Valentino Rossi, MotoGp celebrates him: “Hero and icon”

“Goodbye Valentino! Hero, icon and inspiration for many in Italy and around the world! Last home dance completed”. This is the tweet that MotoGp dedicates to Valentino Rossi, who took part in the last Italian race in the MotoGP World Championship today in Misano in the Emilia Romagna GP. It was a catwalk under a yellow wave of the ‘Doctor’ fans. The nine-time world champion, acclaimed by the crowd, threw his helmet towards the public and then allowed himself to be embraced by mechanics and friends. Valentino Rossi “made millions of Italians dream and made Made in Italy travel at very high speed on two wheels, for this we are very grateful for what he has done for Italy” said Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio, who he presented the champion with a lifetime achievement award, an award that “as a foreign ministry and as a foreign trade agency we give to Rossi” as recognition “for having been and being an ambassador of Made in Italy in the world”. The head of the Farnesina underlined: “Wherever I go in the world, Valentino Rossi is always on the list of things for which people say they love Italy”. “We say thank you to him, thanks to a character who was not only a protagonist in the world of sport, but who represented Italy all over the world”.