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Video: The ordeal of Valentino Rossi: he added his third fall in a row the day Yamaha came out of the crisis
2024 Author: Nicholas Abramson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-10 16:41
Not all are joys today in the Yamaha box. While Maverick Viñales won and ended a drought of victories that had already lasted eight months, Valentino Rossi hit rock bottom going to the ground for the third consecutive race. An abandonment that left him on his knees in the gravel, as if trying to take on a very complicated situation.
In addition, it has not been a fall to use, but rather Valentino Rossi defeated Takaaki Nakagami, LRC team rider, Honda satellite. A very strong accident that could have worse physical consequences, although it seems that both pilots have saved the accident without serious injuries, only with some bruising.
Rossi has failed Q1 in four of the eight races in 2019
The accident occurred on lap six, shortly after Álex Rins crashed as well. Rossi was in twelfth place in search of a top ten when he lost the Yamaha ahead and ran over Nakagami. The Japanese in fact had to be attended by the stewards in the middle of the circuit, while Rossi worried about him.
This is how Valentino Rossi sees the other side of what happened to him in Barcelona, when he sees the one who was overwhelmed by Jorge Lorenzo. Now Rossi has been the cause of the strike that is his third consecutive abandonment. And it is that to the one of Barcelona and to this one of Assen it is necessary to add the weekend for the oblivion that was marked in Mugello.
The worst thing is that it gives the feeling that As the Yamaha grows in performance it is Valentino Rossi who declines. When the bike is difficult to ride, it is always 'Il Dottore' who manages to save the furniture, but since the M1 has shown itself to be more competitive, not only Maverick Viñales surpasses it, but so do Fabio Quartararo and even Franco Morbidelli.
In Assen, Valentino Rossi had to go through Q1 again because of a lap that was taken away in the last moment of FP3. The worst thing was that Rossi had no chance to overcome the first round of qualifying, seeing himself outmatched by Rins, as expected, but also by Pol Espargaró and Pecco Bagnaia.
For now Valentino Rossi has passed through Q1 five times in eight races, and in four of them he has failed to pass it. Numbers that collide with the three poles of Fabio Quartararo or the good results on the grid by Maverick Viñales. Many see the withdrawal of 'Il Dottore' even before his contract ends in 2020.
In his mammoth career in the World Cup, which began in 1996, only once had Valentino Rossi had three consecutive retirements. It was in the last three races of 2011, his first year with Ducati. In spite of everything Rossi remains in fifth position in the drivers' world championship, but with Fabio Quartararo just five points and Maverick Viñales seven.
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