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Rossi admits he turned down Ferrari in 2006
Jan.7 Valentino Rossi says he came tantalisingly close to switching to Formula 1 in 2006. Last month, the MotoGP legend swapped his bike for Lewis Hamilton's Mercedes in a highly publicised event at Valencia. Rossi, 40, told La Gazzetta dello Sport that he came close to being just a second off Hamilton's pace. And Luigi Mazzola, the former head of Ferrari's test team, said that when Rossi did several serious tests for Ferrari years ago, Michael Schumacher was impressed. "In the first test, he spun a dozen times, but over time he did some really amazing laptimes," he said. "I remember looking at the data in the box with Michael and he had an astonished expression on his...
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