The Pesaro native spoke to the Mow website about his new life as a GTWC pilot, as Giulietta’s father (“I’d also like a boy, let’s see”) and about his return to motorbikes (“Which I still like to see live because you see that last fur”)
Valentino Rossi and the new life as a pilot of GT World Challenge, as the father of little Giulietta and as a MotoGP fan “who I like to follow on the track, because you see that last hair in person”. The nine-time MotoGP world champion spoke about it in an interview with the site Mowto whom he also told that he had become much less superstitious compared to the times in which he ran in MotoGP: “I’ve decreased a lot. It had become a nightmare, like a psychopath. Before, if something wasn’t right, I’d get paranoid, but now I take it more calmly.”
car rides
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A big difference in car racing is that in GTWC your teammate is your first ally. And the rivals? “There isn’t one in particular. I study the strongest, Maxim Martin, Dries Vanthoor, Marcello, then there are Pierguidi and Fuoco from Ferrari. Here everything is more impersonal because there are one hundred and fifty riders, in MotoGP however you are always with those twenty about which you know everything, life, death and miracles and then on the track you practically see them eye to eye. Now I’m doing half a race of doorbells with someone and I don’t even know who he is. And then, do you know what the problem is? Now arguing with someone , it’s too demanding. Thirty sites that repeat what you said, it’s stressful. Now it’s all amplified. Because in my opinion the feeling among pilots is the same as twenty years ago, that is, they’re on the c….. everyone Everyone has those two, three that they really hate, but they don’t say it or they don’t live anymore.”
the return to motion
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Giulietta’s life as a father involves him a lot, to the point that he is curious about having a boy too: “I’d like to have one in a bit, let’s see”. And then the love for MotoGP, to the point of dreaming of returning, but in a different role: “Returning to the track? Impossible. At most I can return as a commentator. It’s just that doing it all the time is a great commitment, a job. But once in a while I would like it. Sooner or later it will happen.”
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