Andrea Locatelli had a lot of fun in Jerez during the Yamaha Racing Experience. Jonathan Rea’s teammate in SBK climbed on, among others, the Yamaha YZR 500 that was Max Biaggi’s in 2001, one of the most beautiful but also one of the meanest bikes in the history of the world championship. Sharp acceleration, sharp chassis, no traction control and power in spades make up an explosive formula ready to launch you straight into the stratosphere at the slightest mistake.
Yet the ‘Loca’ proved to have a great mastery even of means of this type, because in the video posted by Niccolò Canepa not only turns in Jerez attacking every single corner, but also gives a beautiful plastic pose. In fact, Andrea waited for the long left before the final stretch of Jerez to indulge in a nice elbow-to-ground rub, all while riding this sort of two-wheeled time bomb. Balls of steel, that’s all there is to it!
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