Valentino Rossi: My secret Ferrari Formula 1 trial race and offer | Video. Valentino Rossi on a secretive, pivotal decision in 2006.

In an interview for American journalist and entrepreneur Graham Bensinger, nine-time Grand Prix motorcycle racing champ Valentino Rossi talks of a secretive, pivotal decision in 2006 when he earned an opportunity with Scuderia Ferrari’s Formula 1 team, but ultimately decided his heart was in MotoGP. Valentino Rossi remembers sleeping at the racetrack before his trial race and pressure from his mother and inner circle to make the jump to Formula 1:

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