Let’s face it it’s off season and Italian sports journalists and fans are bored, so when they get Ferrari’s Stefano Domenicali in a Q&A interview at the Bologna Motor Show, one of the questions naturally has to be that old chestnut of Valentino Rossi in Ferrari.
Apparently many have a very short memory span or refuse to relate to the fact that Rossi has already declared more than once, that by the time he stops motorcycle racing, he’ll be too old to turn to F1, but that doesn’t stop anyone asking the same old question.
“The door is always open for Rossi,” said Domenicali.
“Beyond the personal relationship between Valentino and Ferrari that was born many years ago and is still continuing, but first he has the challenge of bringing the title to Ducati [it looks like someone forgot a certain Casey Stoner] I think he’s focused on that on the moment and we’re rooting for him and Ducati and then we’ll see what the future will bring.
”With the 2011 Vrooom Ferrari-Ducati event scheduled for it’s usual January date and Valentino Rossi expected to attend (he won’t be able to ski or snowboard), we can expect even more of this usual crap.