“When Nicky Hayden won the World Championship in 2006, all the manufacturers could build good bikes with good power and control,” says Randy Mamola, a four-time runner-up in the 500c World Championship and certifiable MotoGP legend. “The bikes were comfortable and had big and torquey engines and the tires went along with it. In 2007, MotoGP went to the all-new 800cc bikes and then came limitations. A rider lie Casey Stoner could ride the bike as fast as he could and not spin the rear tire. It was like the bikes were put on rails. When I raced it was battlefield. It is a battlefield in 2018. It is just that the weapons are different. We had a loaded gun and they have a gun with a muzzle on it. We were gladiators then and the riders are gladiators now. It’s amazing at what both the riders and bikes can do It’s incredible. I mean the bikes are works of technology and enterprise. But still, there was nothing like the 500s.”
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