A twelfth and a sixteenth place in the first two races of the 2021 World Championship combined with the spot of the penultimate pitch conquered in the starting grid of the second edition Qatar Grand Prix, worst career result in all classes.
The nightmare start of Valentino Rossi's MotoGP World Championship begins to cause discussion and among social networks, former champions and experts, the consideration has begun to spread that for the nine-time world champion the time has really come to end his long career. 26 years of victories and satisfactions.
After the blunt attack of the former world champion Marco Lucchinelli according to which the Doctor has not won since 2009 and it would be better to stop looking for excuses for his lack of performance, an avalanche of social comments was followed on the basis of which for Valentino it would be better to say enough.
Opinions, words and poisons at full throttle made even more topical by the disastrous start to the season of the champion from Tavullia who spent this year from the factory Yamaha to the Petronas team.
On the web, Lucchinelli's thrust gathers consensus: "In particular with the fact that VR46 takes the bike away from a young man.
Unfortunately, the world championship circus is no longer as it once was, it is now a commercial industry, it must be adapted to the vast majority of the people "says a disappointed fan. But there are also those who defend it:" 2 swallows do not make a spring.
Always there like the hawks to say stupid ... tell him that he is unpleasant and whatever he does, we know that he is. "
Another very complicated weekend for Rossi who claims to have lived the worst moments but at the time in Ducati:" It is not was my worst qualification.
I think I did worse when I was in Ducati, "commented Rossi after Saturday's qualifying session in Qatar which saw him finish next to last.
Saturday was really black, I was really slow. Then luckily we talked and we changed a bit. of things, I was able to ride better, so there are some small positive things ".
Positive signs all to be verified in the next races starting with the Portuguese Grand Prix in Portimao where Valentino will have to try to make up for it, assuming that the bike provided to him by Yamaha Petronas and the Michelin tires allow him to continue to have fun, to have fun but also to be able to say that he no longer wanted to see him on the track he was wrong.
