Everyone knows how rumors start and how they get bigger and bigger until they are uncontainable and then they reach the ears of curious journalists enough to send them into a tizzy and then publish the rumor, especially when the rumors involves a high profile Italian sports personality like Valentino Rossi.
Rossi is just one of the several riders whose contracts are expiring this season and if the Italian doesn’t up his game, he’ll be leaving Ducati with his reputation as ‘The Doctor’ in tatters and as some very disgruntled fans are saying like a snowball in hell finding another factory team to ride for.
However Italian newspaper Il Resto del Carlino – Pesaro edition is following a recent rumor from the GP paddock in Qatar, and get this, there are negotiations – obviously still in the embryonic stage – that in 2013 there could be a new satellite team with Valentino Rossi returning to his beloved Yamaha M1 with the world’s No.
1 soft drink maker Coca Cola as the main sponsor backing this mythical team.
We agree that the story sounds like something from the Twilight Zone, but we can imagine Dorna’s Carmelo Ezpeleta having an orgasm at the thought of Rossi staying another year in MotoGP and that Coca Cola could eventually sponsor one of the events and the eventual commercials …