If two of his three brand colleagues hadn’t done worse, you should say: “Come on Valentino – who landed in 14th place 22 seconds behind the winner, Marquez and 15 behind Quartararo – something like that is not” for you. Like Gaius Valerius Catullus, I would start this admonition:
Valentine is unhappy, stop being silly and what you see is lost.
“Sad Valentino, stop being stupid, and what you see as dead, may you consider lost”
The fact is that the sunny days (the continuation of Catullus’ poetry) stopped shining even for Franco Morbidelli and Maverick Vinales, last and penultimate, so it’s not about you, but about all of you: you, Franco and Maverick. Yamaha no longer loves you and it is understandable that the young Frenchman stole his heart. But while fate is sealed for Vinales and Morbidelli – a page fate – it is different for you, Vale. You are a king and you could reinvent yourself by deciding to end your career with your team along with your brother Luca Marini. And it would be a nice way to finish things off.
Of course, it’s not like leaving the stage as a world champion as you might have wished but if you think Giacomo Agostini couldn’t either, then it doesn’t seem like a bad horizon to embrace with your gaze.
Also because Valentino was not exactly “riveted” to the track from a different point of view: like Vinales, the stopwatch placed him 7th overall.
Ours is not an official defense: we read the numbers and they are not what your age – 42 – suggests. Maybe, yes, of course Rossi is no longer a lightning bolt in qualifying round (he never actually was …) but he doesn’t deserve to be finished that way.
“The warm-up made a good impression on me – he said after the race today – I started the race optimistically, I wanted to get off to a good start, but didn’t make it and it’s difficult to overtake here.” I improved in the last stages of the race and I also enjoyed it. I just needed a good start because I started from the sixth row. “
Rossi: “More than overtaking, with the Yamaha you have to be careful not to be overtaken on the straight”
An analysis of the ranking confirms Valentino’s words.
“In the end I drove with the time of the leaders in 1’22: I had the track free for a total of six laps … Franco and Maverick also had to fight today. With the Yamaha, if you start from behind. It’s difficult we have to drive differently and are slow on the straights. In order to overtake you have to go very low, press hard when braking … but when overtaking you have to be careful not to be overtaken ”.
The only one who always seems to get the best out of this M1 is Quartararo …
“Fabio is very quick and leads the championship. And he’s able to keep the problem under control and start at the front in every race. “
And that makes the difference. “Maybe there is something coming for Misano, but mostly it depends on the tracks. That’s more or less the package. I like Assen, next week it’s a good track for Yamaha on paper, but the first is,” Me hope we have good weather. Our situation is difficult, especially in the race because I know Vinales well, because I have him on the team: he is very fast and full of talent.
At this point we would like Rossi to continue his adventure with Ducati. With his team. Because it would be the right way to close the circle. We told him that, but we explained ourselves badly and Vale replied that “we are the usual journalists who like the news right away” and that he “agreed and I will tell you what I will during the summer break will do “.
From someone whose career was marked by the sentence “Imagine if you hadn’t tried”, We don’t expect him to do anything else. Again. But don’t you dare ask him what he thinks of Marquez’s success at the Sachsenring, You would sense in the response that Vales resentment is still strong.
In a few years from now we will be talking about Agostini, Hailwood and Valentino Rossi. speak and our judgment will not be based on the number of titles won …