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Marco Lucchinelli Photo: Don Morley [From Motocourse 1982-83]

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“The other thing that takes a lot of time is the girls! There are always a lot of girls at every Grand Prix, but a lot of really young girl fans come to see me in Italy, 12 and 13-year-olds. I prefer older girls who are real fans of me as a racer – not teeny-boppers.” (Italian GP 1998)

“I have to say I don’t like leaving home to go racing at this time of year - there are too many beautiful girls around where I live, and they don’t wear so many clothes during the summer.” (British GP 1998)

Even back in his 125 and 250 days his infectious enthusiasm was breaking the sport to whole new audiences, amongst them the Valenteenyboppers, gangs of Italian schoolgirls drawn to racetracks by their heartthrob's pretty blue eyes. Valentino doesn't appreciate that kind of attention because he's a bit of a biking purist. “They're not fans of Rossi the motorcycle racer, but just because I've got blue eyes, I don't like,” he says with faint exasperation after years spent fleeing these seething ranks of moist, pubescent Latin lovelies. “It's good to have one or two nice girls chasing you, but not one thousand.” That's what he says, but you wonder if he really means it once you've been inside his motorhome, watching him and constant companion Uccio Salucci giggling madly as they field lewd text messages from female admirers.

Mat Oxley: It was Imola ‘97 that I realised he’d become a superstar – his fans covered half the hillside on the pit straight, so he was already more popular than Doohan and Biaggi. You’d go to his motorhome and there’d be 20 teenage girls hanging around outside, even though he had a girlfriend at the time. Uccio: We really enjoyed having so many girls around! Maybe some top riders or superstars worry “Is this girl coming to see me because I’m famous or does she really like me?”, but Valentino didn’t think like that, he always said “I don’t care why she’s coming, I’m just happy that she is coming!”

Of course, with the late nights came the girls, and Valentino was getting through them at a rate. One of the few big-name riders to count himself ‘single’, he had finally copped onto the fact that he’s young, rich and the ladies love him, so, why on earth would he want to go steady just yet? As Italian MotoGP mover and shaker Carlo Pernat says: “I've never seen so many girls around a rider, maybe Barry Sheene or Marco Lucchinelli (500 world champ in 1981) but never so many. Valentino doesn't like to stay with a girl more than two or three months. He still lives like a kid now, with the same friends, the same way of life. After the racing is finished it's impossible to find him, no one knows where he goes, maybe he's in London, maybe he's in a disco with some friends he's known since he was a boy. He never changes, he doesn't want to be famous, he doesn't want a movie star girlfriend, he doesn't want to be in the papers with famous people.”

Valentino excuses himself by insisting that long-term girlfriends don't fit the GP lifestyle. “I brought a girlfriend to the Barcelona race but now is finished,” he said midway through 2003. When you make this life is very difficult to have a girl. If you bring her to a GP maybe she's bored, so I stay alone at races, is better. Then when you stay one week at a racetrack, you come back home and you have some power to use, you need to have fun, go out with friends, go to the disco, but your girlfriend has just stayed one week doing all this kind of stuff, so when I come home, she say ‘can we see a movie?'. So is difficult.”

Q: Did the life of a boyfriend change him? Graziano: I don't think so, he keeps going dancing, but with his girlfriend.

Who would the MotoGP rider Valentino Rossi invite at dinner from the sports world? The Italian answered this question in an interview with Blick. “That's where I would call Roger Federer. We already had this pleasure in Portugal in 2006, but it was a long time ago. I do not know Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi on a personal basis, even if I would be interested at those two. Outside the world of sports, I would prefer a beautiful woman! When I was younger, I was loving the actress Angelina Jolie so much. But now she is old, like me (laughter). So I'd pick Scarlett Johansson. Having a nice woman next to me would be better than Roger!”, he said laughing.

“The first ride with the M1 was like going on a date with a new girlfriend: it's more exciting than having ice cream with a new girlfriend than having sex with one you've been dating for years!”

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'From the first time I worked with Valentino I realised he is so, so curious. He wants to know everything: why is this exhaust pipe like this, why is that exhaust like that, why does the rider do that, why do other riders do something different? In fact, when he was 14 or 15 another of Graziano's friends, Marco Lucchinelli [1981 500cc world champion], used to call him Virus. This was his nickname for a few years, because he wanted to know everything and he was always attacking people with questions. This is Valentino - curious and intelligent. Racing with him was a beautiful period in my life because he was very easy to work with. For me the impressive thing about him was his riding, but also that he was very friendly. "After Brno 1996 I immediately thought that he was a phenomenon, not only a phenomenon with his riding but a phenomenon in communication. He has all the characteristics: he is a fantastic rider, he is friendly, he is spontaneous, he's not fake, and he smiles with everybody, so all the grandmothers, the grandfathers, the wives and the kids fall in love with him - the people who know nothing about engines and racing. He had a big effect on Aprilia sales. We sold a lot of bikes and scooters and we made a lot of Valentino replica machines. "During that period Valentino sometimes fucked with me. In 1997 he was a big fan of Jacques Villeneuve [winner of that year's Formula 1 title with Williams-Renault]. He kept telling me, 'Carlo, I want to meet Villeneuve!' He was such a fan that he hated Ferrari at that time, because of the Villeneuve versus Michael Schumacher thing. So I called Carlos Ghosn at Renault, who I knew because at that time Aprilia was doing good business selling scooters in Renault dealerships. It was arranged that Valentino would meet Jacques at a big motorsport awards event in Bologna. "Before the event I went out for dinner with Valentino and Uccio Salucci. At the end of the meal Valentino went to the toilet. And he never came back! In the auditorium there was Jacques with his car and there was Valentino's bike, but no Valentino. All the world's TV and media were there, so Beggio was very angry and wanted to kill me. I still don't know where he went that night. He won't tell me!"

