Casey Stoner’s recent trip to Italy to visit the EICMA motorcycle show in Milan saw him also head to the VR46 Motor Ranch🐲 to link up with his former MotoGP rival Valentino Rossi, as well as the members of the Italian’s VR46 Riders Academy.

Luca Marini, a part of the VR46 Academy sinc🍌e it was formalised in 2014, enjoyed Stone🧔r’s technical knowledge of modern MotoGP — a sport Stoner left 12 years ago — and his perspective on the state of the sport at the moment.

“I have a very good respect for him, he’s a rider with incredible talent and speed, wiꦇth also a very clever mind.

“I didn’t expec🎃t that also he’s so technically ‘preparဣed’. It’s super interesting to speak with him about this era of MotoGP, about the past; I think he has really great ideas.

“Let’s see in the future if he has ꦏthe ꦐenergy to join us maybe with some position in MotoGP.”

The current HRC rider was unable to ride much with Stoner at the Ranch: “I didn’t ride with him on♛ the last exit when he was fast; I just made at𝓡 the beginning a few laps together to show him the track and how to ride.”

Hไowever, the Italian was impressed by impressed by S⛦toner’s speed on his first visit to the VR46 Ranch,

“[He was] super-fast,” Marini said. “He [Stoner] had a two-stroke so maybe not the perfect bike to be fast at the [VR46 Motor] Ranch but he wa🔥s able to make a very good l𓃲ap time for the first time.

“I think he could be verꦐy satis൩fied, he made a good job.”