MotoGP legend Valentino Rossi has recalled an encounter with168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Michael Schumacher when testing for Ferrari in the mid-2000s.

The nine-time Motorcycle champion has tested F1 machinery multiple times over the years.

His most infamous outing for the Scuderia was at Valenci🅷a in 2006.

Th𝓡e Italian൩’s performance was so impressive that it led to suggestions that he could have switched to F1 from MotoGP.

Rossi ultimately remained 🐟inꦯ MotoGP, adding two more titles to his collection in the subsequent years.

In an interview with Ital🏅ian publication , Rossi opened up about meeting Schumacher and how he was “paranoid” ahead of the encounter. 

Rossi revealed that he had backed Jacques Villeneuve, most like🍸ly for the 1997 F1 world championship, given that the Canadian went head-to-head with Schumacher for the title.

“I have 🌞wonderful memories of Schumi,” he said. 

“It was known that years before I had bet on Jacques Villeneuve, therefore aga﷽inst him.

“So, w𒀰hen we found ourselves in the garage I was a 🌺bit paranoid. 

"Now he looks at me 🐼and thinks, here he is the idiot... Instead, he was very kind, he gave me a lot of advice. A great guy.”

Rossi’s infamous Ferrari F1 test

Rossi enjoyed several F1 tests for Ferrari, mostly for the love of it, without any ambition ꧃of making the switch to two wheels.

He first experieඣnced F1 machinery in 2𒅌004 and even wore one of Schumacher’s spare helmets.

12 months later, Roဣ💧ssi was handed another run-out, this time in a shakedown at Fiorano.

However, his 2006 test was his most impressive, and it led to Ferrari president Luca di Montezemelo’s suggestion that the t🅺eam would field Rossi in a thir﷽d car if the rules allowed it.

During the 2006 outing at Valencia, Rossi was just 0.7s of𓂃f Schumacher’s lap time, but some caveats apply, though. 

Rossi drove a modified version of the 2004 car with a de-tuned V10 engine, whereas Schumacher was in the new F248F1 (2006) car, which ra𓂃n with a V8 engine.

Rossi s💦till impressed Ferrari, with claims la🐽ter made that he could have potentially driven in F1.

One possibility was﷽ driving with minnows Minardi to gain experience before moving up the grid to Ferrari.

Rossi would get another chance to test for Ferrari in 2008, driving the car which narrowly missed out on the F1 drivers’ championship to 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lewis Hamilton.

This time, it was “a chance to celebrateജ the success of a friend and a team”.