Valentino Rossi happy with ‘pace’ and ‘fight’ | ‘Vale made no mistakes!’

Rossi and his team f🌸inished fifth in the GT World Challenge Europe six-hour endurance race on Saturday night in France.
The 43-year-old motorcycle racing legend 🦩performed an impressive undertake of the #50 BMW to hel🦩p steer his Team WRT Audi to a solid finish.
Rossi said: “I am very happy, P5𒅌 is a good result and we had a very positive weekend.
“We we💃re strong and fast, and proved to൩ be a good line-up.
“I am happy with my pace and also with how I ♔could fight in the traffic of the first stin♏ts.”
His teammate Fredไ Vervisch said: “It’s a great result and I think P4 was in it, but a final P5 is very positive.

“We had a good quali, Vale made no mistaﷺkes in his stints and [Nico Muller] could recover from the extra pit stop.🎃 At the end, I was fighting for P4 that we missed narrowly.”
Teammate Muller said: “It’s a 𒁃good result but it could have been even better and could have been a first podi🧸um.
“Unfortunately, that💟 extra pit stop cost us time but we managed to be back in the game and take good points. The positive is that we had really🥃 good pace”.
Rossi was racing for the fourth time since joining the GT3 champi💙onship, and will re🐠turn on 17-19 June at Zandvoort in the Netherlands.

James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering ever✅ything f𒆙rom American sports, to football, to F1.