A few hours from the start of track activities in Valencia, that’s why Rossi will leave a huge void in MotoGP
At the Valencia GP on Sunday 14 November the last green light at the start and the last checkered flag will put an end to Valentino Rossi’s motorcycle career. Here it is, the last dance. The 46 leaves the scene. That of Valencia, for Valentino and his public, more than a MotoGP race, will be a historic catwalk, with the tribute that will not fail even from his opponents and his critics from the entire world of Motorsport. This will be, we are sure, Valentino’s last “real” victory in memory of that 2004 Welkom kiss that the then terrible boy from Tavullia gave his Yamaha M1 on the track after a masterpiece race in which he beat the Hondas officers of Biaggi and Gibernau, a kiss that this time goes to all motorcycling enthusiasts, without exception.
valentine’s weekend
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Now close to 43 years of age, Rossi bids farewell after 26 years in the world championship and after 35 years as a racer: from minimoto, to Sport production, up to the “tricolor” and the European championship and, at the age of seventeen, to the world debut in 125 in 1996. Just over forty years of life, of which the last quarter of a century spent battling on the circuits of all continents with several generations of riders and motorbikes of multiple brands, displacements, technologies consecrating himself among the greatest and most popular champions of all time, even beyond the borders of motorcycling. We can say everything about Valentino Rossi as a rider, even critically, but not that he has not become an icon of Made in Italy, a myth without borders and timeless.
red phenomenon
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Rossi has had great opponents with whom he has crossed paths on the track (and off), including the red-hot but short period with the “corsair” Max Biaggi and also with Loris Capirossi. This has brought Valentino to the altars becoming the most loved (and discussed) racer of the last 25 years, the racer-myth emblem of motorcycling followed in Italy and in the world beyond the circle of enthusiasts, involving like never before (thanks also to TV and to social media) tens of millions of people of all ages, backgrounds and languages. From the beginning of each spring to the end of each autumn, for many, early Sunday afternoon meant turning on the TV, experiencing the motorcycle Grand Prix, rejoicing or suffering from Valentino Rossi’s feats on the track. It was like this until the end, also in 2020 and 2021, even with the ace of Tavullia now on the way to sunset.
rebus valentino
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But should Rossi have ended racing first, at the peak of his career? In great sport, in the past, for some great it happened and for others not: not for Tazio Nuvolari in motoring and for Fausto Coppi in cycling, yes for Giacomo Agostini in motorcycling. The fact remains that Rossi’s long stay on the track has benefited all motorcycling, also representing the model for the new generation. Only Rossi’s charisma explains why, even without the results of the past, the huge slice of the public that followed him both on the track and on television and in the media has not diminished, indeed has increased. Like other sports phenomena of yesterday and today, Valentino has become a symbolic character in the collective imagination, a reference for his own passion.
the size of a sample
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As a brawler and insolent little beardie, for fifteen years in a row Rossi won everything against everyone, the only rider in the history of the world championship to have won the title in four different classes: 125 (1), 250 (1), 500 (1) , MotoGP (6) as well as a host of races, podiums, record laps, pole positions. Many triumphal days, above all many quality victories and some “mischief”, given and suffered, which has always been and always will be in racing. From the postwar period onwards, Italian motorcycling has had other great champions, above all the 15-time world champion Giacomo Agostini who also deserves the credit for being the first rider-character at the beginning of the media revolution, the one that later launched Valentino Rossi to the stars. In sport there have been and still are great champions who have won and win a lot but perhaps Rossi is also true of what a champion Eddy Merckx said about Fausto Coppi: “His victories have become fiction, my chronicle “.
valentino from epic
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Here lies the value of Valentino, a Nuvolari of today. The Doctor, like other greats, reveals the stigma of the winner, hard on the track and more, with that perfidious tranquility that only champions have. Valentino was a “war machine” in racing, inventing a new way, not only physically but above all mentally, to approach and prepare for racing – and to do it, racing – bringing new professionalism and science. All with that “smile” of his always available behind which to protect his fragility as an eternal boy. Valentino Rossi, one of the strongest riders ever, was not the most titled rider but he was the best director, even of himself, of his team, of his “lap” in sport and his business, plus the favor of luck, “luck”, one of the fundamental factors for the finish line. Motorcycling has given so much to Valentino Rossi but Valentino Rossi has reciprocated by giving so much to motorcycling: now, even off the track, inspiring the ways of the future.
November 11 – 2:56 pm
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