The current MotoGP rider who shares a key attribute with a prime Valentino Rossi
Valentino Rossi's key ally Matteo Flamigni shares secrets fr💝om inside the paddock

Part of 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Valentino Rossi’s genius was how he gained an edge off-track, poring through data to understand secrets of MotoGP.
That trait has continued via 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marco Bezzecchi, Rossi’s protege, according to the man who should know better 🀅than anyone.
Matteo Flamigni was famously Ros𓆏si’s data engineer throughout the 🦋glory years, and today works as Bezzecchi’s crew chief within the VR46 team.
He noted the sim✨i൲larities between the riders to : “Marco is effective in fast sectors, the same characteristic as Rossi.
“Howe🔯ver, the common denomin💟ator between the two, but also for Academy members, remains the ability to read and interpret data.
“Bezzecchi lingered with me for a long time, paying attention to the graphs, which were also shared byꦯ Ducati.
“The comparison with the other Desmosedicis is possible, and Marco is always methodical and meticulous, as Va✤le was."
But MotoGP has changed since Rossi amassed nine world championships and mainstrea🌠m recognition.
“Enormously,” Flamigni said.
“Today we have an infl🌌uential aerodynamic s♏ection, which affects anti-wheelie strategies.
“The traction control intervenes differently, the gear ra♊tio re𓆉quires particular settings.
“A lot has changed, but I noticed one pleasant ওth✱ing…
“The rider still makes the difference.
“Bezzecchi's two victories in Argentina and France be♋ar witness to this.
“🔜He put seven Ducatis be🤪hind him, so MotoGP bikes of the same brand.
“♋In the end one always wins, Marco did it. I won with him. And I didn't think so."
Bezzecc🔯hi won the VR46 MotoGP team’s▨ first premier class race last year, and emerged as a genuine title contender until the final few rounds.
Through him and the other VR46 Academy graduates (two-time champion Francesco Bagnaia, Luca Mar๊ini and Franco Morbidelli), Rossi remains integral.
Throughout his heyday, Flamigni was by his s♚ide. And now as a team owner, Flamigni r𝓀emains a key confidant.
But along the way, Flamigni felt heꦍ had 🅷no choice but to change jobs.
“I felt like Rossi's [data engineer], with whom he shared triumphs and crashes, 🐟successes and hard moments, different eras in Yamaha and years in Ducati.
“It seems like yesterday that we started. I hav﷽e workedꦗ with Rossi for almost twenty years.
“I wanted to challꦆenge mꦏyself differently. Here I am.”

He detailed his role as Bezzecchi’s crew chief: “My work is morඣe complex.
“On Wednesday and Thursday the bikes are adapted to the track in question, a tyre management programme is created, considering the durations for the Sprint and the GP, the rider's comments are listened to, subsequently modifying what is requᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚired.
ꦬ“The motorbike must be tailor-made for him. 𒆙You need experience, improvisation and, at the same time, study.
“Furthermore, it is a good idea to chec📖k the weather.
“I follow various aspects of the GP22, in the entirety of ꦿt🎃he vehicle, at 360 degrees: tyres, brakes, set-up, chassis, suspensions and everything. I also check the electronics while I'm at it.
“Having spent decades with Vale, I n🧔ever imagined having fun again.
“Working alongside Bezzecchi is a constant surprise, it's a story that started recently, but it's already promi🐻sing and🍬 fantastic.
“Thanks to Ma💧rco I returned to winn🔴ing, realising a dream I had hidden somewhere.
“I 🍃can tell you about a splendid boy, with a beautifꦜul family behind him.
“On one weekend of the year, he started thanking everyone: his father, his mother, the technicians, the t💯eam manager, the chef, everyone.”
He thanked Flamigni too.
“Yes, in fact he spent hours with m🍃e in the garage,” he said.
“The atmosphere💞 was magical, and it made me understand how♐ full of satisfaction the challenge of moving [jobs] could be.”
Bezzಞecchi’s decision to stay within Rossi’s team this season, and reject a move to Pramac, means he will work alongside Flamigni again.

James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to✱ F1.