168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Valentino Rossi 🌸is forging a four-wheel racing car🍸eer which could peak at this year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans, which has always been his fantasy.

The legend retired from MotoGP in 2021 and is now 45 years old, with wealth that other motorcycle racers ꦫco𒐪uld only dream of.

Da🍃ys ago, Rossi secured a podium finish in just his second 💖World Endurance Championship outing.

Rossi has delivered his most in-depth explanation of the differences he has experienced be🀅tween racing bikes and cars.

“MotoGP is very easy,” he saidꦉ from the WEC paddock. “You arrive on the grid, 40 minutes, the first ꦰthree corners are crucial, then flat-out until the end.

“Here, you have a lot of str🌄ategy. You have to save the tyres, manage traffic, be ready 😼to change your plans.

“It’s a big difference, and a big challenge.

“And in a lot of poin꧟ts of view, it’s exactly the same.

“You are sitting ꦉand you have the steering, but the braking, the lines, the fig✨hts with the others are very similar.

“I think my talent o👍n motorcycles is exactly what I feel with the car.”

Ross꧋i’s desire to race c🅘ars was well-known even before his iconic MotoGP career drew to a close.

“I like to be a driver who can drive ev🦹ꦺerything, this is my ambition,” he said.

“I knew I wanted to 𒆙race cars when I finished with the bikes.

“My problem is that I am old! I need 10 years less! But I was able to improve year after ye♓ar and my target is to arrive at the level of the GT3 cars.

“It is different. Wh💫en you are 45 it is normal that you are not the same as at 25.

“With𒁃 motorcycles it was time t⭕o finish but it is difficult. For me, it is boring if I don’t race.

“I lived all my ওlife like this since I was 14. I🎃 stay at home but, after two weeks, I need to go racing!”

Rossi pinpointed the team ethos of rac🎀ing in the World Endurance Championship as a major change from MotoGP.

“MotoGP is siꦡngular. Here i🐼t’s much more a team work,” he said.

“Especially with the teammates in the same car.

“In car racing you always have a l🍌ot of meetings, with motorc𝔉ycles it is a lot less.

“Briefings and meetings are hard work!”

"He spoke about racing, not PR"

Rossi is now in hi🐼s third season of racin🎃g on four wheels.

He has aligned to 🍌Team WRT, a Belgian-based team, who gave him the chance to race in the GT World Challenge Europe for the past two years.

Team WRT’s pitch to Rossi treated him like a racing driver than a PR machine, wh🍸ich attracted him.

“I always wanted to race with the cars and, during my motorcycle career, I tried to🔥 under🐲stand where,” he said.

“I also like rallies, but I understood over t🐲🍷he years that the right place was with GT3s.

“Because they are good cars, fast. Their lap 𝄹times are similar to MotoGP, you enjoy driving them.

“For me🍸, it was all new and I needed ꦜto understand with which team.

“I spoke with all the manufacturers more or less.

“But [team boss 🔯Vincent Vosse🐬] was the guy who convinced me the most.

“He came to Tavullia and spoke very muc🍃h a🀅bout racing, not PR.

“I have raced all my life. I said to Vincent: ‘I jus�༒�t want to race’.

“In the first meeting Vincent said to me: ‘I have to put you in the right ♛envir꧒onment’.

“I said: ‘What do you mean?’

“He said: ‘You need the right teammates’.

“And it’s true.”

Rossi has already won a race on four wheels at a track which holds special mem♈ories for him.

“Last y🐈ear🔯 I won a race in Misano and the feeling at the flag in P1 was exactly like a MotoGP race,” he said.

“This is why I race and it’s the same for the most pa💮rt of the drivers here. For that moment. To try to win.

“That moment pays back everything.”

The ultimate goal is no secret.

“Le Mans was the first target from the beginning,” Rossi 𝓰said.

“I’ve🍎 always followed it but you understand it clearly when you are ♌a car driver.

“I💝 was there last year and I was impressed with the atmosphere, the people. I can’t wait🦹 to race there.

“I still have🤪 to understand things especially in the race.”