“Weird” Valentino Rossi habit pointed out by another MotoGP legend
Valentino Rossi did something which another rider found 🗹unusual

One of 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Valentino Rossi’s strangest traits 🐽has been recalled by a fellow MotoGP legend.
Randy Mamola was a 13-time premier class race wꦅinner who finished as the championshipᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ runner-up on four occasions.
But he crosse🌼d paths with Rossi when he stayed on, after retiring from racing, a t🔴est rider.
Mamola was asked about the weirdest pre-race rituals in MotoGP and immediately The Doctor sprung to mind.
“When you watched Valentino,ಌ he had an array of things, like touching his ears before walking out of the garage,” Mamola told Motorsport.com.
“He touched his knees before stepping over ಞthe line.
“He did what Rafa Nadal does - he pulls up his under♏pants (or G-string maybe!) It was kind of weird.
“The funny thing is: I used to say to Dorna ‘why are you filming this every weekendܫ?’
“‘Because it’s Rossi’.
“Yes, but one time is enough per weekend.
“I belꦐieve this wa♛s one of the most incredible ones.
“Remember he u♊sed to hold the foot peg befor🍷e he got on the bike?
“When I tested the bikes in Valencia at the end of the year, every time I rode the Yamaha of Valentino, I squatted down ꧑and he🍌ld the foot peg.
“They said: ‘If you crash it we’ll kill you!’
“I said: ‘This will stop me from crashing…’
“This was always funny.”
Superstitions in MotoGP
Mamola was also considering the oddest superstitions he had enc🃏ountered in racing.
Immediately the name of Mick Grant - a seven𝔍-time Isle of Ma🐭n TT race winner - popped up.
“There 🍬was a rider called Mick Grant,” Mamola smiled. ♕“This was funny…
“There was a British magazine talking about superstitions. Mick was a great character, a great rider🎐.
“When getting dressed, if he dropped his glove, he felt th🌳at he needed to ask someone 🔥else to pick it up.
“Every time I drop my glove, when I get dressed, I think of how stupid Mick❀ Grant was! And I pick it up myself!”

James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering ev🅺erything from Am🌼erican sports, to football, to F1.