HAVING A GO // ROSSI DRIVES AN F2008

What is going on?! Just yesterday we reported on WRC champ Sebastien Loeb doing a bit of testing behind the wheel of a RedBull F1 ride, and now Valentino Rossi?! According to GridCrasher.com, the reigning MotoGP champion found himself behind the wheel of Ferrari’s F2008 at the Mugello Circuit, and this is what the GP jockey had to say about it: “The times we did in Fiorano, here and in Valencia have been analysed and with some good hard work and lots of effort I could become a good Formula One driver,” said Rossi. “It’s difficult to say whether or not I would win, but the potential is definitely there.”

Additionally, word has it Rossi completed over 30 laps before inclement weather forced him to retire, and that he was a mere two seconds off the pace of Ferrari drivers Massa and Raikkonen. Now, two seconds in terms of F1 is nothing to brag about, but it definitely suggests an inherent go-fast ability, one that might afford Rossi a few wins in say, Formula BMW or Formula 3? // 11.26.2008