Max Biaggi, Sete Gibernau, Casey Stoner, Jorge Lorenzo, Marc Marquez... Valentino Rossi has had plenty of title rivals during his 18 seasons in 500cc/MotoGP.

But if one of those rivalries was to be made into a film, such as the James Hunt and Niki Lauda confrontation immortalised in Rush, who would it be?

That was the fan question put to Rossi in Thursday's press conference at Circuit of the Americas, to which the nine time world champion replied:

"Maybe with Biaggi, I don't know... Was funny because also we had a lot of funny stories out of the track! The theme song? Sincerely difficult to say... You decide!"