Lewis Hamilton after his P2 podium finish at the Monaco Grand Prix.

this took me more than half a hour but i might not be perfect, these are just some part i wanted to transalte it's not complete

bezz about the spirit of the academy

the academy is an amazing group at this point, which something atypical because ours is an individual sport so it's weird to have such deep friendships with your rivals, but we've been training together for years so now we have this bond of friendship. but also with everybody there's a lot respect because we all fight for the same thing and we all take risks at the same way so even when we see rivals who are not part of the academy there's a lot of respect, it's nice. also at the 100k there's also less pressure we have fun, we can be a bit stupid, it's very beautiful.

bezz about how he signed with the academy

when i did the italian championship i was with a team called maindra that invested on young riders so i was very lucky cause they called me and i raced for them. luckily that year i was fast and i won it so i was able to race a couple of races in the actual worldchampionship and one of those was mugello. at mugello i was going around on my ciao (small bike? electric bicycle?it's something in between) and i was there to race but i was also there as a vale fan. so obviously when motogp raced i went there cause i was lucky i had a paddock pass for the first time and i could be near the track, it was a dream. there i meat albi and carlo. alberto is our preparer, also vale's preparer and he had heard about me so he told me "so you're bezzecchi?" and they invited me to the ranch. it was 2015 so i was 16 years old, i met uccio we talked and stayed in contact all through the year and at the end of 2015 i signed, it was around christmas so it was a pretty amazing gift.

bezz about how che chose to stay with vr46:

it was a hard period of time, beautiful but hard. it wasn't easy to have different possibilities that intrigued me but at the same time the security of feeling good where you are. so i had a lot to reflect about, mostly alone because i didn't want anybody to influence me in this. in the end i decided to stay mostly because in today's motogp you need to be fast right away cause sadly we don't have a couple of years to adjust anymore, there's a lot of young talents coming up and the team want results right away. so i thought here i feel good and i have a team that was basically created for me, cause uccio, vale and the guys basically formed a team around me knowing me, how i am and what i need. because the team were all people that i had known for a while, from moto2 or motogp. so i decided to stay because even if i didn't have the official bike i knew and hoped I could still be fast and i had a very good 'climate' which is something really important for me. and obviously i couldn't say anything to the journalists so when i decided me and lalla,my social media manager decided to write that letter which i actually wrote it was a real thing but with that small amount of fucking around.

gianluca: but you you realize that that thing you call fucking around is actually that genuineness that people seems to really like in you. you realize that you've brought to motogp something that we hadn't seen in a while, all that small funny twists and jokes that you gifts us after races sometimes. that really brings you and the fan together, did you realize it?

let's say i realized it when they started to tell me because i'm just like that naturally. [...]

it's something that still surprises me because i'm not used to it. people are genuinely happy to see me even if they don't ask me for a picture and tell fills me with joy. i try to do my own thing well, obviously races, while being myself and to not 'distort' myself because it is right for me to just be like i am. if people like that i am happy cause it makes me feel closer to the people that follow me.

bezz about his first meeting with vale

that same year (2015) we met in qatar and that year he won the race there. i was a substitute for stefano manzi that wasn't sixteen yet, he was turning 16 the day of the race but they didn't allow him to race to i raced for him and i met vale. i asked for a picture and obviously being a fan i asked him "can i give you a hug?" and he said laughed and told me yes of course.

how was it being in his team and academy then?

at the beginning it was a weird, a dream but weird. a dream for every fan but also for every rider cause the organization behind is amazing. you're covered in everything, for training, medical checks, management. and as a fan of vale i was just amazing you see him every day you can race with him, talk to him ask him for advice, break his balls.

i feel like he's very generous on this aspect