Following within the footsteps of Lando Norris, Kimi Antonelli additionally made his approach to the Ducati storage forward of the MotoGP San Marino Grand Prix. {The teenager} could possibly be seen chatting with two-time MotoGP champion Francesco Bagnaia and Italian tennis star Lorenzo Musetti.
With F1 having per week’s break, the 20 drivers saved themselves engaged in numerous actions all through the non-F1 race weekend. Whereas Max Verstappen raced on the Nurburgring throughout this time, different drivers paid visits to numerous different sporting occasions.
Norris was the primary to set the precedent, as he attended the San Marino GP on the Misano circuit. However, owing to Antonelli being in his residence area, in Emilia-Romagna, he attended the bike occasion.
There, the Mercedes driver was on Bagnaia’s facet of the storage together with Musetti, because the trio of Italian stars talked with one another:
In the meantime, Antonelli and Bagnaia have mutual respect, as after the Ducati rider completed on the rostrum in Aragon and celebrated this end result on Instagram with a celebratory publish, the 19-year-old quickly shared a touch upon his publish:
“🔥🔥🔥”
However, Bagnaia retired from the San Marino GP, however Ducati emerged victorious as Marc Marquez gained the 27-lap race for the Italian squad on residence soil.
Kimi Antonelli congratulated Ducati rider Marc Marquez on the victory on the San Marino Grand Prix
With Kimi Antonelli being on the manufacturing unit Ducati workforce’s facet on the San Marino GP, he ventured over to congratulate Marc Marquex on the race victory. The 19-year-old had a small chat with the Spaniard, as the 2 had shared respect for one another:
Whereas Marquez gained the race, this isn’t the primary time that Antonelli has interacted with the MotoGP world. Bike racing legend, Valentino Rossi, and the Mercedes driver had additionally talked with one another earlier within the yr.
The 46-year-old had shared a number of tales with Antonelli and advised him to get pleasure from his time in F1, because the younger Italian revealed (F1 Oversteer):
“That was actually cool. Valentino [Rossi] is such a cool man. We laughed so much. He advised me just a few tales from again when he was racing in MotoGP – some humorous ones, too, however I can’t actually inform them proper now… He advised me to simply preserve going, get pleasure from it and, above all, give attention to myself with out being distracted by others, benefit from the course of and at all times give it my all.”
Antonelli presently sits eighth within the championship standings, having amassed 66 factors over the earlier 16 race weekends.
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Edited by Geetansh Pasricha