When

Valentino Rossi

recounts how he met his current partner, the model

Francesca Sofía Novello

, the story sounds pleasant: they started chatting when she was working as a stewardess in the MotoGP paddock and, practically neighbors, many years later they struck up a relationship.

For Rossi, the narrative has no obscurities.

But for her it does.

In an interview with Vanity Fair magazine, Sofía Novello admitted this week how the environment was in which she discovered her harmony with Rossi and her vision does not seem so innocent.

"The paddock is a masculine environment. You have to wake up. You can not be just a smiling face. You have to learn to be respected. If you only show yourself pretty and stupid you are finished," she explained to the magazine about her years among the trucks of the equipment.

There, where the hostesses promote various commercial brands among fans, respect is conspicuous by its absence: "It's part of the game, it happens. At 19 it's not easy to work with people who look at your butt when you pass by and touch it when you walk by. you take a picture with them. "

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In her talk with Vanity Fair, Francesca Sofía Novello, who has lived with Rossi for four years, also appreciated how her courtship influenced her professional career and how she prevented one thing from devouring the other: On the other hand, it is almost inevitable. But I am glad that I continued working, as much as I can, without using his name. It is true that without Valentino I would not have reached the popularity that I have today, but in my career I would have done the same things. longer, but I would have done them. "

In World Championship races it is common to see the model in Rossi's motorhome, who is now experiencing one of the worst moments of his career.

At 41 years old, and after having joined the Yamaha satellite team, Petronas, the Italian has not won for four seasons and his results this year are frankly disappointing.

In the first race in Qatar he could only finish twelfth and in the second, last Sunday, he did not even score.

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