Little motorbike and a lot of life from Francesco in the chat in which the king of MotoGP reveals that at school he was stuck at the front desk (“always in detention”) and cries over the most diverse films, from Gladiator to Disney’s Elemental. And then the 16-hour trips in the camper, the amatriciana, the boxes designed in shoe boxes. “I have an advantage, you know: everything slides over me, I never get angry”
Pecco always speaks in a polite and never excessive way, and so the thought goes instead to what he is capable of doing – extreme, sensational, far from reality – on the track, on the Ducati, at over 330 per hour, a distance away amen from other bikes to do things that we humans… In short, a fascinating contrast. Among other things, we start chatting with him after he has just taken off his tuxedo and taken off his top hat, his uniform for the shooting of the Sky Sport commercial. He played the magician, and this look of him, in a certain sense, helps to imagine how this boy capable of extraordinary devilry on the Desmosedici became king of MotoGP twice.