Kevin Schwantz bluntly on Valentino Rossi

Kevin Schwantz bluntly on Valentino Rossi

Kevin Schwantz pointed out in an interview with Motorsport the difficulties of MotoGp in relaunching itself after Valentino Rossi’s farewell: “The number of Valentino’s fans and supporters has changed this discipline. I thought that having a team with his name (VR46 ed.), being present with these guys, training with them, would somehow help to maintain his presence. But that’s not entirely the case, and the void he has left is huge.”

Schwantz promoted the idea of sprint races: “I really like them, in my day it would have been difficult on a set-up level and we probably would have kept working on it on Sunday. But on a show level I think it’s very good. The bikes perform much better on Saturday than on Sunday because the tires degrade much less and because the fuel weight is halved. The bikes on Saturday are the real race bikes.”