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Rossi Plans To Race
In 2021
V
alentino Rossi has used the
interview broadcast on Cycle
News to state he plans to race
in 2021, where he will likely be
racing in the Petronas SRT outfit
by swapping places with Fabio
Quartararo.
The Italian says he has the
motivation to continue but won't
get the 'five or six' races he had
initially hoped for to make a deci-
sion on his future.
"I am in a difficult situation be-
cause, like I said, my first option
is to try to continue," said Rossi.
"I have enough motivation and I
want to continue. It's very impor-
tant to understand the level of
competition because especially
in the second part of last year we
suffered very
much, and too
many times I
was too slow,
and I had to
fight outside of
the top five. In
my mind, I had another year with
the factory team, and I needed
time to decide. For me, I need
like five or six races, with the
new chief mechanic, and some
modifications in the team to un-
derstand if I can be strong.
"The problem is that there's
no racing. So, with the virus, we
cannot race. So, I will have to
decide before racing because in
the most optimistic situation we
can race in the second half of the
season, so August or September
we hope. But I have to make my
decision before. But anyway, I
want to continue, but I've had to
make this decision without any
races.
"It's not the best way to stop
because the situation is that
maybe we don't race in 2020.
So, it's fairer for me to do an-
other championship and stop at
the end of the next, so I hope to
continue in 2021." CN
Valentino Rossi
thinks he'll stay on
for 2021.
No Early MotoGP
Berth For Marini
L
uca Marini believes the Covid-19 pandemic
has squashed any hopes he had of joining the
MotoGP class for 2021.
The half-brother to Valentino Rossi, Marini sug-
gested MotoGP teams will likely want to keep the
status quo in terms of rider line-ups, rather than
take a gamble on riders from Moto2.
"If I were a MotoGP team, I would try to leave
things as they are at the moment," Marini told mo-
torsport.com. "I am not in a hurry, sincerely; I like
Moto2," Marini added. "I think it is a category that
is growing a lot, increasing its value both because
of the talent of the riders and the level of the bikes.
This is something that I really like and it is also
important for my future growth.
"The goal to get to MotoGP definitely remains,
but I have to stay focused on Moto2 and get great
results, because in the end it is only with the results
that you can move forward." CN
Luca Marini says
he's happy in
Moto2 and in no
hurry to get to
MotoGP.
