Uccio Salucci is at MotoG-Podcast: ‘I looked Vale in the eye and I realized he was retiring’

Twenty-six years of the World Cup spent together, but this too is a relative time in the end, given that Valentino Rossi and Alessio Salucci have always been friends, ever since the two met in kindergarten. And since then, where there was one, there was also the other. “Uccio”, as everyone knows him, is the guest of this episode of MotoG-Podcast, the talk on the bike conducted by Paolo Ianieri and Zoran Filicic who obviously this week could not but deal mainly with the announcement made a week ago by Valentino which will retire at the end of the season.

“He told me a week before, but it was enough for me to look him in the eye to understand what he had decided – says Salucci -. On the boat I had brought him the contract for 2022 with Ducati in his team, it would have been nice to be the companion of his brother Luca, but when he told me I only respected his decision ”. During the episode, Uccio talks about the newly formed team (“In VR46 both David Muñoz and Matteo Flamigni, now chief technician and telemetry of Vale will come”), not yet dissolving the reserve on who will be Marini’s partner: “Bezzecchi already has our own offer, these days we are waiting for that of the Yamaha Petronas, but in the end the choice will be yours alone ”. Obviously, a chapter could not be missing on these 26 years that Rossi and Salucci have spent together. “A beautiful thing that I remember is when Valentino won the first race with the Yamaha in Welkom, on the drive to the airport we were sitting in the back, and for three hours we didn’t stop laughing”.