Sport is all about rivalry, so what happens if all the competitors in your favourite motor sport championship are now friends with each other?
A few years ago MotoGP endured (or enjoyed, depending on your point of view) some of its most vicious rivalries. And most of them involved Valentino Rossi.
Rossi was a genius at wooing fans – smiling and waving at the camera, like MotoGP was just a game to him. That’s what made people love him so much. And yet while he waved with one hand, he was sharpening knives with