One of the earliest aides to Valentino Rossi’s career admits he didn’t expect the future MotoGP legend to win nine world titles.

Rossi’s iconic career yielded seven premier class cha🎉mpionships, after 🌟glory at the 250cc and 125cc levels.

Aprilia were the manufacturer who gave Rossi his big start, after Carlo Pernat ꦰbecame aware🎀 of his prodigious Italian rider.

Pernat, now a MotoGP paddock veteran as a rider manager, wa🅠s then in charge of Aprilia’s sporting activities.

“Everyone recommended him to me, at the time all the rid♉ers wanted to come to Aprilia,” Pernat told&🦩nbsp;.

“I went to see him and wow, he took trajectories that no other r🅷ider did, but he ofte♔n fell.

“I fell in love with him, for that way of riding.

“Yo💞u could see that he had a talent that the others didn’t have, even if I never believed he could win nine ღworld championships.

“I had to insist and not a little, but I convinced the owner, since we had 🅷already won once with Max Biaggi, who was also unknown when I took ಌhim.

“Ini༒tially he didn’t know how to ride in the wet, he a🍌lways fell. Then he won everyone over.”

Rossi finished ninth🃏 in his first 125cc sea🔴son on an Aprilia before he started to dominate.

He won his first world title in his second year i🍨n 1997, then needed only two mor๊e years to win at 250cc.

“He was a daredevil, ꦅat the beginning,” Pernat said💧.

“When he started winning some grands prix, Aprilia Marketing called an American director. He spent $200 mi🌌lliℱon in that period, to communicate with Valentino.

“He was a demanding director and one evening Vale called me: ‘Carlo, I can’t stand this⛦ director anymore, I don’t want to, that’s enoughꦓ’.

“I told him: ‘Be patient, we spent $200 million’.

“And he had already gone to his house in Tavullia.ꦚ But then he was so nice, we forgave hi𝕴m.”

Rossi’s first four years of grand prix racing were spent on an Aprilia, and he won two championships in two classes before joining Honda where his legend gre✱w.

A-list Valentino Rossi fans ask for autographs

Later in his own MotoGP👍 career, Pernat would be asked by A-list celebrities to meet Rossi.

"I met Brad Pitt (Valentino Rossi's fan), a very normal person, he came with his son,” Pern꧑at explained.

“Another who arrived in jeans, a T-shirt, a backpack and a motorcycle: K𝔍eanu Reeves. All wonderful characters.

“I also met Pamela Andersonꦡ, although she🅰 was more disliked, and Tom Cruise.

“And try to guess who asked me for an autograph…

"We were in 1994 at Donington Park, in England. In hospitality I am approached by this person who asks me "Are you Carlo Pernat? Can I have a🐬 signature?’.

“I gave him an autograph. A photographer stopped me immediately after and said: ‘Do you know who that one is? George Harris𒅌o𒊎n’.

“The Beatles singer was a great motorcycle enthusiast and I didn't r🌠ecognize him. I chased him asking him for a photo. The original, autographed, is framed in my house.”