‘It's like the best ever club meeting’

Pop to Rossi's ranch, y'say? Bike‘s Pete Boast spanners for Tim and Tom Neave in the ‘100km of Champions’ at the VR46 Motor Ranch…

It's all thanks to John McGuinness. He, Tim Neave, his brother Tom and I were talking last year, and the boys said they've been wanting to go to Valentino Rossi's Motor Ranch for ages. John dropped in that he knew Rossi, so messaged him… then just before Christmas John forwarded a voicemail of Valentino asking if Tim and Tom could go to his 100km race. I've been helping Tim for years, and he asked if I'd go along to mechanic. No way was I missing that one… Actually, I've ridden at the VR46 Motor Ranch myself… I raced a flat track meet at the EICMA show in Milan, in 2015 maybe. I was mates with Marco Belli, who designed the track for Vale and his dad, Graziano, and Marco asked me…

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