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Ferrari ‘eyed Rossi move from MotoGP via Sauber'
Ferrari’s former president, Luca di Montezemolo, has revealed a plan was once hatched to give Valentino Rossi an F1 race seat with Sauber. And if the MotoGP legend had shone on four wheels, the ultimate aim would have been to put him in the Ferrari! Rossi’s father, Graziano, himself a three-time 500cc World Championship race winner in 1979, has previously stated that his son had been “very close” to a Formula 1 drive. The nine-time MotoGP champion has sampled F1 cars several times and there was even a suggestion he would replace Felipe Massa at Ferrari following the Brazilian’s crash in qualifying for the 2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, which led to him missing the rest of the year....
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