Valentino Rossi endured a disastrous weekend in GT World Challenge Europe
Rossi and his t⭕eammate Frederic Vervisch finished 15th on Saturday then 16th on Sunday but it was a chastening experience that the motorcycle racing lege🍸nd will not remember fondly.
Racing in Zandvoort, the Netherlands, this weekend🍷 brought Rossi’s maiden four-wheel championship since retiring from MotoGP to its halfway mark.
The Italian first crashed in F🌄riday’s practice m🍌eaning he and Vervisch swapped their Team WRT Audi in the trademark yellow livery of Rossi for a green substitute.
Rossi, now 43, showed▨ signs of improvement in the firs🎉t sprint race of the weekend with a slick overtake on the inside after creeping up on Chris Froggatt’s Mercedes.
But Rossi later spun - they finished +21.753 off th💖e pace set by fellow Team WRT duo Charles Weerts and ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚDries Vanthoor.
Rossiཧ and Vervisch were +23.857 behind the winners of Race 2, Mercedes’ Timur Boguslavskiy and Raffaele Marciello, in 16th place.
Rossi will return behind the steering wheel in the coming week, 21-22 June, for a test day ah⛎ead of the 24 Hours of Spa.
His next rﷺace in the GT World Chꦆallenge Europe is 1-3 July in Misano, Italy.
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American 🐲spor🉐ts, to football, to F1.
