TURIN – Valentino Rossi get back on track. After a bad first game in 3 Hours of Monza (retirement due to teammate burnout Augustus Farfus) and have GP experience of Jerez as the owner of MotoGP Team VR46 and the advisor of I’m sorry Bagnaia (also checked in holes Ducati), the Doctor restarts the engines of his goodness BMW M4 GT3 of the team Wrt for Product Hatch in the second stage of the GP World Challenge, the first with the formula Sprint. Tomorrow practice and qualify, Sunday two one-hour races sharing the wheel with an artist Maxime Martin (father has won four times 24 Hours of Le Mans) and live tv Sky Sports.
Valentino wants to immediately erase Monza’s “zero” on the historic English track in the county of Kent where last year, in his debut in the GT3 endurance championship andAudi R8 LMS he had scored his first points. “It’s good to start the Sprint Cup, because it’s a different kind of commitment than the endurance race – says Rossi -. I know Brands Hatch, it’s a very special track, fast and intense, with a lot of ups and downs and a very British feeling. I really liked it last year and we got a good result in Race-2, taking the eighth place and the second best part of the race. We will see how the performance and speed will be and we hope to be as competitive as in Monza».
Where with his BMW number 46 he had started from the second box at the start, a position he held until a mistake and a technical problem after handing over the wheel to Farfus. Alongside him this time will be only Martin, who surprisingly has less experience than Valentino on the English circuit. «Brands Hatch is a special track, open only a few days a year for testing – explains Belgium -. I have raced there only once, a long time ago, so it will be nice to race with the new BMW and Valentino, who has experience at this track since last year. We can’t wait to participate in this great event, it will be tough and very competitive, but that’s why we’re here!».