Following Valentino Rossi’s now infamous post Qatar race interview, and the very wild rumors of a Coca Cola sponsored private Yamaha team, which is highly improbable due to the new rules changes that are currently being discussed to limit prototype teams to only four riders, many delusioned fans would like to see the former World Champion back on a competitive machine, even if it is in a privateer team.
A factory bike in 2013 seems out of the question with the three aliens, Jorge Lorenzo, Dani Pedrosa and Casey Stoner seemingly set to stay in their respective teams, with much younger and hungrier riders riding satellite bikes ready to jump on that seat in Yamaha that could become available if Ben Spies should fail to meet the goals that Lin Jarvis has set out for him this season.
Based solely on sentimental values, Italian Rossi fans are proposing that he ride for Fausto Gresini’s San Carlo Team (Marco Melandri first launched and then denied that Rossi would be riding for Gresini rumor already in 2011) so he can also pay tribute to his late friend Marco Simoncelli.
What does Gresini have to say regarding this idea? In an long an exclusive interview with MotoGrandPrix.
com the Italian team manager was also asked what he thought of this and he said, “No comment! It’s pure fantasy because Valentino and I have never talked about this.
Obviously this makes me happy and I’m flattered that people can even imagine this remote hypothesis because that means that there is a very high regard for my team, but at the moment this is pure utopia.
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