168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Valentino Rossi is forging a four-wheel racing career which could peak 💮at this year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans, which has always been his fantasy.

The legend retired from MotoGP in 2021 and is now 45 years old, with wealth that otherꦕ motorcycle racers could only dream 🐷of.

Days ago, Rossi secured a podium finish in just his second World Endurance 𝓀Championship outing.

Rossi has delivered his most in-depth explanation of the differences he has experien♛ced between racing bikes and cars.

“🤪MotoGP is very easy,” he said from the WEC paddock. “You arrive on the grid, 40 minutes, the first three corners are crucial, then flat-out until the end.

“Here, you have a lot of strategy. You have to save the tyres, manage traffic, be r✨eady to c🏅hange your plans.

“It’s a big difference, and a big challenge.

“And in a lot of points of v꧑iew, it’s exactly the sඣame.

“You are ൩sitting and you have the steering, but th💧e braking, the lines, the fights with the others are very similar.

“I think my ta♎lent on motorcycles is exactly what I fee📖l with the car.”

Rossi’s desire to rac✃e cars was well-known even before his iconic MotoGP career drew to a clo🅺se.

“I like🤡 to be a driver who can dr🃏ive everything, this is my ambition,” he said.

“I knew I wanted to r♋ace cars when I f🧔inished with the bikes.

“My problem i𝓰s that I am old! I need 10 years less! But I was able 🐎to improve year after year and my target is to arrive at the level of the GT3 cars.

“It is different. When you are൩ 45 it is normal that you are 🌊not the same as at 25.

“With motorcycles it was time to finish but it is difficult. For me, it i🌞s boring if I don’t race.

“I lived all my life like this since I was 14. I stay at home but, after two weeks☂, I need to go racing!”

Rossi pinpoint♊ed the team ethos of racing in the World Endurance Championship as a major change from Mo𒈔toGP.

“MotoGP is singular. Her🔯e it’s much more a𒐪 team work,” he said.

“Especially with the teammates in the same car.

“In car racing you always have a lot of meetings, with motorcycleꦜs it is a lot less.

“Briefings and meetings are hard work!”

"He spoke about racing, not PR"

Rossi is now in his third season of💮 racing ཧon four wheels.

He has aligned to Team WRT, a Belgian-based team, who gave him the chance to race in the GT World Challenge Eur🐟ope for the past two years.

Team WRT’s pitch to Rossi treated him like a racing driver 🐷than a PR machine, which attracted him.

“I always wanted to race with the cars and, during my motorcycle career, I tried to understand where,” he sꦬaid.

“I also like rallies, but I understood over the years🍸 t🍒hat the right place was with GT3s.

൩“Because they are good cars, fast.♛ Their lap times are similar to MotoGP, you enjoy driving them.

“For me, it was all new and I needed to un♏derstand with which team.

“I spoke with all the manufacturers more or less.

“But [team boss Vincent Vosse] was the 🍸guy who 🍒convinced me the most.

“He ca🐎me to Tavullia and spoke very much about r🍸acing, not PR.

“I have raced all my life. I said to Vincent: ‘I just w♒ant to race’.

“In the𒀰 first meeting Vincent said to me: ‘I 🧸have to put you in the right environment’.

“I said: ‘What do you mean?’

“He said: ‘You need the right teammates’.

“And it’s true.”

Rossi has already won a race on four wheels at a ꦑtrack which holds special memori🌟es for him.

“Last year I won a race in Misano and the feeling at the flag in P1 was exactly like a MotoGP𒁃 race,” he said.

“This is why I race and it’s the same for the most part of the drivers here🌊. For that moment. To t🍃ry to win.

“That moment pays back everything.”

The ultimate goal is no secret.

“Le Mans wꦜas the first target from the beg🌟inning,” Rossi said.

“I’ve always followed it꧒ but you understand it clearly when you are a car driver.

“I was there last year and I 𒁏was impressed with the atmosphere, the people. I can’t wait ✱to race there.

“I still have to🐻 under💛stand things especially in the race.”