24 Hours of Spa 2022: Valentino Rossi on tackling the track for the first time - “you have to be very brave”
The famous endurance race has long been a bucket list objective for the MotoGP legend, and he will represent Team WRT alongside Frederic Vervisch and Nico Mueller in the #46 Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo II 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:on July 28-31.
Rossi, aged 43, has completed two🐓 days of testing at the iconic Spa-Francorchamps track in Belg♌ium but the race itself will be his biggest moment on four wheels.
Rossi has described tackling the Eau Rouge♔-Raidillon part of the track - a high-speed uphill section which has previously been modified f💫or safety reasons.
“I🏅t was a great feeling,” Rossi said to Sportscar365. “It’s a corner where you have to be very brave, but not just that.
“It’s a very technical corner. The line makes the difference. You need to stay to the right on entry with the wall, but because you are on the left in the car, it’s very difficult to g🧸et close to the wall without touching. T𝓡his is the first problem.
“And after, for the liℱne on the left to go flat on the right, is the secret. But not on every lap can you do it.
“You have a lot ofꦰ compression when you go up and when you have the biggest compression, you have a moment where for ꦿabout 80 metres it’s completely blind.
“So you don’t know exactly where you are, if you are inside t꧋he car or outside.
“It’s a lot easier cꦬompared to the 🐓past became you have asphalt, so you can decide to cut. This makes it more easy to find the limit.
“I did a lot of 𒉰laps in the simulator but had never been for real.
“♏There is a lot of up and down. You enjoy it a lot when you drive. It is very difficult to make the perfect lap. The first day [of testing] was not🐟 so bad; our performance was quite fast.
“On the second day we suffered a bit more because we tried to modify the car, but we found some good solℱutions.”
The 24 Hours of Spa is a part of🍌 the Fanatec GT World Challenꦓge Europe, Rossi’s first championship in a car rather than on a bike.
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everythi🌜ng from American sports⛦, to football, to F1.
