Nine-time world champion Rossi called time on his 26-season grand prix motorcycle racing career at the end of last year, and has joined up with the crack sportscar outfit WRT for a full-season assault on GT World Challenge Europe across the Sprint and Endurance divisions.
The 43-year-old will be partnered with Audi factory driver Frederic Vervisch across both championships, with Nico Muller joining the pair for the Endurance rounds.
According to 1996 Zandvoort Formula 3 Masters winner Mollekens, who ran his single-seater team KTR until 2015 and joined the WRT set-up in 2020, Rossi has already settled well into the Belgian team and is relishing being treated as a “normal” person.
Asked by Autosport whether Rossi was treated like any other customer in the team’s five-car GTWCE roster, Mollekens said: “Absolutely. For me that was easy because I don’t follow MotoGP that much, although obviously I know who he is.
“But for our data guy it was a bit more complicated because…
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