Valentino Rossi debuted in 2000 in the main category of the Motorcycle World Championship.. Il Doctor competed two years in 500cc with Hondafinished second overall in his first season and became world champion in 2001. In 2002 the MotoGP season and the Italian conquered the 2002 and 2003 titles.
The one from Tavullia felt undervalued at Honda. Furthermore, it is tired to say he won for the motorcycle and not because of his talent. So, For the 2004 campaign he signed with Yamaha and with the Japanese manufacturer he holds four other championship crowns (2004, 2005, 2008 and 2009).
Lin Jarvisgeneral director of Yamaha until 2024, a year in which he decided to retire, gave an interview to the ‘Moto Grand Prix Club’. Here, the Briton reviews the most important points of his professional career and one of them is signing Valentino Rossi for eternal rivals Honda.
“At that time, David Brivio He is the director of the Yamaha MotoGP team and He has a good relationship with Rossi. It has been an incredible year, with many strange encounters. One of the Brno (Czech Republic) is one of many, but there We told him: ‘Let’s clear. If we do this and that – different requests that we don’t know Il Doctor-…are you with us?’. Valentino has assured us that he will go to Yamaha.”
That meeting at the Brno circuit facilities was at the Mobile Clinic, at the doctors’ tables for lunch and dinner. Jarvis remembers that, whenever they heard a motorcycle nearby, “We hid under the table” because at that time the ’46’ had a contract with Honda.
Source: La Verdad
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