Grand Prix motorcycle racing legend Mick Doohan says Valentino Rossi winning this year’s MotoGP title would be the best outcome for the sport. The popular Italian is currently just 14 points clear of team-mate Jorge Lorenzo with 100 left to play for in the final four races, setting up an epic battle that continues this weekend in Japan. Rossi is aiming to win an eighth premier class crown and his first since 2009, an outcome that Doohan, who won five consecutive 500cc titles in the 1990s, believes would deliver a major boost to MotoGP. “It would be good for the sport, it would certainly resonate through,” Doohan told Motorsport.com when asked who he thinks will take the 2015 crown. ...
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