«After a careful visit we can inform you that Franci is pregnant! we are expecting a baby girl ». Valentino Rossi gives the happy announcement on social media, accompanied by three photos and in one of these, he appears wearing a doctor’s coat while listening to his partner’s belly with a stethoscope. In the other two, the couple smiles embraced looking towards the camera.
Only on 5 August, before the Styrian GP, the nine-time motorcycling world champion announced his decision to leave racing at the end of the season, at the age of 42, after thirty mostly lived in the saddle. For the future he had hypothesized a transition to four wheels and in any case a clear change from the present, but without mentioning his private life, even if many have hypothesized as probable for 2022 the wedding with his girlfriend Francesca Sofia Novello, model and presenter of 27 years old, and also the arrival of a son.