Ducati has offered Valentino Rossi a test on the Desmosedici GP23. The response of the champion from Tavullia displaces everyone.
Despite saying goodbye to the MotoGP class a year ago, Valentino Rossi can draw a positive balance at the end of this one MotoGP, but this time as manager and conductor. Because his resignation was matched by the debut of the homonymous team Mooney VR46, which closes its first year in the premier class with good results with his brother Luca Marini and the rookie Marco Bezzecchi.
The former finished first in the final standings of the 2022 season (120 points against 111), but the ‘Bez’ brought the team’s first podium to Tavullia in the Assen Grand Prix. A healthy and constructive challenge that will also be repeated in the next World Championship, with both drivers deservedly reconfirmed well in advance. Part of the credit also goes to a motorcycle like the Ducati Desmosedici GP which is proving to be fast and versatile, difficult to beat on paper, an engineering monster that will make its voice heard in 2023 as well.
Valentino Rossi and the Ducati dream
Valentino Rossi he saw fit to sign a three-year agreement with the Borgo Panigale manufacturer, with Yamaha which previously preferred to remain linked to the RNF satellite team and not to sign a second satellite team and now he almost begs the Tavullia team to terminate the contract with Ducati early . But the Doctor is well aware that at this moment it would be madness to choose to leave the Reds to adopt the M1: “We want the fastest bikes“, he told ‘La Gazzetta dello Sport’ in no uncertain terms.
It would be nice to see him riding a prototype again MotoGP, perhaps the Ducati with which he has failed to achieve the great feat of winning the World Championship in the two-year period 2011 – 2012. A disastrous interlude that forced him to backtrack and return to Yamaha alongside Jorge Lorenzo. But then the times were not yet ripe, the various Tardozzi, Ciabatti and Dall’Igna were not yet at the top…
Today Ducati is at the top of the world, a pride that has been further strengthened with the world triumph in SBK, and seeing Valentino Rossi astride the Desmosedici would be yet another reason for pride. The 43-year-old champion confessed that some of the team would like him to test the 2023 bike that his protégé and champion will ride Francis Bagnaia. “A lot of people in the team would like me to try it… But to ride a MotoGP you need a goal, to try it like this… I don’t have that much desire, to tell the truth. I miss it, but it’s also right to make a clean break“.
