Get ready to crap in your pants.
Valentino Rossi, the Italian MotoGP driver (who dominates his sport like Jordan, Gretzky, Armstrong, and Schumacher combined) seems to be in the early phases of an F1 career.
Ferarri has been putting him thru the paces on its test track in order to get him an F1 Superlicense, which he would need to race in GPs. Word has it that Rossi is about 1.5 seconds off the pace. That's a considerable distance from being race-ready, but given that he's a motorcycle racer, it's also pretty effin amazing.
The theory is that he would be an official test driver next year when his MotoGP schedule allowed it, and would eventually replace MS as a full Ferarri driver.
It's an interesting concept. You have any number of theoretically more qualified drivers not only in GP2, Indy Car/Champ Car, but within F1 itself. Perhaps Ferarri's thinking is that anyone as dominant as Rossi has the secret ingredient needed to win--no matter what the genre.
So far, there's no official word out on all this, but as one of the F1 podcast guys pointed out, it's so expensive to even test F1 cars that Ferarri must have some expectation of being rewarded for its investment in Rossi.
The plot keeps getting thicker. For now, the pics of Rossi hanging around the Ferarri track are enough to make me crap in my pants with fear and awe.
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