Valentino Rossi
Valentino Rossi
Valentino Rossiis an Italian professional motorcycle racer and multiple MotoGP World Champion. He is considered to be the greatest and one of the most successful motorcycle racers of all time, with nine Grand Prix World Championships to his name – seven of which are in the premier class...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionMotorcycle Racer
Date of Birth16 February 1979
CityUrbino, Italy
CountryItaly
beginning casey expect good honest job season strong
To be honest I didn't expect Casey to be so strong at the beginning of the season and he is doing a very good job on the Honda.
good
(But Michael) Schumacher, I know well. We have a good relationship.
bike days engine gives good hope smooth
The bike gives me a good feeling. Also the engine is very smooth in acceleration so I'm happy. And it's just the first day, we have another two days and we hope to do good work.
bike changes corners fast few full good lap looking lots means potential problems quite riders speed team today tried vibration within work yesterday
We still have quite a few problems with the vibration and this means that we can't use the bike to its full potential and make fast lap times. We've tried lots of changes to the set-up today - balance, suspension, but the problem remains. In some of the fast corners my speed is down by as much as 15 or 20kms. The good thing is that we're much better than yesterday and we've done some really good work within the team to make these improvements, but it's still not enough and some other riders are looking very strong.
bad good luck win
Unfortunately, Sete had a problem, which was bad luck for him because he should have been on the podium. Anyway, this is a good win for me and now I just need one more for the title. But it is not over yet.
both fantastic forward good however looking race tracks
However I am looking forward to the two new Grands Prixs; both Shanghai and Laguna Seca are fantastic tracks and it will be good to race at them.
catching couple fourth good grid row start third
I made good start from the fourth row of the grid and was catching Marco in third place after he made a couple of mistakes,
silly thinking good-relationship
The most important thing is to have a good relationship with the bike... you have to understand what she wants. I think of a motorcycle as a woman, and I know that sounds silly, but it's true.
ferrari invited since
Ferrari invited me to come and test, and since I was on vacation, I went,
everybody starts target wants year
Every year starts from scratch. I know that I am the one everybody wants to beat. It's like I have a target on my back.
behind best catch points start
Qatar was like the start of my championship but we're already behind in the points and we need to do our best to catch up.
gives great last motivation motivational racing taste yamaha
Racing with Yamaha gives me a great taste and a great motivation to win; these last two championships have been two of the best,
follow point tried
At this point we don't know which way to follow because we have tried everything.
bit complacent easy fact ferrari following ready team tougher win year
Did the fact that 2004 was so (relatively) easy to win the championship make Ferrari a little bit more complacent going into 2005, and following on from that, does this year being so difficult, make the team tougher and ready for 2006?