#valentino rossi 2019

[sebeztappen]

fake hater i saw you gazing at your sworn enemy with a tender look in your eyes

[myrquez]

found this while scrolling down on motorsport images… oh-

like. oh?

[kingofthering]

☼ every rosquez podium » argentina 2019 [34/34]

1. Marc Marquez (Repsol Honda) 2. Valentino Rossi (Yamaha Factory) 3. Andrea Dovizioso (Ducati Team)

[leoisstillalive]

happy saturday! here is marc marquez comparing shaking vale's hand to kissing a girl:

i find it funny that valentino gets a bit like??? flustered??? about this. like he laughs until marc says he never had a problem. and then his smile drops a bit and he fiddles with his earring and answers in quite a cold way. i think marc made it all too real by referencing the actual issues that they have, which is sad

[muxas-world]

Are you the biggest rosquez shiper or is estafnia (valentino mother) the actual captain of the ship???

Art 1 art 2

[kwisatzworld]

A rookie and his dads 🥹🫶

[jam-packed]

thank god im not a journalist cus the amount of eye contact would kill me

[hifigp]

All Valentino Rossi factory Yamaha YZR-M1 2009-2020.

[batsplat]

marc marquez letting an italian pass him at assen? *insert here a generic joke about rossi being mad*

had marc been a real hater he’d take off the wheels and win by 16 seconds riding only chassis after receiving a tyre pressure warning

a sequel to phillip island 2003, I like it conceptually

this is his problem. (giving him a pass this weekend, see you after the summer break.) he's not enough of a hater these days, he needs to find his way again... he needs to remember some of his best work is fuelled by spite... I remember his misano 2017 where he simply refused to lose that race after those italian fuckers had gotten his head hot... he knows this is how his brain works, he can channel this, he's seen the script... misano 2019, let's not forget, he'd just lost two back-to-back dramatic last lap duels... sure, he might have been walking the championship with insulting ease, but he still had something to prove... and what does he do? he stalks the yamaha riders on friday. in misano. he comes out on track during saturday qualifying ahead of dovi and valentino, decides to dawdle and let them past. and then he jumps on valentino's rear tyre. in misano. in the first year in which valentino just wasn't an on-track rival any more he had any real competitive reason to fuck with. but had the intention of using valentino to go faster. in misano

and then he gets super mad about the resulting drama and ends up snatching the win in the subsequent last lap duel against the rookie brat who is way harder to be a hater of!! that was proper hating, like that was a weekend long masterclass in hating. man touched down on italian soil and had a mission

anyway unfortunately I do think it's harder these days, like you can't just do that to any italian? what's he gonna do at assen, get all heated up when fighting diggia - a man I regularly forget does actually have a proper vr46 link now courtesy of riding for their team - for pee five? back in the day, he did have the decency to only ever finish behind an italian at assen when one of said italians was valentino (on three occasions, '13 '15 '17)... he used to show some respect for the narrative... but y'know some good old spite probably really would help him in weekends like that to keep it together a bit more. he's got to get something going with pecco for his own sake. in assen he probably never had the pace with all the spite in the world... next year, we'd better be cooking something special

[ray935sworld]

The last time Valentino Rossi had raced in Sepang, was in 2019. He didn't know it'd be the last time. In 2020 and 2021 it wasn't on the calender due to COVID. He had the fastest lap and missed out on a podium with taking 4th place.

Too much explanation in the tags, sorry

[formulaocean]

Helmet Swaps

Just because this interests me here's a list of what I could find about who on the current grid has swapped with who. I'll try to link the sources as I go (one's which feature the text if I can) as there are just too many pictures and lengthy quotes to include.

Some drivers have extensive collections (read Fernando Alonso) and others are a lot more discerning, Lewis Hamilton described it as "the ultimate sign of respect" and that he "doesn't look upon it lightly".

Note- this is only for those involved in motorsports and does not include celebrities or tribute helmets, only direct swaps. Also bear in mind that not every swap would be publicised on social media so this is by no means exhaustive!

Max Verstappen: Fernando Alonso 2015 , Daniel Ricciardo 2019, Sebastian Vettel 2022. He has also given a number of helmets to his team including Christian Horner, Helmut Marko, and Jonathan Wheatley.

Sergio Perez: Jenson Button 2015, Sebastian Vettel 2020, Daniel Ricciardo at some point. Likely more but he's a lot more private online.

Lewis Hamilton: Fernando Alonso 2012, Sebastian Vettel 2018, Michael Schumacher, potentially a few more.

George Russell: Fernando Alonso 2021, Antonio Giovinazzi 2021, Daniel Ricciardo 2022, Sebastian Vettel 2022.

Charles Leclerc: Marcus Ericsson 2018, Fernando Alonso 2018, Daniel Ricciardo 2019, Sebastian Vettel 2020. Also Fabio Quatararo.

