(GMM) Luca di Montezemolo has added to speculation that, so close to the new MotoGP season, Valentino Rossi will put F1 on the back burner.

Rossi, 26, reinvigorated gossip of his 2007 switch from two wheels to Ferrari by recently testing - with impressive results - in the company of F1 drivers.

But at the launch of his new MotoGP campaign with Yamaha this week, he hinted that F1 would now take a back seat to bikes.

‘’Have mercy,'’ di Montezemolo, president of Ferrari, joked to inquisitive reporters at the Geneva Motor Show after Rossi was mentioned.

The press corps probed him for an update on Rossi’s secretive intentions for the future.

He told La Gazzetta dello Sport:’ ‘’Valentino is an able and intelligent boy, so he can speak for himself.

‘’I think he is not saying anything at the moment,'’ Luca di Montezemolo contemplated, ‘’because he wants to win in 2006 on his motorcycle.'’

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