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Old 13 Jun 2003, 11:10 (Ref:630423)   #7
Rambo
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Rambo should be qualifying in the top 10 on the grid
He was brilliant. Yeah, best bike or not (same argument for Rossi), he still beat the competition, including the other honda riders. And you don't get given the best bike (or car) without Talent. The same argument has been made about Foggy on the Ducati, but Foggy showed he could win races on the Honda as well.

You can't complain that a driver or rider wants to stay with the best ride and dominate. It's nice to see people like Schumacher take on the challenge of bringing Ferrari back to the top, or Corser developing bikes at Aprillia and Foggy-Petronas, but why should they unless they want the challenge?

Having the best ride and lack of competition doesn't mean you'll dominate - look at Muller in the BTCC at Vauxhall. The car dominated, he was for 2 years running the number one driver in the number one team and he still didn't get the title.

Greatest ever? Who knows - it's impossible to compare riders or drivers against others of different eras. Mick was good though - very, very good, by anyone's standards.
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