Valentino Rossi retired from MotoGP at the end of the 2021 season, but he has now looked back at the scary incident he was involved in.

Throughout his 26-year career, Valentino Rossi was involved in numerous collisions and crashes. However, there are still some to this day that impact him.

The most painful crash that Rossi experienced was at his home Grand Prix at Mugello in 2010. During a practice session, Rossi broke his right leg and missed a MotoGP race for the first time in his career.

"When I broke my leg at Mugello in 2010, I've never felt pain like that. The bone sticking out of the skin, the sensation that a part of your body is detached from the rest," Rossi told Corriere della Sera.

But the scariest incident that Rossi was part of was in Austria during the 2020 MotoGP season.

Rossi and Maverick Vinales were both involved in a near-miss when Johann Zarco and Franco Morbidelli's MotoGP machines narrowly missed the factory Yamaha duo.

It was this crash that accelerated Rossi's decision to draw an end to his time racing motorbikes.

"Morbidelli's motorbike flies past my helmet like a huge crazy bullet," Rossi said.

"It was the most dangerous moment of my career. An accident that accelerated the decision to stop riding motorcycles because it was out of my control.

"In the morning I wake up, I realise that I am all in one piece, safe and sound, and I am happy. The credit goes to luck, but also to the attention you put into preserving your body, to thinking.

"I remember a lot of precise moments, a prepared and successful overtaking, the intention of a move without knowing if you'll get out of it, the moment that triggers an accident."