Valentino Rossi also enchants on cars: at Misano the first victory in Gran Turismo

On the Misano circuit, where he had won 3 times in MotoGP, Valentino Rossi returned to the top step of the podium, achieving his first victory in the GT World Challenge Europe in race 2 together with his BMW driving partner Maxime Martin. For Rossi this is the second success on a four-wheeler after the one obtained on June 9 in Race-2 of the Road to Le Mans, the Endurance mini-trial that surrounds the 24-hour race. However, this has a particular flavor because it is the first in a championship and comes 6 years after the last official triumph, which arrived in Assen in MotoGP on 25 June 2017. The victory allows the BMW #46 of Team WRT to get back into the fight for the Sprint championship: Rossi and Martin are in fifth place with 12 points at 16.5 lengths from the leading duo formed by Mattia Drudi and Ricardo Feller, driving for Tresor Orange”.

Rossi: “Winning at Misano is special”

Maxime Martin was the author of an excellent first sprint in third position. Rossi took advantage of the pit stop to take the lead of the race and managed until the checkered flag. “Winning at Misano is special,” said Valentino after the catwalk in front of his fans. The Audi #11 driven by Legeret and Haase finished in second place, third was the other BMW of Team WRT driven by the duo Simmenauer-Neubauer. Rossi’s first victory in the GT World Challenge is the icing on the cake of a weekend which ends with a very positive balance: 21,856 attendances recorded over the weekend, of which 10,165 on Sunday.