Valentino Rossi celebrates another victory, this time at the wheel of a four-wheeler, on the Indianapolis circuit, where he won a MotoGP race in 2008, the year in which he won his sixth and penultimate title in the premier class aboard a Yamaha.
Rossi won the Eight Hours of Indianapolis, a test valid for the Intercontinental GT Challenge 2025, competing with a Team Wrt BMW M4 teamed with the South African Kelvin Van der Linde, who became world champion, from the Belgian Charles Weerts.
The victory, Van der Linde’s fourth of the season, was anything but a given, in a race marked by a long interruption with a red flag due to bad weather.
For Rossi it is his first glory in the Igtc championship, on the ‘Brickyard’ which had already seen him triumph 17 years ago, while it is the third consecutive for the Wrt team at the 8 Hours of Indianapolis.
BMW is also celebrating, having won its first IGTC GT3 constructors’ title. «I’m very happy because it was a fantastic race and in the end we were also lucky – commented Rossi -. Winning here is special for me because it already happened in MotoGP, in 2008, so it’s something fantastic. I am very happy to have helped Kelvin win the championship.”