Rossi Likely To Move To F1 From Moto GP After Recovery
The news that Valentino Rossi is switching from MotoGP to Formula One had been making headlines for a long time now. But this time the rider, famous for his sense of humour, who had hinted for his move by accepting the fact that he would be interested in piloting a third Ferrari in case if Luca di Montezemolo, the Ferrari’s company president, gets everything settled with him, his way.
The seven-time World Champion, while talking to Italy's magazine, Gazzetta dello Sport that he had put off several chances of moving towards the Formula One, but now he can consider an invitation. Rossi, is a man who had always been very clear about what he wants. However, the Italian driver has yet not made any announcements to confirm his decision of moving nor had he pointed out whom he would want to see as his teammate.
Valentino Rossi is an Italian racer born on February 16, 1979, for whom racing comes in his blood as his father Graziano Rossi, is also a former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. Rossi himself is not only famous as motorcycle racer but also a multiple MotoGP World Champion. He had been able to tag nine Grand Prix World Championships to his name which makes him the most successful motorcycle racer of all time.
In 1996, Rossi started racing in Grand Prix, for Aprilia. He bagged his first World Championship the following year. He kept growing in his career and won the 250cc World Championship in 1999. Later, in the year 2001, he bagged victory at the 500cc World Championship with Honda and the MotoGP World Championships in the years 2002 and 2003. The trail of back-to-back Championships continued as he won the 2004 and 2005 titles after he left Honda to join Yamaha. The track of Championships continued as he regained the title in 2008 and retained it in 2009 as well.
Rossi holds the record of being the first in all time 500 cc/MotoGP races to have won seventy eight victories and stands second behind Giacomo Agostini in all time overall wins with 104 race wins whereas Agostini has won 122.
The ever shining racing star had the worst crash of his career on June 5, 2010, when he met an accident at turn 13 of Mugello Circuit in Italy during practice. This brought an open fracture of his right shinbone which could claim a couple of weeks or even months. The final medical reports are yet awaited. It was the first ever serious injury of Rossi's entire career.
The news got so much attention from media and his fans that it became news bigger than Dani Pedrosa’s victory in the MotoGP Italian Grand Prix. Rossi had the accident on the practice of this Grand Prix at Mugello Circuit in Italy, on Saturday. He had won seven times at the same place previously.
His team’s managing director, Lin Jarvis told that it was really a very sad day for Yamaha and the Fiat Yamaha team, to have witnessed their star in so much agony and severely injured.
At this tough time Ferrari, of Formula One has extended their full support to Rossi as the president Luca di Montezemolo said that everyone at Ferrari is with the great racer at this time of his difficulty. He added that they all are sure of his return on the track very soon and this time even stronger than ever before.
Analysts think that Ferrari is extending all positive gestures to welcome Rossi on F1. However they believe that Rossi might not want to end his MotoGP career with such a crash. They think that whenever he is capable of getting back on a motorcycle, he will.
Nevertheless at the same time it is worth mentioning that his contract with Yamaha expires at the end of this year and he has been lately toying with the idea of racing at four wheels.
Whatever, his fans are just waiting and hoping to see their star healthy as ever and back in action for whatever he chooses. Hopefully it should be real soon.
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