Valentino Rossi showed up on the Jerez circuit for the 2024 MotoGP Spanish GP weekend with a pass that aroused great curiosity: there is a photo in which he is unrecognizable.
The MotoGP Spanish GP 2024 has given great satisfaction to the pilots who grew up in the Academy of Valentino Rossi with Pecco Bagnaia who, after a spectacular duel with Marc Marquez, achieved success in Sunday’s race and the standard bearer of the VR46 team Marco Bezzecchi who returned to the podium in the Jerez race, finishing in third position.
Results which the Doctor witnessed up close given that was present in the MotoGP paddock on the Spanish circuit for the entire race weekend. And his presence, beyond the episode that occurred during the Bagnaia celebrations which went viral, did not go unnoticed at all with the microphones and cameras of the media as well as the lenses of the photographers who followed him step by step.
Is exactly some photos taken to the nine-time motorcycling world champion in Jerez they brought to light a curiosity that had never been noticed until now. In fact, in several shots VAlentino Rossi was immortalized wearing the lanyard to which his access pass to the MotoGP paddock hangs and this he highlighted the passport photo applied to it.
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This is a photo that is used to allow the circuit security officers to recognize the person showing the pass, but in reality, in the case of Valentino Rossi, we are faced with a photograph in which he appears unrecognizable to this day.
In fact, the photo on the current MotoGP pass displayed by Valentino Rossi on the 2024 Jerez GP weekend it dates back 24 years (i.e. in the first year in which he raced in the premier class of the MotoGP which was then the 500cc) as can easily be seen from the fact that he is portrayed with a very young face and short bleached haira very different look compared to the one the ‘Doctor’ currently shows off.
A photo that inevitably takes everyone back to the period in which he was still about to write the first pages of that extraordinary career that will allow him to enter the legend of motorcycling before starting his other career as a car driver which only a week earlier saw him collect what is his most important result to date, namely second place in the GT class of the WEC at the 6 Hours of Imola.
