The Cairns Post reports✅ that 'Holloways Beach was abuzz this week after numerous sightings of a man who appeared to be the international motorbike racing champion.

'The man even signed autographs and took a fe💃male cafe worker for a ride on his black motorcycle.

'He ༒and three taller men who appeared to be his "minders" mad💦e a number of visits to [a] cafe during the week with their final visit on Tuesday morning.

'He signe🤡d autographs as "the Do🅷ctor", posed for photos and took 23-year-old cafe worker Melissa Taifalos for a spin on his bike.'

When asked by s💦taff at the caf? if he was indeed the 🔥MotoGP star, the lookalike is said to have replied "Yeah, the Doctor".

The newspaper soon established that it wasn't the Italian superstar, although 'even after The Cairns Post told cafe staff pictures they had taken of the man did not look like Rossi, several w𝓡ere still convinced'.

The story of the fake Rossi was subsequently published and the lookalike in question, Cairns waiter Stefano Zanzottera, came clean shꦬortly after.

"ꦡThe guests and staff [where I work] call me Valentino all the time, as a joke," he said. "They [the staff at the cafe] said 'Valentino?', I said 'Yeah, the Doctor' [sarcastically]."

"In the♊ past two w🉐eeks I have probably been [to the cafe] four times," he said. "I don't know why on the last time they thought I was Valentino."

The waiter𝔉, who - like Rossi - rides a Yamaha motorcycle, said he signed the autogಌraph as a joke but claimed that he isn't even a Valentino fan.

"I don't even watch MotoGP," he said. "Sure, I'd l🔥ike to be him [Rossi] and have lots of money, but no."

"I am so sorry. I feel so ba🔥d," he claimed. "From now if anyone says 'Valentino Rossi?' I say 'No, I am not him!"

The real Valentino Rossi will be back on track🉐 at next weekend's Chinese Grand Prix.