The seven-time world champion will make his first appearance in the series since 2012 at this weekend’s three-hour Endurance round at Imola, having announced his retirement from MotoGP last August.
He has joined Vosse’s WRT Audi team that clinched the GTWCE overall and Sprint Cup titles last year with Dries Vanthoor and Charles Weerts. Rossi will contest the full GTWCE Sprint and Endurance schedule alongside Audi factory driver Frederic Vervisch, with Nico Muller joining them for the longer races.
Rossi enjoyed “a good day of testing” last month at Circuit Paul Ricard, getting within four tenths of the car’s fastest time in the morning session on Tuesday.
WRT’s co-GT programme manager Kurt Mollekens told Autosport last month that he was already “just one of the guys” and had settled in well.
Speaking ahead of Rossi’s first race weekend, Vosse said he was confident that Italian’s experience and previous knowledge would mean “he will cope with the pressure” in his…
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