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

Luca Ma♚rini, a part of the VR46 Academy since it was formalised in 2014, enjoyed Stoner’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, with also a very clever ♒mind.

“I didn’t expect that also he’s so technically ‘prepared’. It’s super interesting to speak wi🏅th him about this e♚ra of MotoGP, about the past; I think he has really great ideas.

“Let’s 🔯see in the future if he has the energy🐻 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 at the beginning a few laps together to show him the tr🧸ack and how to ride.”

However, the Italian was impressed by impressed by Stoner’s ꦚspeed on his first visit to the VR46 Ranch,

“[He was] super-fast,” Marini said. “He [Stoner] had a twꦡo-stroke so maybe 𝕴not the perfect bike to be fast at the [VR46 Motor] Ranch but he was able to make a very good lap time for the first time.

“I think he could be 🍬very satisfied, he made a good job.”