The seven-time MotoGP champion has outlined a plan to proceed racing a WRT BMW M4 GT3 within the two sequence in what might be solely his fourth 12 months racing full-time in automobiles after retiring from two wheels on the finish of 2021.
“I like racing the GT3 automobile and for me, these two championships are the highest two on the planet,” stated Rossi, who added a WEC marketing campaign within the new LMGT3 class to his continued participation within the Endurance Cup leg of the GTWCE in 2024.
“Once you do these two, you might be okay. I feel eight [races in WEC] and 5 [in GTWCE] is a extremely good quantity.”
Rossi, who’s a part of BMW’s line-up of manufacturing unit drivers, instructed that he’s unlikely to reprise his appearances within the Dash Cup section of the 2024 GTWCE at Manufacturers Hatch and Misano subsequent 12 months.
This time period, Rossi is scheduled to contest 16 occasions with BMW and WRT, which mixed with a handful of MotoGP rounds working together with his VR46 squad means a schedule much like when he was nonetheless racing bikes.
“I attempt to do much less races, no more,” he stated.
The Bathurst 12 Hours in February was a part of Rossi’s programme in 2024, however he hinted that it’s unlikely he’ll contest the Intercontinental GT Problem occasion subsequent 12 months regardless of a podium end within the Australian traditional remaining considered one of his targets.
#46 Crew WRT, BMW M4 GT3: Valentino Rossi, Augusto Farfus, Maxime Martin
Photograph by: BMW Motorsport
A conflict with the celebrations he’s planning for his forty sixth birthday in mid-February subsequent 12 months is more likely to preclude his participation.
It is going to be a big celebration, he identified, as a result of his race quantity all through his MotoGP profession was #46.
Rossi additionally revealed that he want to compete on 4 wheels at Silverstone, a circuit at which he was a winner in MotoGP in 2015.
“One time I want to race at Silverstone; I like Silverstone, so perhaps British GT,” he stated.
“I feel Silverstone could be good in a automobile. And likewise Oulton Park [another British GT venue].”