go_Rubens wrote:Similar to the situation in MotoGP, where Marquez is leading due to the injuries of Jorge Lorenzo and Dani Pedrosa. If those injuries didn't limit Pedrosa and Lorenzo, the title race would be much closer than it is now. In fact, Marquez wouldn't be leading if Lorenzo or Pedrosa weren't injured. Dani had it until his crash knocked him out of contention essentially.
What I'm saying here is Marquez doesn't deserve the title unless he wins a straight fight. Right now, he doesn't deserve it through others' misfortunes.
No.
First of all, its all too easy to say that he's only leading the championship because of others misfortunes, but you have to put yourself in the position to capitalise on misfortune in the first place. Marquez has more than done that, which is impressive regardless (how many riders do you know that could handle the pressure of fighting one of the sports greatest for the title?); the fact that he's only in his first season of MotoGP is even more amazing.
Also, Marquez has proven himself more than capable of fighting with and beating the likes of Lorenzo, Rossi and Pedrosa, the first two of which will undoubtedly be remembered as two of the best of all time, if not THE two best of all time.
Finally, you say Pedrosa had it under control before his injury; its one thing to lead a championship, winning it is a completely different ballgame (see Lewis Hamilton 2007, Manchester United 2012, Mark Webber 2010 etc). There's no guarantee that Pedrosa would be leading the title fight if he hadn't been injured; in fact, knowing Pedrosa, he'd have fluffed it somehow anyway
So basically, Marquez is easily a worthy champion.
). And KV, I don't expect improvements.
