The nine-time world champion retired from MotoGP at the end of 2021, bringing to a conclusion a glittering 26-season in grand prix motorcycle racing.
For 2022, Rossi will embark on a full campaign on four wheels in the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance and Sprint Cups with WRT and Audi, the Italian holding a connection to the German brand in MotoGP this year with his VR46 squad, which will run machinery from VW Group-owned Ducati.
Team boss Vincent Vosse described seven-time MotoGP world champion Rossi’s pace aboard an Audi R8 GT3 evo II during wet running at Magny-Cours this week as “very, very impressive”.
“Valentino was so good in the wet,” Vosse told Motorsport.com.
“He had a natural feel for the grip level out on the track. I was impressed, but not surprised because we know he is a natural.”
Rossi became famed for his wet weather prowess in his MotoGP days, taking his first premier class win in rain conditions back in 2000 and adding other dominant successes in the wet to…
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