Carlo Pernat in Oxley's 'Valentino Rossi: All His Races'

valentino with villeneuve in 1998

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Aprono al pubblico le serate organizzate da Prometeon al Teatro “Giorgio Gaber” di Milano: prossimo appuntamento il 16 marzo con Agostini, Lucchinelli e Capirossi

Giunto alla terza serata, il ciclo di incontri in teatro organizzato da Prometeon Tyre Group per ascoltare dalla voce dei testimoni il racconto di imprese sportive straordinarie che possono essere fonte di ispirazione nella vita e nel lavoro, diventa un evento aperto al pubblico. In occasione della prima puntata, il 7 novembre scorso, erano stati Alessandro Altobelli, Giuseppe Bergomi e Antonio…

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Marco Lucchinelli: “O Rossi όσο συνεχίζει να αγωνίζεται κάνει τα γαϊδουράκια να μοιάζουν με πρωταθλητές"

Marco Lucchinelli: “O Rossi όσο συνεχίζει να αγωνίζεται κάνει τα γαϊδουράκια να μοιάζουν με πρωταθλητές”

Ο πρώην πρωταθλητής, Marco Lucchinelli,  που είχε μιλήσει και παλιότερα για τον Rossi, επανέρχεται με νέες δηλώσεις σχετικά με το αν πρέπει ο Valentino Rossi  να αποσυρθεί στο τέλος της σεζόν. (more…)

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Carlo Perugini, campione di motociclismo di origini montecosaresi degli anni settanta

Carlo Perugini, campione di motociclismo di origini montecosaresi degli anni settanta

I mitici anni Settanta partoriranno, oltre a chitarre e capelloni, due grandissimi campioni: Franco Uncini (civitanovese di nascita, recanatese di adozione) e Carlo Perugini (nato a Recanati, ma di origini montecosaresi). Due ragazzi, amici e coetanei, con la stessa passione per le due ruote. Le gomme dei loro motorini hanno lasciato segni profondi e incancellabili nella memoria dei giovani di…

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Marco Lucchinelli

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Marco Lucchinelli, http://www.daidegasforum.com/forum/foto-video/511756-marco-lucky-lucchinelli-foto-gallery-raccolta-thread.html

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Jody Scheckter, Formula One World Champion of 1979, riding Marco Lucchinelli's 500 Suzuki

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🇬🇧 1989 Sbk season, Falappa got 3 wins on Bimota. He meet Marco Lucchinelli, Ducati manager at that time, along the highway he knock in his car window at 180km/h and it runs wheeling his bike standing on the foot pegs. Falappa become official Ducati rider for season 1990. 🇮🇹 Stagione superbike 1989 in Bimota conclusa con 3 vittorie. Falappa incrocia Marco Lucchinelli, manager Ducati ai tempi, sull'autostrada, lo affianca, gli bussa sul finestrino ai 180km/h e scappa impennando la moto in piedi sulle pedane. Falappa diventa pilota ufficiale Ducati per la stagione 1990. #Falappa#GiancarloFalappa#Ducati#MarcoLucchinelli#lucchinelli#castiglioni#superbike#wheelie#888#ducati888 https://www.instagram.com/p/B11Z0INirEf/?igshid=16yhw9agqo5lq

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Team Suzuki Ecstar: On This Day: July 6th 1980, Randy Mamola won with his RGB500 at Zolder circuit in Belgium and made history by taking Suzuki’s 100th victory 🏆🤩. He was joined on the podium by fellow Suzuki rider Marco Lucchinelli! 🔷

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Morto il figlio di Marco Lucchinelli ---> http://www.diggita.it/v.php?id=1601056

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Lady Clarissa.

Photo: Alice Lucchinelli. Model: Lori Migliorucci. Stanley Picker Gallery, London.

Lori wears vintage wedding dress by Caroline Parkesvintage, blouse stylist’s own, original vintage feather headpiece.

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Marco Lucchinelli Vs Kenny Roberts

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Vmoto Soco MotoGP World Championship circuit

Vmoto Soco, the global urban electric mobility giant manufacturer, has officially presented the first electric urban mobility dedicated store within a MotoGP World Championship circuit. On Monday 12 July, the Super Soco Store has been [...] The post Vmoto Soco MotoGP World Championship circuit appeared first on Total Motorcycle. http://dlvr.it/S41xrl