Valentino Rossi jokes about getting back on a motorcycle

The words of Valentino Rossi

On the eve of the Monza race, the first of his new season on four wheels, Valentino Rossi spoke to La Repubblica about his career: “I don’t like to call it my last sporting challenge, I hope not. I’ve always planned to race cars after motorcycles, we have to see where I can go, what I care about is that I’m old…. It’s a good challenge, the WRT team reminds me of a MotoGP team and Bmw believes in my project. I will test with the Hypercar, we just have to decide when and where.”

“Even today people ask me when I will come back to motorcycle racing and they are hurt if I tell them I am almost 50 years old, so I say I will do it next year. It’s quite a commitment to manage, but I realized that it will never change, not even when I stop racing,” the Doctor joked.

“In MotoGP we have many strong riders, Bagnaia could become a dragger. After me, motorcycling went back to what it was before me: a sport for fans. I, for some reason, had managed to introduce it to grandmothers and children. I honestly don’t know why, maybe it was a combination of my achievements and my character. Bezzecchi? I got excited. Making a team and winning in MotoGP is not a given, so many never succeed. Also, as well as Bagnaia, he is one of my riders in the Academy and that triples the emotions.”