“We want you, we don’t win because we don’t have you on our bike”. So Davide Brivio caressing the pride of Valentino Rossi convinced the pilot from Tavullia to accept what then seemed to everyone madness. In 2003, in the second year of MotoGP’s ‘life’, Rossi riding the Repsol team’s official Honda was dominating the championship far and wide. The HRC, however, did not worry too much about the Doctor’s stay inside the house of the golden wing, but in the face of what in his eyes was little recognition of his worth, Valentino Rossi decided to prove that he was the one to do. the difference and not the Honda missile. The Doctor accepted Yamaha’s offer and in 2004 hit the spot on the first shot on the M1, a bike with which he already won his debut in South Africa at Welkom against Max Biaggi.
From 2004 to 2009 Rossi and Yamaha won four world titles in pairs, 2004-2005 and 2008-2009. In between the knockouts against Nicky Hayden in a World Championship marked by bad luck and the net defeat, instead, against the Stoner-Ducati duo in 2007. In 2008 Rossi took revenge against the Australian, while in 2009 he sent the first back to the sender attack by Jorge Lorenzo. The following, however, was not able to be stemmed for Rossi also due to the injury suffered at Mugello, after which Rossi decided to try another company by moving to Ducati. The two-year period in red, however, was more than unhappy for Rossi who found refuge in Yamaha from 2013 until today.
In the advent of 2020, however, the house of Iwata rushed the Doctor at the level of contract renewal, with Rossi having obtained the time required to evaluate his competitiveness, a concession that made him the place in the official team in which he was confirmed. Maverick Vinales and promoted Fabio Quartararo starting from 2021. Only with the explosion of the Vinales case this season it was possible to reconstruct the fact that it was Vinales who blew up the plans of the Lin Jarvis-Massimo Meregalli duo, obtaining the renewal at the top of Yamaha directly in Japan. Jarvis and Meregalli would not have ‘humiliated’ Rossi by forcing him to join the Petronas customer team. Graziano Rossi interviewed by The Gazzetta dello Sport he said he was disappointed like Valentino by Yamaha’s behavior. The Reds expected a little more gratitude after the leap into the void made in 2003: “I am very disappointed, there are things that go beyond sports projects and programs. I don’t think Valentino deserved such treatment and I think he didn’t expect it “.
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