RiderTua.com – The term Alien was coined by Colin Edwards in 2009 to refer to a quartet of elite riders: Valentino Rossi, Casey Stoner, Dani Pedrosa and Jorge Lorenzo. In 2009, Colin Edwards considered that Valentino Rossi, Jorge Lorenzo, Casey Stoner and Dani Pedrosa were 4 riders who were difficult to reach in MotoGP. Edwards said at that time that he was not sure he could reach the speed of the four riders ahead of him in the race, but Edwards wanted to give himself a chance to be P-5 in the championship standings and he has achieved that.
There was the 4-Alien Era, Baby Alien.. Now Little Boy Alien..
Casey Stoner made a surprise with his announcement, during the 2012 French racing event. Where he would hang up his helmet at the end of 2012. One of the members of the 4 aliens confided that the reason why he was retiring was because he felt he no longer found passion in the MotoGP event. The next alien to hang up his helmet was Dani Pedrosa, who decided to hang up his helmet as a regular rider for the Gold Wing Team at the end of the 2018 MotoGP season after 12 years with Honda. Next was Jorge Lorenzo. On November 14 2019, he decided to hang up his helmet due to injury. the severity he has suffered since MotoGP Assen 2019. Lorenzo decided to withdraw from this most prestigious racing event after being at Honda. And the last member of the 4 Aliens to hang up his helmet was Valentino Rossi. The Italian rider retired at the age of 42 with the Petronas Yamaha team. Valentino Rossi’s decision to hang up his helmet also closes the book on his racing career spanning 25 years since 1996. Vale retired having achieved nine world championships and 115 podium wins.
After the 4 Alien era ended, the term baby alien appeared.. Marc Marquez at that time was the only ‘alien’ in MotoGP, said Cal Crutchlow in 2017.. Yes.. MotoGP world champion Marc Marquez at that time was the only rider on the grid who could consider himself an ‘alien’.. Marquez became the youngest rider to score a world title at that time. Marquez replaced Stoner on that list when he replaced the Honda double champion who retired in 2013.
The first person to call Pedro Acosta an alien, although not directly, was Jeremy McWilliams. He said that currently Pedro Acosta races as if he were from another planet, if a creature came from a planet other than Earth then he would be called an alien. The reason is how unpredictable Acosta’s performance is, when the newcomer from Moto2 will start to appear strong and it turns out that in just two series he has been on the podium.
Seeing his young age (18 years), compared to other MotoGP riders he is still ‘young’… the term that is currently popular is called a child who is still small, aka small boy…😁
