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Valentino Rossi and Ferrari in F1: What might have been?
Mercedes boss Toto Wolff recently offered Valentino Rossi a Formula 1 test, but how close did the Italian MotoGP megastar really come to switching to a four-wheeled career 10 years ago? Charles Bradley wonders… It was over a decade ago when MotoGP legend Rossi first took part in a bona fide F1 group test for Ferrari, lapping 0.7s off the pace of Michael Schumacher and putting him squarely in the frame for a switch of codes that would have shaken the world – had it happened. For the first time, Rossi – with little four-wheeled racing experience – was out on track with M Schumacher, Fernando Alonso, Jenson Button, Felipe Massa, Nico Rosberg, Juan Pablo Montoya, Ralf Schumacher, Robert...
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