Valentino Rossi gathered his friends in Tavullia for another year

Valentino Rossi He has retired from the MotoGP World Championship for a year, but he continues his appointment at the end of the season with riders, whether friends or rivals, in his 100 km of Champions that reaches its eighth edition and where the nine. The time world champion opened their Valentino Rossi’s Motor Ranch in Tavullia to share their good times of fuel and laughter.

The list for this eighth edition includes two of the three riders crowned world champions this year, Pecco Bagnaia (MotoGP) and Augusto Fernández (Moto2). Up to 9 Spanish riders have been invited to the Tavullia event on Friday and Saturday and there are 8 riders from the MotoGP category, all VR46 Academy with Jorge Martín, Àlex Rins and Fabio Di Giannantonio to add Andrea Dovizioso who competed for half of 2022 season.

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The list of pilots invited by Valentino Rossi to compete in this eighth 100 km. of Champions are: Francesco “Pecco” Bagnaia, Franco Morbidelli, Luca Marini, Marco Bezzecchi, Alex Rins, Jorge Martin, Fabio Di Giannantonio, Andrea Dovizioso, Danilo Petrucci, Tito Rabat, Celestino Vietti, Niccolò Antonelli, Pedro Acosta, Albert Arenas, Augusto Fernandez, Manuel Gonzalez, Mattina Pasini, Alessandro Zaccone, Andrea Migno, Alberto Surra, Xavier Artigas, Elia Bartolini, Filippo Farioli, Stefano Manzi, Lorenzo Baldassarri, Axel Bassani, Lorenzo Gabellini, Alessandro Gramigni, Michael Rinaldi, Sammy Halbert, Marco Belli , Federico Fuligni, Filippo Fuligni, Raffaele De Rosa, Matteo Ferrari, Alex Salvini, Matteo Patacca, Gautier Paulin and Ferran Cardús.

The program is the same as in the last editions: it starts on the 25th Friday morning with qualifying, and in the afternoon with the “American race” on the iconic double oval of the Motor Ranch. Saturday is the day of the 100Km race: after the morning warmup, the race starts at 2:00 pm, and the 40 pilots, organized in pairs, will compete throughout the afternoon. In the evening the awards ceremony will take place, which are always very curious prizes.

In addition, this year’s event will serve for Valentino Rossi to officially open his new store in Tavullia, where the ‘Bar Pizzeria da Rossi’ used to be in the central Via Cesare Battisti next to the town square where gathered the fans for the celebrations. It has been completely redesigned and all products from the VR46 world will be available for purchase, including the VR46 Riders Academy collection and the newly born VR Equipment, the line of technical clothing and accessories for Motocross, Mountain bike, Active training, they are all products. designed by ‘Il Dottore’.