Last night the 35th edition of Motosprint’s annual Caschi d’Oro (Golden Helmet) awards took place and the highest honours went to this year’s WSBK champion Max Biaggi, who took home a Golden Helmet and the coveted Top Rider trophy.

“It’s nice to win the Golden Helmet,” said Biaggi. “But the Top Rider award has a very specific meaning, which fills me with pride It’s nice to win it again. It’s been a long time, the last time was in 1998.”

For the first time in year’s Valentino Rossi, who is a regular at the awards ceremony wasn’t present, as he’s still recovering from his shoulder surgery, but the other Italian champion called in to update fans on how his recovery is going.

“I’m quite well even if the shoulder is pretty painful, but everything is normal. It takes some time before tendons heal. It ’s a tough winter, I normally do some rally races, ride, train, go to the Cava … now the closest thing to racing I do is playing Gran Turismo on my Playstation, I’m suffering a bit ….” Rossi also jokingly added, “I’ll try to win something next year and come to the 2011 awards.”

Other Golden Helmets went to Aprilia for the manufacturers title in WSBK, Tony Cairoli, for his MX1 championship title, Toni Elias for his Moto2 title, and Emilio Alzamora picked up the award for Marc Marquez, who wasn’t present. Jorge Lorenzo also took home a Casco d’Oro, but the 2010 World champion was also absent, but the spectators saw a video of the MotoGP World Champion accepting the award.

Source | bikeracing.it and motosprint.it

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