Valentino Rossi will begin his twenty-sixth Grand Prix season, at the age of 42. He has, among others, and before starting the 2021 campaign, nine world titles, 115 victories and 235 podiums, 199 of which were won in the premier category. Can he further enhance this enviable record? Some strongly doubt it, even to the point of wondering if he will even be able to keep track of his flag ceremonies in MotoGP...
The last podium of Valentino Rossi dates back to the second race of the 2020 season at Jerez, which allowed the official Yamaha to bring your score to 199 in the major Grand Prix discipline. THE 200ème were at hand before Joan mir don't whisper it to him in view of the arrival of the San Marino Grand Prix in Misano.
The rest was less happy for the Doctor who will end this next world campaign in the worst place recorded in his prolific career in a general ranking, i.e. fifteenth. 2021 will be another adventure, as a satellite pilot under the colors Petronas and always with a Yamaha . The opportunity to relaunch one last time, within a structure with six 2020 victories, before bowing out? Opinion is divided…
“The head controls the hand and tells Valentino Rossi not to accelerate”
And the most decided among the skeptics comes from Carlo Pernat. Sure GP One, he is not nuanced by asserting: “ I think it would have been better if he had stopped sooner.. But he likes it. How are you “, declared the Italian. “ In my opinion, he will not fight for the world title. Maybe he can show some good runs. But the years pass. He doesn't have many good memories from last year. When he took risks, he fell » noted the manager of bastianini andArbolino.
« I don't see him fighting for podium places »Predicts Feathered. “ Maybe I'm wrong. But at 42, the head controls the hand and tells him not to speed ". It was during the 2017 season that Red took his last victory in MotoGP. It was in Assen. In 2020, he also had a big scare at the Red Bull Ring when he passed through the debris of the Yamaha Morbidely transformed into a projectile.
