V🐷alentino Rossi plans to appear at mo💖re MotoGP races in the New Year.

The MotoGP legend retired three years a꧟go and has since started racing on🍸 four wheels.

But, he plans to realign his prioritꦕies this coming season.

"I regretted not being so present at the races [in 2024] and I had less 𝓡time to work with the riders of our Academy," Rossi told .

"In 2025 I want to be🔯 more present in MotoGP races, so I will also do fewer car races for that reason.”

Liberty Media’s takeover of MotoGP is cited in the report as being ꦦ🍸a reason for Rossi’s intention to turn up more frequently.

Rossi retai🍌ns an obvious link to the key players in Moto🥂GP today.

Pecco Bagnaia is a VR46 Academy graduate who, two years ago, became the first of Rossi’s proteges to win the MotoGP tಞitle.

Bagnaia will be joined in the f🌌actor💝y Ducati box this year by Marc Marquez, Rossi’s old rival.

Rossi caused a stir last year by reopening the argument with Marquez about what hap❀pened in 🤪2015, when the Italian blamed the Spaniard for costing him the title after a series of spats.

Rossi’s protege and Rossi’s enemy teaming up, and riding the best bikes on the grid, will be fascinating🌳 viewing this year.

The Doctor’s VR46 tea༺m is also undergoing aꩲ major change.

After Pramac’s exit as a Ducati satellite team, VR46 will now receive more prefe🔯rential treatment.

They will have access to one factory-spec b♉ike, so Fabio di Giannantonio will have the same machinery as Bagnaia and Marquez.

Franco Morbidelli, another VR46 Academy graduate, will join the team as Di🧔 Giannantonio’s tea﷽mmate.

Marco Bezzecchi will leave VR46⭕ to join Aprilia, becoming a factor♉y rider for the first time.

Rossi’s brother Luca Marini enജters a second season as a factory Honda rider.