MotoGP, VIDEO - Rossi welcomes Stoner: "Gentlemen, here's Casey at the Ranch!"

Valentino Rossi and Casey Stoner sparked a beautiful rivalry on the track between 2006 and 2012, the year of the Australian's retirement. Two characters that could not be more different, but in common so much talent, so much. Precisely on the subject of talent, everyone will remember the legendary phrase uttered by Casey in the pits at Jerez in 2011, when the Australian fell after being run over by Valentino, who that very season had taken over Stoner's baton on the Ducati.

Casey waited for Rossi in the box and told him, "Your ambition has exceeded your talent."

That seemed like the tombstone on a relationship between the two that never took off as they raced on the track against each other. But time is a gentleman and perspectives change. Both Valentino and Casey over the years have given the other numerous certificates of mutual esteem, phrases that have undoubtedly mended fences and brought the two closer and closer together. Valentino therefore took advantage of Casey's presence at EICMA to invite him to the Ranch and do a few laps together. Here's how it went:

 

 

 

 

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