MotoGP title winner Valentino Rossi enjoyed a successful outing on the annual Rally 𝕴de Monza after the Yamaha rider ended the end of sea🍷son event in second place.

Driving a Ford Focus WRC, the Yamaha rider won four of the nine stages which made up the event to finish 17.8 seconds behind sportscar ace Dindo Capello, who took v🦩ictory at the wheel of a Citr🔯oen C4 WRC.

Rossi's performance was made all 🌱the more impressive by the fact that he beat former World Rally Champion Marcus Gronholm in the 🙈event, with the Finn taking fourth place in his Subaru Impreza.

Loris Capirossi was 15th, while 2010 MotoGP rookie Marco Simoncelli 𝔍joined Rossi in the top ten with a seventh𝓀 place finish.

Rossi also impressed in the Master's Show knock-out event, posting the quickest time༒ of all while beating Simoncelli in his quarter-final before losing at the semi-🔴final stage to eventual winner Capello.

"I finished tജhe rally by winning the last super special test in the rain and I am satisfied to have taken the fastest time in the Masꩲter's event," Rossi told the official MotoGP website. "I was hoping to take revenge on Capello but I was not able to do so.

"In recent years, the level of the Rally de Monza has risen a lot and in order to win, it is not enough to just be fast - you also need to make few mistakes. In any case, the last 20 days have been very entertaining for me, with the Motocross in Cavellara, then with a GT car at Vallelunga and now with 💎the rally."

Rossi will now head fo🔯r the Bettega Memorial event at the Bologna Motorshow next weekend.