Carlos Sainz: Lando Norris 2020. All I could find but likely more!

Lando Norris: Carlos Sainz 2020, Fernando Alonso 2021 , Daniel Ricciardo 2022. Also Fabio Quatararo and there were rumours with Valentino Rossi.

Oscar Piastri: Fernando Alonso 2023, Zhou Guanyu 2023.

Fernando Alonso: Literally has a museum. Practically every driver is involved in some way and is linked elsewhere, there are rumours that he has one of every driver that he has raced against from Michael Schumacher to Nicholas Latifi.

Lance Stroll: Very private online and thus can't find anything! He likely has a couple.

Esteban Ocon: Fernando Alonso 2017, Mick Schumacher 2022. All I could find but maybe more!

Pierre Gasly: Fernando Alonso 2022, Antonio Giovinazzi 2021. All I could find but maybe more!

Alex Albon: Nicholas Latifi 2022. All I could find but maybe more!

Logan Sargeant: Very private online and thus can't find anything! I hope he gets a couple by the end of the year at least.

Yuki Tsunoda: Fernando Alonso 2022. All I could find but maybe more!

Daniel Ricciardo: Fernando Alonso 2014, Jenson Button 2015, Marcus Ericsson 2018, Max Verstappen 2019, Charles Leclerc 2019, Nico Hulkenberg 2019, George Russell 2022, Lando Norris 2022, Zhou Guanyu 2022. Sergio Perez at some point.

Zhou Guanyu: Daniel Ricciardo 2022, Fernando Alonso 2022, Valteri Bottas 2022, Oscar Piastri 2023.

Valteri Bottas: Fernando Alonso 2015, Felipe Massa 2016, Jenson Button 2016, Zhou Guanyu 2022. He also gave Lewis one of his in 2021 and I choose to believe that he has one of Lewis's too.

Nico Hulkenberg: Daniel Ricciardo 2019. All I could find but likely more!

Kevin Magnusson: Romain Grosjean 2020. All I could find but likely more!

Sebatian Vettel: Lewis Hamilton 2018, Nico Rosberg 2018, Charles Leclerc 2020, Sergio Perez 2020, Fernando Alonso 2021, George Russell 2022, Max Verstappen 2022. Kimi Raikonen 2018

[ross1fum1]

Extract from an interview with Valentino with Radio Deejay from 2019 where he talks about Marquez

[For context: they were talking about Valentino's return to MotoGP after his leg injury]

🗣️: And then somewhere between the madness and the consciousness there are riders like your friend Marquez. Which is a bit of an intermediate figure, isn't he? Because I don't think he's crazy, he just has a very high sense of the limit. He grew up riding these bikes, he has enormous confidence in the electronics of his bike, he rides hanging on the bike. Basically he does sailing, he almost doesn't do motorcycling. But every now and then he takes a little too much risks, right?

V: Yes, Marquez is someone who risks a lot, he is very very brave to the point perhaps of not being afraid. So he's someone who falls a lot, who always looks for the limit, but he's very good and he's 25 years old. He takes these incredible hits with the bike that explodes, then he gets up as if nothing had happened, goes to get the other bike, fixes his shoulder -

🗣️: Did he have shoulder surgery?

V: He had surgery, yes. Because it (the shoulder) was starting to come out a little too often

🗣️: Do you watch him? When you have a rival like Marquez, even though you are Valentino Rossi, the strongest of all time, when someone like this (Marquez) arrives and wins so much... Maybe you want to know if he has some secrets to copy, right?

V: Among the riders we do this a lot, we all pay attention to what the others do. You also look at what they eat, what they drink, maybe I look at my teammate (Vinales), now you follow all their training on Instagram etc…

[kingofthering]

endless list of random motogp things - tip of the hat for first timers

cota 2013 (marc's first win) | catalunya 2019 (fabio's first podium)

[leoisstillalive]

marc unable to look away from vale's earring is so real

[muxas-world]

And he used his firths alary to buy these damn replicas "he actually had posters of mine" valentino rossi, you will never see the gates of heaven. I'm afraid your sins are too strong

[kwisatzworld]

Q: Valentino, when you won your first race in the premier class it was 500 in Donington 2000, you were 21. Fabio beside you was only one year old, so maybe the first year you will fight against a rider could be your son. How does it feel? Vale: yeah we speak now exactly about this, I said that he can be my son. He is very very very young, '99 so it means that he also two years younger than my brother and he is already in MotoGP. He have a strange career, arrive like a genius but after for some reasons he lose a little bit away. But I think that this year with this team and this bike, he has a very important chance to demonstrate his speed. So it will be interesting and I’m very sorry that he can be my son. And he’s also one year earlier than me in MotoGP because when I arrive I had already 21 I think, so he’s younger than me.