Very interesting, I agree with JT, VR was a proper character and put on a great show on and off the track. I think Simoncelli would have been much the same but his life was cut short.
I never took to Marc until he sat on a Ducati and took it to the others, now on a factory bike he's really sticking to the rest of the field, I wish him well.
As time and technology moves forward champions come and go but for me there is only one GOAT, Valantino. In F1 that man is Schumacher.