Legends Michael Dunlop and Valentino Rossi reunite on the same track
Meeting of motorsport icons in Italy

Michael Dunlop and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Valentino Rossi shared a race track in a meeting of ಞtwo motorsport legends.
Isle of Man TT record-breaker Dunlop is in Tavullia this weekend as an entrant to Rossi’s annual 100km of 𝕴Champions event.
Rid🐠ers from various championships partake in Rossi’s yearly gala but the inclusion of TT star Dunlop - and Davey Tod♛d - adds an extra layer of gloss.
Valentino Rossi & Michael Dunlop at th♑e ranch ♒🤝
— Crash MotoGP (@crash_motogp)
Dunlop and Rossi were on track on Thursday for free practice but it wasn’t the fir🌌st time that they have been wheel to wheel, despite their hugely different caඣreer paths.
Last summer Dunlop and R🌸ossi were brought toget🙈her by Monster Energy for a special track day at Silverstone.
John McGuinness completed his personal best lap of Silverstone on the same day, and said: "This little fella from Italy came s🧜teaming past me on the back-straigh🐷t…
"Somebody called Valentino Rossi, I thought 'he is pre💯tty fast, I'll ෴get on the back of him'.
"He dragged me round to do the fastest෴ lap I've ever done at Silverstone.
"I bit the screen, trying to hang 𒈔on as much as I coul🐲d!
"I was more intere𒁃s🌠ted in watching him. He's the best in the world."
Rossi famously visited the Isle༒ of Man TT 💖in 2009, and did a few practice laps.
He was quoted af🅠terwards: "The lap is great and impr♓essed me a lot because I know that it's dangerous and also fast.
"I don't expect a road like this to be a track and it is unbelievable tℱo be going flat out around it onꦜ a Superbike. You need to have two great balls!
"For the first lap it's impossible to push for the first lap. I want to come and make five or six laps t♊o understand it better."
There is far less pressure this weekend in T🍃avullia, however, as Isle of Man TT stars repay the visit.
Dunlop and To🍬dd will race against Rossi and MotoGP riders including Pecco Bagnaia, Luca Marini and Marco Bezzecchi on Friday and Saturday.

James was a🍸 sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.