He didn’t have the qualification he hoped for (he will start from 18th position), but Valentino Rossi he is simply happy to be back on his M1 for the last races of the season MotoGp , after skipping cause Covid the double date of Aragon . It is the same nine-time world champion, to the microphones of Sky Sport, to admit that he saw his certainties waver: “At a certain point I was afraid of not finishing the season” he declared.
“All my friends do negativized , not me – said the champion from Tavullia, back on track today, in the hours following qualifying for the European GP -. I knew about people who stayed positive for fifty days and I thought I couldn’t get back. That would have been a great joke. It was very hard ”.
Tested positive for the first time for coronavirus last October 15 , Valentino Rossi had to leave the saddle of his Yamaha official until yesterday, when the second negative buffer in a row finally arrived that allowed him to regain his place on the grid, after the American Garrett Gerloff he had faced FP1 and FP2 in his place.
Sunday will be complicated for the ‘Doctor’, called to a hard comeback from the starting square number 18 on the circuit of Valencia . Rossi will try to do his best also to try to move up in a world ranking that currently sees him at fifteenth place and to ‘avenge’ the three consecutive retreats that preceded the double absence, perhaps conquering that one podium number 200 in the premier class that seems bewitched.
Valentino, in any case, also found the time to dedicate a thought to his brother Luca Marini, who just today made official his arrival in MotoGP, in Ducati starting next season: “I’m happy for him – he said -. He always told me that one day we would run together and he was right ”.
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OMNISPORT | 07-11-2020 20:38
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