Valentino Rossi: MotoGP great on switching to GTWCE ‘to feel the adrenaline'

Valentino Rossi has opened up on the difficulties of ending his legendary MotoGP career and the reason he has started a new adventure by swapping two wheels for four.
Valentino Rossi
Valentino Rossi

Nine-time motorcycle world champion Rossi, now 43🍬, brought his MotoGP career to a halt at the end of last season but now is behind the wheel of a Team WRT Audi R8 and will race at the GT World Challenge Europe at Brands Hatch on Sunday.

It will be the second race of his new adventure - in his debut at Imola, he finished 17th after a misha💝p during 🌊his team pit stop resulting in him driving past his crew. 

🔥But Rossi was, as usual, all🍰 smiles in the build-up to his second race and revealed why he made the transition: “I always had an idea to race with cars, since when I started with motorcycles.

“This idea with GT3 helped me to stop w🍎ith the bikes!

“To stop𒁏 was🌃 very difficult. I drove cars in the past just to improve my skills. 

“I want to be competitive.

“You need something - you need to feel the adrenaline, to remain a driver, to r💧emain on the track, to jump in the car, to wear the helmet.

“This is the same as from when I wa𝐆s five-years-old.

“I hope I can race cars for [several] seasons.”

Swapping MotoGP for GT World Challenge

The 24 Hours of Spa and Le Mans are the new goals set by Rossi for hims🏅el💯f.

“I want to be competitive with the good guys – to have the speed and drive the car at the maximum, to be as stღrong as them,” he said. 

“Yes, Le Mans is an ambition b🍌ut this year we race in Spa and that is the greatest race for the GT3 cars because you have 60 cars and all in the same class. 

“Le Mans is 🏅another story with different cars and on the track and I’m very excited for Spa.

“Also because I have never driven at Spa. I have never been♏ there and everybody says that it is a great track. 

“After, ꦆalso in the future, I would like to try Le Mans.”

Here’s how to live stream the 2022 MotoGP Jerez for free no matter where you are in the world.

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How to watch Jerez highlights for free online

To watch highlights for free on YouTube:

1. Get 

2. Connect to a server location in the UK

3. Visit the official YouTube channel. Tune in to the Jerez highlights

How to watch on TV

Live MotoGP: Spain Opening Day begins from 8am on Friday, until 3pm, live on BT Sport 2 and covering Free P🅺ractice 1 and Free Practice 2.

MotoE qualifying is live on BT Sport 2 frꦿom 3.45pm on Friday.

On Saturday, the action begins live on BT Sport 2 from 8am with coverage of Free Practice 3.

Then from 11am on the same channel we have live coverage of Qualifying.

From 3.15pm, MotoE Race 1 is live.

The Rookies Cup is live from 4.15pm.

On Sunday the Jerez warm-up is live on BT Sport 2 from 8am.

The Moto3 race is live from 9.15am before the Moto2 race at 11am.

BT Sport 2’s live coverage of MotoGP Jerez is live from 12.30pm. And their post-race show, Chequered Flag, is on at 2pm.

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