Valentino Rossi Latest News Plus Legal Backing

Usually what multi-champion Mick Doohan used to call the want, rather than actual skill.

As well as courting sporting success he has also courted the public with a consummate skill that came as naturally to him as his riding talent.

Ultra-successful in both spheres, as long ago as 2012 he was in the top 20 of the Forbes sporting rich list.

The result is a financial empire that he again has used in an entirely novel way, as a single-handed benefactor to Italian motorcycle racing, at the same time benefitting and helping to prolong his own career.

There he built a dirt-track offering several different layouts, while converting the existing buildings and adding more to create the classrooms, training rooms and other facilities, where a gang of hand-picked young riders came to learn from the master.

Valentino Rossi Latest News Plus Legal Backing

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Then there is camaraderie that goes beyond rowdy evenings at Rossis own Tavullia pizzeria, including trips to Florence and other cultural centres to add breadth to young minds that otherwise might be restricted only to study of the stop-watch and operation of the twist-grip.

Romano Fenati, the most recent of whose 12 wins came in September this year, was one who rejected the all-boys-together atmosphere, and was soon afterwards dropped from the nascent VR46 Moto3 team, for a reported pitbox tantrum.

Fenati is a stereotypical biker bad-boy, banned for several races for squeezing another riders front brake lever at high speed.) But the list of rising youngsters from Italy, now beginning to eclipse the conquistadors of the recent Spanish invasion, is made up mainly of academicians (no-one graduates, because they keep coming back for essentially endless riding practice); making their way up from the smaller classes, with a first MotoGP victory this year.

Bagnaia now rides a factory Ducati, and has come close to his first MotoGP win, especially at Misano in September, when he finished second to another academician and Rossi protg Franco Morbidelli.

Both are former Moto2 World Champions; while Valentinos half-brother Luca Marini is currently leading that intermediate class, in the SKY VR46 Moto2 team that was added to the stable in 2017.

As well as a stable actually more a conveyor belt of young riders lucky and talented enough to catch the eye of an obviously gifted talent-spotter, the training regime is also of clear benefit to Rossi.

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