Maybe. Valentino's dad, and ex-GP rider himself, Graziano has been in contact with Marco Belli asking loads of questions about dirt track. He also visited the practice day the Italians held. Marco sent the following to Boastie who forwarded it to us...
I went last Thursday at Tavullia, the city of Valentino Rossi, to meet his father Graziano. They are interested in what is sliding with a bike on the dirt and he asked me to join him with a proper bike (CCM FT510) to show him and explain all the stuff regarding our sport.
The interest was so good and real that we enjoyed a full morning testing on a private track where we could have oval configurations but also right corners.
Graziano was impressed (and I'm so happy and proud of this) on what you can do on the dirt and we are gong to meet again for some more fun and maybe some future programs regarding flat track discipline.
In the afternoon also Paolo Salvatelli (ex speedway rider -top 5 in Italy) was there to give some impressions.
Is there any chance to see Valentino on a proper flat track machine sometime???
Never know Boastie, never know
Ciao, Marco
bloody nora!.
ReplyDeleteInteresting. Last year at the Indy Mile, after the race my buddy and I were visiting the pits. We got to the Kawasaki pit and saw a rider sitting on one of the bikes that we didn't recognize from the race program. We stuck around for a minute to see who it was, there was another guy talking to Bill Werner, and he was commenting on the fact that the flattrack bikes were so different from GP bikes, no telemetry, no recording devices...it's all feel and intuition, versus GP bikes where you can pore over data from every part of the race track.
ReplyDeleteWe moved on. A little later, sure enough the GP rider took some hot laps on the Monster Energy Flattracker. We never learned who the rider was, but I will say he was wringing the bike out pretty well...