Bagnaia, his heir, wins the GP of goodbye to Rossi

It could not be otherwise. The last race of Valentino Rossi, No. 432 of his triumphant and brilliant life, the one in which he closes 26 seasons in the Motorcycle World Championship, with 115 victories and 9 world titles, with 76.226 fans, in the layout of Cheste (Valencia) and millions of viewers paying homage to him, he could not end otherwise, with the victory of his compatriot ‘Pecco’ Bagnaia (Ducati), whom he has designated as his heir, and with the ‘Doctor’ in a more than worthy 10th position. “I wanted to dedicate this race and this victory to ‘Vale’, who has given everything for motorcycling and for us, his students. He could not fail,” said Bagnaia as he took the podium.

The Motorcycle World Championship, the sport of two wheels, today dismissed one of its great myths and, of course, its greatest icon in the last three decades. With the whole circuit thanking him, with thousands of followers wearing T-shirts with the inscription of “bye, bye, Vale & rdquor; and curly yellow manes, who, starting tomorrow, will start a new life as a father (or almost, as it will be next February), car driver, teacher and manager of the VR46 MotoGP team, his next challenge, follow giving birth to champions in the present and future.

Ronaldo, one more fan

Here in Chester, there have been four days of farewell, tears and tributes. Here are Ronaldo, his friend, in the absence of the North American quarterback Tom Brady “I would have loved if he had come & rdquor ;, Casey Stoner, Dani Pedrosa and a lot of drivers who have paid him honors on a track presided over by a large mural and huge portrait with the legend ‘grazie Vale & rdquor ;.

The day that Valentino Rossi leaves, the day that two huge ones like Pedro Acosta and Raúl Fernández are born, the day that Jorge Martín, who was commanding for a lot of laps in today’s race, becomes the ‘rookie’ of the year ( like his two compatriots in Moto3 and Moto2), it was the day chosen by Ducati to achieve his first treble in MotoGP history on the podium with Bagnaia, Jorge Martín and Jack Miller. And it was also, yes, the first GP in which no rider of the very champion Repsol Honda raced, due to injuries to Marc Márquez, Pol Espargaró and Stefan Bradl.

Total party

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Rossi, who received the tribute and an authentic bathing of the masses of the public, pilots, organizers, commissioners, teams and sponsors, with great Valencian fireworks, insisted today that his greatest achievement and pride “has been to get millions of sports fans to Come and see our races and, logically, getting hooked on them, because we are, by far, the most exciting sport that exists & rdquor ;.

‘Vale’ leaves, but his work remains, which is not only all this wonderful environment and this stellar sport but his heirs, his students and friends, as well as the devotion of millions of fans, who are part of his tribe. Needless to say, Rossi entered the ‘pit lane’ crossing a corridor with the more than a thousand inhabitants of the ‘paddock’ who gave him a massive hug and goodbye from all the fans, while almost 100,000 people sang the “Okay, Okay Okay! & Rdquor ;, which has flooded the circuits for 26 years.