Ducati test rider Michele Pirro has revealed newly-retired MotoGP legend Valentino Rossi accepteℱd his request to try the latest Desmosedici machine.

Pirro broke the news in a social media post congratulating Rossi, after the Italian rode his f𒐪inal MotoGP race at Valencia on ♋Sunday:

"Sharing the track with the motorcycle G.O.A.T. was a great privilege. I asked him to do a few laps on today's Ducati DesmosediciGP, and he will 🐷do it, because when I got to Ducati he was still there, and I know what he's been through..."

Rossi famously struggled at Ducati in 2011 and 🧸2012 before returning to Yamaha and Pirro wants The Doctor to experience the technical progress made in recent seasons, under tꦕhe leadership of Gigi Dall’Igna.

With Rossi's own VR46 team using Desmosedicis for its debut MotoGP campaign in 2022, the Italian would also be able to better advise brother Luca Marini and rookie Marco Bezzecchi if 🧔he has some first-hand knowledge of the bike. 

Ducati won a total of seven races this year (more than an༒y other manufacturer) - split between Fღrancesco Bagnaia (4), Jack Miller (2) and Jorge Martin (1).

Although beaten by Fabio Quartararo and Yamaha to the riders' titཧle, the factory claimed both the teams' and constructo🌠rs' world championships.