"Hello? I am Valentino Rossi. Yes, the pilot. I am, I swear. Mrs. Italica, I wanted to congratulate you: you are much more 'tough' than me: a real warrior. If I had your energy, I would continue to run for others 20 years old. Can I invite you to one of my races as soon as the World Championship starts again? This is how you reveal your secret. " Valentino phoned Italica Grondona, the 102-year-old Genoese lady who defeated the Coronavirus. "I had made a wish: to know the Doctor. And he called me. He was kind. And nice," said the elderly patient. Until last year, the woman who is recovering from a facility in Sestri Ponente lived alone: soon she will return to the RSA where she lives and where she has a giant poster for Valentino "I am a fan of hers. I have a photograph of her and a keyring with Rossi's number 46 that I attached to the walker. You know I told her that I also run with my walker ".
Italica loves speed, in addition to the GP bike, she reveals that she also has passion for Formula One and is a Ferrari fan. After contact with Rossi he now has the desire to meet Vettel. But motorcycles are the real passion. "They always drove me crazy. I still remember, it will be more than 80 years ago and then I lived near Porta Soprana. One day a young man arrives at the newsagent, he will be 25 years old and he says 'Do you want to take a ride?'. Of course I replied. We went to Porta Principe: it was beautiful, but too short. " Her husband didn't like motors at all. "He wasn't even a dancer, I suffered a lot. It's over that we divorced." And she got back on a motorbike. "I had a friend, he was going fast. We always went around: and there was nothing more beautiful than the thrill of speed. To compliment him, he always repeated that he didn't even seem to have a passenger behind him" .
