Is Valentino Rossi having one season too many? The question is brutal given the dimension of the character, but precisely, with regard to this, the recently recorded results do not add up. And in Italy, but also almost everywhere else, we feel a sense of embarrassment or even annoyance to see the Doctor both far from the point and acting as if nothing had happened. Some say that he has won on the track, and through his years of service, to be able to enjoy his passion, without pressure. But MotoGP remains a very high-level competition with great resources involved. The kind that his teammate Morbidelli says he lacks with a two-year-old bike. However, the last vintage is right next to it…
Next to him, certainly, but not for him. And it's difficult to talk about it since the one on it is none other than a Valentino Rossi to whom he owes getting to this point, and who also manages his career through the channel VR46. In view of the political divide, it would theoretically only be due to Valentino Rossi to exchange his state-of-the-art Yamaha M1 with that of his academician, quite enough to have fun at the end of his career.
A diagram thus mentioned by a certain Alberto Martinelli who is the manager of another motorcycle legend that is Tony Cairoli. About his foal, he says: “ he runs to win, not to be present ". And like Cairoli aims for a tenth title, the remark appears as an implication on the situation of Valentino Rossi in Grand Prix.
Besides, it is, because Martinelli has his idea on the Doctor's question: " today Valentino Rossi occupies a factory motorcycle which, so to speak, does not turn out to be deserved in view of the results, unlike Morbidelli. I wouldn't go so far as to say that he should stay at home, but I would have expected a political choice from him ».
“Rossi would have come out a gentleman”
Martinelli explains in detail what he would have suggested to Valentino to better conclude his experience in MotoGP: “ this winter he could have left the factory bike to Morbidelli saying that Franco is the future and he deserves it. He would have come out a gentleman and, if he had finished twelfth, no one would have criticized him. He would have enjoyed the races without pressure. Everyone would have loved him for this choice, he would have closed in style » he said on Mowmag.
The manager of Cairoli is not the first to say that the Doctor should have left the factory Yamaha M1 to Morbidely. Not having such a bike also created a bad mood for Frankie, who in 2020 was vice-world champion and best rider for the Iwata house in MotoGP. He would have deserved a distinction, instead he rides a 2019 machine.
