Rossi competes in endurance race at Monza

Multiple MotoGP World Champion Valentino Rossi travelled to Monza at the weekend in order to take part in the Blancpain Endurance Series. The Ducati rider, driving a Ferrari 458 Italia, finished the race 18th overall.

Rossi, whose brief switch to four wheels was not his first – having sampled World Rally and Formula 1 machinery over the past ten years – travelled to Italy following a trying start to the MotoGP season in Qatar.

He drove alongside friend Uccio Salucci and finished eighth in class. Winning was the Marc VDS Racing Team – which runs Mika Kallio and Scott Redding in Moto2 – with its line-up of Bas Leinders, Markus Palttala and Maxime Martin

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