Drama for Valentino Rossi at Le Mans: his dream ends with an accident when he was the leader

It’s being a dream debut. But this morning, Valentino Rossi began to understand the magnitude of the victory won at 24 Hours of Le Mans. To win the ‘race races’ you not only have to be better than your rivals. Also, you have to fight, and in some ways, let the race itself choose you as the winner. And this time, at the premiere of Valentino Rossi in fiction 24 Hours of Le Mans in class GT3 (third category), the race abandoned him.

At night, one of his two companions, Omani driver Ahmad Al Harthy had many complications keeping the car on the track on a wet asphalt and sliding in the rain autumn at midnight. He went wide at one of the chicanes on the track. And when returning to the asphalt after passing through the hole, when giving the throttle in the wet, the driver lost control of car #46 and he went to the gravel and the walleither. Despite attempts to continue, nothing could be done.

Valentino Rossi and his teammates Al Harthy and Martin Maxime had to abandon the race after an accident when their car was first in its category (GT3). Rossi would have to wait another year to return and challenge the French event again.

Rossi leads Le Mans with a fine stint

At Le Mans you can never take anything for granted. At any moment you can be left behind and what seems like a piece of cake can end up in the trash. And that’s what happened to Valentino Rossi and his crew, the one in the car. bmw number of WRT team. The debut of the world motorcycling legend at the 24 Hours of Le Mans ended in a cruel and inappropriate way after more than two years of work and learning behind the wheel for the 9-time world champion of the motorcycling world championship in global categories. Dramatic for the interest of the transalpine champion.

It ended in an accident involving one of his teammates when they had been in the lead for several hours. From seeing glory, to abandonment. A pitcher of cold water like rain falling at that moment, after midnight on a cold night at La Sarthe Circuit.

The night often brings spectacular hits on this track, and even more so when the weather is so unpredictable, with intermittent showers complicating things for the drivers. Valentino Rossi made the third reveal of the crew, riding his BMW near the end of the first 4 hours of the race..

His teammates did an extraordinary job, coming back from 12th starting position in GT3 to lead the category. Valentino Rossi had the difficult role of leading the race, under the spotlight, in his debut at the 24 Hours of Le Mans at the wheel of a car.far from your two-wheeled comfort zone. But he doesn’t seem to care.

‘Il Dottore’, as he has done many times on a motorcycle, led without error, with a solid, strong stint, without showing signs of weakness, had to face a complicated stretch of the race due to the sinking of day and the arrival of night, with Visibility is always complicated on a track full of cars (more than 60 in all categories).

So, After 2 hours and 2 minutes behind the wheel, he got out of the car after his first stint, leaving him in the lead as the 6 hour race was reached. Things are looking good for ‘Vale’, but at Le Mans you can’t take anything for granted. There are many races left, many possible script twists, many driver errors, dubbing of cars from higher categories and lots of tension. But most of all, there remained the dreaded night with a visitor that could change everything: the rain. And that ended Valentino’s dream.