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Valentino Rossi (41) is what Roger Federer (38) in tennis and Simon Ammann (38) are to ski jumpers at the Töff World Championship – the seemingly eternal figure with unprecedented successes in the past.
Like the two Swiss, the nine-time Töff world champion from Italy continues to postpone the resignation. Rossi will have to go to the Yamaha factory team in late 2020. But it has long been clear that the two-wheeled legend would continue on another racing team in 2021 if he wanted to.
However, since the old man only changed his main mechanics for the second time in his MotoGP career in 2020, there are many signs that he will continue. Especially if, due to the Corona crisis, this year can only be carried out to a limited extent or not.
Are you still chasing records?
Apparently, only the regulations seem to be able to stop the veteran. MotoGP rules state: in the main class you can only travel up to 50 years old! But if Rossi really wants to race past 2029, a “Lex VR46” would be used.
Former GP rider Loris Capirossi is now employed by MotoGP organizers as a safety advisor and giggles to “GPone”: “We would raise this limit for Rossi. Because I don’t think I want to stop.
Rossi has played 402 Grand Prix so far, 345 of them were in MotoGP. That is record. Rossi started at the World Cup for the first time in 1996. 2020 would be the 25th season of the Italian GP. He is now battling opponents who are half his age, such as his designated successor to Yamaha’s factory team, Fabio Quartararo (20).
The dream of the tenth World Cup title has led Rossi to continue so far, despite the fact that he has not won a race at Assen since 2017 and has not won the championship in eleven years. If he could still handle the mega-coup against wild youths for years to come, he would be the oldest world champion in motorcycle history.
