MotoGP World Champion Valentino Rossi had the opportunity to display his sheer speed on four-wheels in last weekend’s Monza Rally Show in Italy, as he teamed-up with Carlo Cassina to compete on a Subaru Impreza WRC prepared by Prodrive.

The Doctor took second overall in the main event, as he was beaten by just 5.6s by Italian veteran Dindo Capello, but he shone in the final showdown which saw the drivers going head-to-head on a 1,500m gymkhana set in the main straight of the Monza circuit.


[Valentino Rossi has successively beaten Felice Re and Rinaldo Capello to qualify for the finale, which saw him face former WRC Champion Colin McRae. The Yamaha rider eventually took victory by just 1.390s ahead of the Scottish legend, who was driving a Skoda Fabia WRC

 

an all around guy i guess.

 

I'm sorry but I'd pwn him on MotoGP 3 for Xbox and GT4 on PS2.

 

that guy has alot of talent....damn, beating colin mcrae

 

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In McRae's defense...he was driving a Skoda

 

sure would be nice to have such driving skills that multiple manufacturers are literally throwing cars/bikes at you saying "drive this, please!"

 

when your fast, your fast.

plain and simple

 

the skoda's not that low on power :-p, it has a turbo charged 4 cyl motor pushing 300bhp!

Rossi has talant and i do think his car was favored, but for him to keep up is amazing, the fact that he beat colin mcrae is impressive.

A talanted individual, and i'm sure he had a fair amount of prior experience to perform that well. Kudo's the talanted *** that is Rossi

 

I noticed in the bottom pic it there was a speed channel logo. Did/are they gonig to televise this rally?

 

is there anything that guy can't drive/ride?

 

Bicycles!

 

He's popular, he's good, he wins.

 

One of a kind.