FIRST PHOTOS: Icons and prodigies unite at Valentino Rossi's 100km of Champions
Riders have descended upon Tavullia for Valentino Rossi's annual 100km of Champions.
Pedro 🔴Acosta is the most notable name at this year's dirt track race, his first time as a guest of Rossi as a MotoGP rider.
Free Practice was held on Thursday 11 January, while the racing is on 12-13 Ja꧑nuary🐲.
The Americana is scheduled for F꧑riday 12 January, and the 1000km of Champions is on 13 Januℱary.
L🦋ast year, Luca Marini won the ꧃Americana before Elia Bartolini and Lorenzo Baldassarri won the 100km race (where riders are paired up).
E𝕴x-MotoGP rider and fellow Italian v൩eteran Danilo Petrucci is at Rossi's ranch riding a two-stroke engine, displacement 500cc bike.
‘100km of Champions’ dirt track race - entry list
- Valentino Rossi
- Luca Marini
- Franco Morbidelli
- Augusto Fernandez
- Francesco Bagnaia
- Marco Bezzecchi
- Celestino Vietti
- Pedro Acosta
- Filippo Farioli
- Diogo Moreira
- Matteo Bertelle
- Xavier Artigas
- Andrea Migno
- Matteo Gabarrini
- Sammy Halbert
- Tito Rabat
- Elia Bartolini
- Mattia Casadei
- Nicola Carraro
- Alessandro Zaccone
- Alberto Surra
- Ivan Ortola
- Michael Ruben Rinaldi
- Mattia Pasini
- Jose Antonio Rueda
- Manuel Gonzalez
- Tatsuki Suzuki
- Fabio di Giannantonio
- Filippo Fuligni
- Luca Ottaviani
- Danilo Petrucci
- Remy Gardner
- Tom Neave
- Tim Neave
- Ferran Cardus
- Lorenzo Gabellini
- Marco Belli
- Dennis Foggia
- Andrea Verona
- Thomas Chareyre
- Andrea Mantovani
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