Valentino Rossi's final Mot💮oGP test, almost 22-years after the first, came to an end at his home Misano circuit on Wednesday afternoon.

As the 42-year-old, who will retire at the end of this season, admitted💯, testing can be a lot of hard work without the rewards of a race weekend.

"It's the last test so it's an important moment, but sincerely speaking I will not miss the tests in the future!" smiled the nine time world champion. "Because it's always hard, hard work physically a꧋nd mentally. And it's difficult. It's the hard part of our job. I prefer the race weekends!"

Nonetheless, there have bee⛎n severalꦫ tests during Rossi's legendary career that stand-out the most, all of them linked with first experiences of a new bike or class.

"Yeah, like you said the tests that you remember are usually when you try for the first time a new bike. So I remember very well ✤the first test with the 250 but especially the first test with the Honda 500 in Jerez, with Jeremy [Burgess] and Bernie [Ansiau] for the first time. I think it was November or December🍸 1999. That was very impressive," Rossi said.

"After, I remember the first test of tꦑhe four-stroke Honda that was in Suzuka after the 8 Hours. We won the 8 hours with Colin [Edwards] and after we did th🐓e test with the first MotoGP bike. And it was August 2001 I think.

"The other test I remember very well was the first test with the Yamaha, in Sepang, in January of 200🌼4. The first time I tried the M1. Al✅so together with Jeremy. I think these are the better tests of my career."

Rossi's father Graziano was at the Misano track to watc🐼h his son's last laps outside of a grand prix week📖end.

"He understands [I'm retiring] now. He was the last🍨 to give up, because he wanted that I continue, but now he's okay and he came yesterday and today to see some laps," said Rossi, who traditionally signs-off each test with a lo♒ng wheelie on the main straight.

While Rossi didn't have any major new parts to try on his Petronas Yamaha, he was able to make 'positive' progress ahead of his final ꦓhome MotoGP appearance at the same Misaꦓno circuit in late October.

"The test was quite positive, especially yesterday was gooℱd because we don’t have new items to try but we try to concentrate on the settings and all the small details," Rossi said.

"We found💃 something good, esp🐟ecially yesterday, I had a good pace. I improved my pace. And also the time attack was quite good. Today we continued with another two or three very small things. All is okay, we finish our work. And stop."

After finishing just 17th in Sunday's race, Rossi was eleventh fastest on day one of the test (+0.646s), then 19th (+1.243s) in t🃏he Wednesday morning session. He rode for just 12 laps in the afternoon (19th).

Thꦏe Doctor now heads for COTA and the first of four remaining races before he hangs up his MotoGP leathers.

"We hope [to be stronger]. We work and we try to improve som♛e things, but now it depends very much track by track" he said.

"In two weeks we will race in Austin, Austin is a very particular track, very difficult. Full of bumps. Low grip. Not easy. And in 2019, the last time I was there, I was strong. So we wil🎀l see this time…"