It's a sensitive subject that any spark of rumor instantly ignites. This is the future of Valentino Rossi who has been said for ages to be written in the Yamaha satellite team Petronas. But it is not yet set in stone, since, to date, no contract has been signed. And, apparently, it won't be done in Misano, which would have been the ideal place. So, a doubt set in and he met Andrea Dovizioso looking for a good handlebar after his epic with Ducati. You didn't need to read it to make associations...
And this association gave a Valentino Rossi still shocked by his last Austrian Grand Prix where he saw the wreckage of the Yamaha Morbidely brush against it. Enough to tell yourself that it's time to leave. A conviction that would open the door to Andrea Dovizioso, looking for a good handlebar to pursue a career that he doesn't want to see with a red and Italian motorcycle.
On the eve of two Grands Prix at Misano, the prospect caused a lot of noise. Enough to bring the Petronas color boss Razlan Razali to get involved to declare: “ to set the record straight, we are not considering Dovi at all for 2021 ". The tone is firm. We therefore remain with the hypothesis Valentino Rossi… With Franco Morbidelli.
