(GMM) Former formula one driver Hans-Joachim Stuck has urged Valentino Rossi to stay on two wheels.
With news that the MotoGP sensation has tested Ferrari's F1 machine for the third time, 54-year-old Stuck, from Germany, said he hopes Italy's Rossi is 'intelligent enough' to turn down the sheen of grand prix racing.
''Formula One feeds on such rumours,'' 75-grand prix veteran Stuck told 'Sport1.at', 'but I hope Rossi is intelligent enough to say 'no'.''
A Ferrari spokesman, meanwhile, insisted that Rossi - which, just incidentally, means 'red' in Italian - will not test the scarlet machine again until 2006.
Hans-Joachim Stuck does admit, however, that Rossi would at least add a 'hero' to the F1 paddock. He called Kimi Raikkonen and Fernando Alonso 'excellent drivers but no heroes.
''Mansell and Prost were heroes,'' he said. ''Today's drivers should open up to the public.''
Written: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 10:03:47
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