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
hardest races
That was one of the hardest races of the season,
factory fantastic hard relationship stay team worked yamaha
I have a fantastic relationship with this factory and my team crew, who have worked so hard to make the M1 as competitive as it is now, and it just made sense to stay with Yamaha for another year.
bike came confident felt harder pushed
I felt confident with the bike and I pushed harder but Nicky came with me,
difficult hard life row starting third tomorrow
Starting from the third row will make life difficult tomorrow as it will be hard to overtake,
bit harder however race testing won
Testing the day after a race is always a bit difficult, and when you have won the race it is even harder to feel motivated! However we know that we have to keep improving, because the championship is not over yet and anything could happen!
home humility hard-work
I think the secret is to understand that you still want to be part of the game. To do so, you have to forget all the victories you've managed to get in the previous years and have a great humility. You also need to realise that, if you want to go on, you have to work hard. If you dwell too much on your past successes and say "well, I have won nine world titles and more than 100 races", you'd rather stay home.
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?
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.
battle best
That was the best battle of the year!