Valentino Rossi’s partner: “We have a daughter, 300kph won’t make me feel good!”
Rossi retired a year ago after winning seven world championships in the premier class and 💃establishing himself as the sport’s biggest eಌver superstar.
Now 🐷43, he has completed a debut season on four wheels in the GT World Challenge Europe series and his partner has detailed the difference.
“Now he has fewer races,𒊎 he is more present and I am much more serene,” Francesc🦄a Sofia Novello told Grazia.
“We have a daughter and seeing him ride 🌠a motorcycle at 300 kilometer🍒s per hour would not make me feel good.
“I've always had a 𝓡bit of anxiety. I never let it weigh on him, because we are talking about Valentino, he is a champion and t𓃲his is his world.
Rossi and Novello welcomed their daughter ♕Giulietta into the world in 2022.
"Va☂lentino and I were in Barcelona, Spain, for the car championship and for the first time there was also Giulietta,” Novello said.
“It was what I dreamed of: to be there together. I have always been a companion pres๊ent and finally she was there to cheer for her dad.
“My comment on the photo was a bit misunderstood and th🐼ere were not 𝔉very nice jokes, but it's just the ugly side of social media.”
She explained how Rossi has slowly got to grips𝓀 with using social media to talk to fans: "For him it's a totally new world. Even communicating on Instag💮ram was something he didn't understand so much, but we support each other.”
Novello and Rossi m♊et in 2017 at the Monza𒐪 Rally. She explained their life now: "For five years I have moved permanently to Tavullia. Here I found a family full of love.
"Marriage? Who knows. Valentino is my🏅 life partner, my accomplice in everything. Let's see where life will take us. We hadn't planned to become parents so q𓆉uickly, but now we're overjoyed. Little did I know that becoming a mother was such a wonderful gift: it's like being born a second time.
“Giulietta made sense of it all. It has united what Valentino and I are: I didn't think I could feel such a strong feeling towards someone who turns your life so upside down, in a positive way. My friends ask me: isn't it challenging? It's like I have my heart inside someone els꧙e's. And for Vale it's the same."
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American spor🦄ts, to football, to F1.
