You're not interested enough in social media to follow several hundred drivers and teams, but you don't like to miss any of the little stories that animate MotoGP and the other categories? This daily column is made for you, early in the morning, to start the day off right while waiting for more substantial articles. For now, Max Biaggi talks about his reconversion as a ski instructor.
Although he may be done with two-wheel racing, the four-time Grand Prix world champion and well-known figure in MotoGP has not finished taking on new challenges. At the start of this new year, the Italian shared the latest challenge he is taking on, which will now occupy his days.
“First of all, I would like to wish you a happy new year 2025, confides Max Biaggi on his Facebook page. I've been a bit absent this year! I've dedicated a lot of my time to achieving a goal I've wanted to achieve for a long time. On December 6th, I successfully completed my journey to become an assistant ski instructor. Now I can proudly say: 'Mission accomplished!!!'
“In fact, after I stopped racing in 2012, I always tried to give myself goals, to be able to live this life with the intensity it deserves to be lived. It was with this idea that the desire to try to do something important with Supermoto came. Then in 2015, after three years of stopping, I was 44 years old. I returned to WSBK, with my Aprilia RSV4, getting on the podium in Sepang.”
“After a few years, I accepted a new challenge: the electric motorcycle. Three years lived very intensely, and above all very quickly! Then, the desire for a new challenge definitely took me away from my comfort zone. No longer two wheels, but two skis. Many similarities, but completely different feelings.”
A sport which, unlike motorcycle racing, plunges him into anonymity. Max Biaggi is no more "just another ski instructor." The transalpine pilot has already found his first two clients. "Now as an assistant ski master, I am enrolled in the Selva ski school in Val Gardena. In my first lesson, I would like to proudly have Ines and Leon as students, my children
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