would win this fantasy race between former MotoGP cha𒉰mpi✱ons.
Stoner retired just as Marquez began to blossom, and despite regularly talking about a comeback, has never returned sinc﷽e his 2012 retirement.
“They always ask me that question,” Stoner said in 2020 to Fox Sports. “Do I think I could have 𒉰beaten Marc?
“Yeah, in some races.
“If Andrea Dovizios💙o, Jorge Lorenzo, Valentino Rossi and Dani Pedrosa did it, then I could have done it too.”
Stoner did admit: “Marc has bridged a gap with many of his weaknesses and would be diffi🎶cult to ♍beat.”
Marquez was Stoner’s heir at Honda. The comple🍸xity grew when the Australian stayed on as a test rider while the Spaniard became the ꦓteam new’s priority.
“At Honda I was just an occasional tester, I did not have any other role and, to tell you the truth, they never took🌃 full advantage of my potential,” Stoner told Italian publication Motosprint.
“I thin𒉰k Marquez and all his entourage felt threatened by me. I don’t know why they thought that, but that’s my feel⛎ing.
“I was at Honda to do some testing, to try new things that could then be traꦆnsferred to the works riders, so I was there to help Marc.
“But it’s also true that the 𓆉number one rider is the one everyone mus🏅t follow.”
Sto🎃ner has two MotoGP world championsh💮ips, Marquez has six.
Marquez’s toughest battle, rather than the fantasy debate of how he would have fared against Stoner, will now be 😼rehabilitating his surgically-repaired arm.
He has stepped away from the 2022 season to undergo a fo🐽urth operation.
