Jordan has won it all, multiple times. And, when he left to pursue an idea he had as a kid, baseball, he was back within a year. How could Valentino Rossi do after a difficult season in endurance, giving the public and himself the biggest comeback in the history of motorsport
Michael Jordan, Air Jordan. The greatest by posting. For what he won, for how he inspired others, for what he built after. Jordan changed the sport at every level, right up to the movie that he keeps bringing kids to the pitch to taste a slice of the orange ball. Jordan exported basketball to the world, made it for everyone. He changed the rules by putting only his shoes that are now a street cult. She made the NBA the show, business, and layered story it is today. Here, from here the passage is easy, almost obvious: Jordan as Rossi, Valentino Rossi as Michael Jordan.
Vale his sport has changed him. He brought it into the world, connected people, pushed the kids on the track. There is a before and after Rossi and there will always be, no matter how many phenomena will pass from the Sunday grid. Valentino hasn’t retired like Michael, who left basketball at 31 to win baseball after his father’s death: Jordan had already won everything and was looking for more, a new story, a tribute to the passions of when he was a child. With a hint of inevitable arrogance for someone of his caliber.
Vale as a child raced in karting, then Graziano realized that with the motorcycles he was saving something and having fun all the same. After consuming the asphalts of the world for a quarter of a century, the Doc also returned home, to what he could have done both as a child and a little later, when Ferrari gave him a single-seater at Fiorano as a springboard for that great leap. which he never did. More machines, going back to the beginning, after a life on the bike. Before leaving, Valentino made sure he had put his all into the MotoGP, that he could no longer win.
Michael retires from basketball in 1993, plays baseball in ’94, in ’95 he sends a press release that says “I’m back”: I’m back. forty five and he suffers, because while he is still a good player he is no longer the phenomenon that people want to see. He returns to 23, the usual number, returns to dominate to win everything several times, until the second retirement in 1999. Then buy the Wizards, plays in the Wizards he owns and retires for the third time in 2003. Addicted, employee. Passionate, almost doomed to do that stuff there. Today Jordan is the only former player to own an NBA team, the Charlotte Hornets.
Ecco, in this back to being close to a Rossi who also watches the 15-year-old races in the Spanish championship at home and continues to race once a week. Valentino who wanted to open his very personal ones sliding door, see what would have happened with a steering wheel and without the handlebars. To date, the biggest smile in endurance has given him a fifth place at Misano. His team, the WRT, has just given up on a partnership of over a decade with Audi to switch to BMW, calling into question his contract. Some will say that it is a pity, that Rossi was expected to have a season full of victories, an ingenuity that only those unfamiliar with Gran Turismo could think. The truth is that what they, Rossi and Jordan did, changing the rules they followed for a lifetime, only made them bigger. Born to do what they found themselves in it, doing it better than anyone else: have given concrete proof.
Mike tries baseball, Mike goes back to basketball. He has his own team and plays with that, making it great. The cars are worth trying, he likes them. Vale knows better than the rest of the world that it is not the same thing. And then, after walking on the other side of the moon and quenching your curiosity, seeing him again on a motorbike would be great. The Valentino team, dstraight in Superbike or who knows what other league, with other things to say with the usual effect: a show. Said by him it would be funny, to go crazy: “Nice cars, but I’m back in motion.” I’m back, come Michael Jordan.
