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Rossi has won five MotoGP championships with Michelin and two with Bridgestone. “I was strong, fast and competitive in 2018. This year he’s struggling just to get inside the top ten and he’s already crashed as many times as he did in the whole of the 2017 season. Last year he scored a podium at Jerez and was in the podium fight at Misano and Barcelona. Rossi ended last year 15th and currently stands 19th in this year’s championship, with one tenth-place finish, an 11th, 12th, 14th, two 16th places and two crashes from the first eight races. Instead the American rode bargain-basement CRT bikes, powered by dog-slow (relatively speaking) superbike engines, which put him 20th, 14th and 22nd overall in his final three seasons. Edwards didn’t have Rossi’s superstar profile, so he wasn’t able to command factory bikes during the twilight of his MotoGP career. Sign up Subscribeīattling with rookies Luca Marini and Enea Bastianini at Sachsenring on Sunday Sign-up now for access to a limited number of articles.