Gabri Rodrigo told the reasons for retiring at the age of 25

The pilot of Barcelona Gabriel Rodrigowho raced his career in the world championship with an Argentine license, announced on Wednesday his decision to end his career as a professional driver at the age of 25. In a video statement through his social networks, The Hispanic-Argentine explained his will detailing his various reasons and revealed that he has many projects and ambitions for the future.

“I want to give you the news that I have decided to end my sports career. The truth is that I have this idea in mind and I want to give you the reasons why I made this decision,” Gabri begins explaining.

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“It all started in a stronger way last year when shortly after signing my contract to move up to moto2 I had a very serious accident in training where I saw my life in danger and that, with everything of the misfortunes we’ve had recently as colleagues, has It made me reconsider the situation, if it’s worth it for me to continue taking so many risks every time I ride a bike. In the end, I have many projects in mind , many ambitions, I like my Life, I like my family, the people around me. side and I’m not willing to keep putting him in danger and lose him to continue riding a motorcycle. It’s the most important reason that has made me make this decision.”

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“I am happy to have been able to take it now. I have been discussing this with my psychologist for a long time, it helped me a lot to reach this point of maturity and to decide on this important matter for At the beginning of this year, I told Elia ( Rabasa, his girlfriend and since the summer his wife), the most important pillar of trust that I have, I told him that I don’t want to continue racing any longer, Want to continue testing the new adventure in moto2 and want to give my 100% but it won’t last long, that I saw it in a short time and after I had a shoulder injury that made me run a large part of the races this year in bad shape, which also stopped me this year”

“Thank you for stopping, it gave me time to listen to my body and heart and there is no point in continuing to run because if I do, it will be because of sadness and grief for what my personality has. In all those this year. But what I really want is to stop, devote my time to other things, to the people who love me without them because of dedicating myself to this passion and work, I’m very lucky to be able to do my passion in a job where I make money and I’m very proud, I get a lot of special memories and incredible people I’ve met. What I am today is thanks to what I lived training this sport and can I say goodbye to this sport with a smile”

“Certainly if I delay all the love with which I remember this sport may be drunk and I don’t want to, I want to remember this stage with a lot of love. Thanks to everyone, they have been incredible years and it’s time to say goodbye”.

Son of the president of the publishing group RBA, Richard RodrigoGabri started bikes late because it was difficult for him to convince his family and they tried to get the idea out of his mind until in 2010 he started participating in Catalan competitions for a long time and eventually they turned to finance to him when he made the jump to the World Championship.

He competed in the FIM CEV Repsol in 2014 and made his first appearance in the World Championship as a guest, as well as attending several races in the Italian Speed ​​​​​​Championship (CIV). In 2015, he debuted as a rider in the Moto3 World Championship with a permanent place in the RBA Racing team on a KTM, a team where he would repeat the next two years, starting to stand out in 2017 by adding 2 poles and fourth. as the best result. His designation comes in 2018 with his first podium, third at the Catalunya GP, and seventh overall.

Between 2019 and 2021 he joined the Kömmerling Gresini Moto3, but his campaigns were hampered by injuries and crashes. For 2020 he changed his ’19’ to ‘2’, in honor of his recently deceased brother Juan, another blow added to the loss of young drivers these years. In 2021 he took the second podium of his record, a third at Mugello.

For 2022, he proposed to jump to Moto2 with the Pertamina Mandalika SAG Team, but between his head telling him to stop and the latest shoulder injury, he finally decided to stop racing and focus on other aspect. In fact, he stepped down from the Kalex after Le Mans said he needed shoulder surgery and the next news on the networks was his withdrawal.