Le Mans MotoGP: Valentino Rossi: I don’t read anything! 2022 depends on results

Va🍌lentino Rossi's worst-ever start to a grand prix season has fuelled plenty of deba🌞te over the nine-time world champion's MotoGP future.
Currently on a one-year deal with Petronaꦑs Yamaha, Rossi 🅷has always maintained that results will determine whether he elects to extend his record-breaking career into 2022.
The Italian's results so fa♚r make grim reading, his only points coming from a twelfth-place finish in the Qatar season-opener. Since then, Rossi has been classifiꦦed 16th, DNF, 17th.
While there have been plenty of cri🎐tics, two high-profile former racers recently offered words of support to Rossi.
1993 world champion Kevin Schwantz believes the 42-year-old still has fight in him, while Foggy felt Rossi would be at the front if MotoGP bikes were n꧙ot so reliant on electronics.
"I don’t read anything🐓, ever. But it's been like this for 15 years!" smiled Rossi, when asked if he sees all the speculation writte༒n about him.
"But sometimes I see things on Instagram. Somebody speaks well about me, 🦋somebody less! I saw good words from Kevin and from Fogarty. I have to say thank you to the ex-champions that speak well!
"What I like is that Kevin said he still trusts in me and that I still have some fight inside. I agree with him and will try t💦o demonstrate."
After a 'low morale' Spanish Grand Prix, Rossi and his team had allowed themselves someꦇ 'small smiles' following progress in braking and corner entry at the post-race test.
The Doctor hoped to confirm the steps made at Le Mans this weekend, but the forecast wet weather is set 🧜to complicate things.
"Yes it's a shame because I like a lot Le Mans and historically it's also a good track for Yamaha so I hope for a dry weekend also t🧜ꦜo understand if the work from the Monday test at Jerez can help us to be stronger also here," he said.
"But the weather is like t𓆉his and we will see. Will be important to tr𓄧y to be competitive in all the conditions because the weather changes every ten minutes."
Rossi was also asked for his response to the news that there will not be any fans at his upcoming 💟home Italian Grand Prix at Mugello.
"I think that Mugello is the place w🎃here having no fans is the biꦕgger problem, because the track is a natural stadium," he said. "Maybe Jerez is like this, or Assen. But in Mugello you see the people when you ride, it's one of the only tracks."
Might theꦰ lack of home fans also influence his decis🔯ion to race in 2022?
"It's a great shame to not have any fans also this year [at Mugello] but depends very much on the results if I continue in 🐭2022," Rossi reiterated.

Peter has been in the paddock🗹 for 20 years and has seen Valentino Rossi come and go. He is at the forefront of the Suzuki exit story and Marc Marquez’s injury issues.