{"id":247288,"date":"2010-01-29T08:59:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T13:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/01\/29\/report-motogp-racer-valentino-rossi-takes-on-formula-one-impre\/"},"modified":"2010-01-29T08:59:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T13:59:00","slug":"report-motogp-racer-valentino-rossi-takes-on-formula-one-impresses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/247288","title":{"rendered":"Report: MotoGP racer Valentino Rossi takes on Formula One, impresses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/motorsports\/\" rel=\"tag\">Motorsports<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/hirings-firings\/\" rel=\"tag\">Hirings\/Firings\/Layoffs<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/ferrari\/\" rel=\"tag\">Ferrari<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/motorcycles\/\" rel=\"tag\">Motorcycle<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/racing\/\" rel=\"tag\">Racing<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/formulaone.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/21\/rossi-completes-ferrari-test-on-high-just-misses-lap-record\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"4\" hspace=\"0\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2010\/01\/rossi-ferrari.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MotoGP racing star Valentino Rossi has ventured from two wheels to four <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/11\/19\/valentino-rossi-samples-the-bmw-m3-gts-drives-away-in-m3-sedan\/\">a few times<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2008\/11\/29\/rossi-in-rosso-motogp-star-drives-ferrari-f2008-at-mugello\/\">in the past<\/a>, and he&#8217;s always come away smiling when given the chance to strut his stuff on a Formula One track. This latest testing session, though, has left many highly impressed and others understandably worried.<\/p>\n<p>Various reports have put Yamaha&#8217;s star rider into the Ducati paddock come 2011 or so, but after registering times around the Mugello circuit in an F2008 racer that were just two-tenths of a second behind Kimi Raikkonen&#8217;s outright lap record of 1:21.67 (set in the same car, for what it&#8217;s worth), Yamaha team manager Davide Brivio said, &#8220;The greatest danger is <a href=\"http:\/\/autoblog.com\/make\/ferrari\">Ferrari<\/a>&#8230; I have to be worried about these excellent times because Valentino really could get the desire to change sport.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For its part, Ferrari seems very pleased with Rossi&#8217;s excellent performance, and the Italian supercar manufacturer saw fit to send out a nice press release on the matter that you&#8217;ll find after the break. Kudos, Valentino&#8230; and good luck!<\/p>\n<p>[Sources: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autocar.co.uk\/News\/NewsArticle.aspx?AR=246944\">Autocar<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/formulaone.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/21\/rossi-completes-ferrari-test-on-high-just-misses-lap-record\/\">The New York Times<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/01\/29\/report-motogp-racer-valentino-rossi-takes-on-formula-one-impre\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Continue reading <em>Report: MotoGP racer Valentino Rossi takes on Formula One, impresses<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/01\/29\/report-motogp-racer-valentino-rossi-takes-on-formula-one-impre\/\">Report: MotoGP racer Valentino Rossi takes on Formula One, impresses<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\">Autoblog<\/a> on Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:59:00 EST.  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This latest testing session, though, has left many highly impressed and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}