Valentino Rossi left his pupils well in MotoGP

2025 promises to be a historic year for Valentino Rossi and his brilliant idea of ​​creating in March 2014 between Tavullia and Pesaro a support structure for Italian motorcycling. He raised a generation of riders, most of them born between 1994 and 1998 when he was already a figure in the World Championship in the smaller categories and four of them were full members of MotoGP. These riders also served as an incentive for him so when he reached rock bottom in his failed adventure with Ducati (2011-2012), he was able to give himself a second chance that lasted until 2021 at the age of 42.

And even though he is now making a career in endurance events on four wheels, he rarely misses an appointment with his students with dirt bikes at the Ranch he owns and is in permanent contact with them, especially the four who ride in MotoGP all year. throughout the campaign. And he was there to celebrate two consecutive MotoGP world titles for Pecco Bagnaia, VR46 Academy’s first MotoGP champion.

In 2025 the VR46 Academy pilots reached their highest point. Three of them will be official factory riders, Pecco Bagnaia on Ducati Lenovo, Luca Marini on Honda HRC and Marco Bezzecchi on Aprilia Racing, and the fourth, Frankie Morbidelli, joins the VR46 range already this year is releasing new stripes within the Ducati family because in their box they will have for the first time a unit from the same generation as the factory team, a GP25 for Fabio di Giannantonio, a Roman rider who has not yet grown in the Tavullia orbit.

Valentino, who will become a father for the second time in the first quarter of 2025, intends to reduce his endurance program and will not do a double campaign in the WEC and the GT World Challenge Europe in 2025, marking a program of only a dozen events in one of two competitions. Having more free weekends, he will use them to take his students to more MotoGP Grands Prix. Less talking on cell phones and more talking in the motorhome.