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
bike case hope testing worked
Our bike worked really well when we went to Qatar for pre-season testing so we hope that this will be the case again.
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.
both hope rear wheel
Under braking I just clipped his rear wheel and we both crashed. I hope he is not in too much pain...
circuit interested
We are all interested to see the new circuit in Turkey,
happiness happy number records victories
Records are not the most important thing but I am very happy to have the same number of victories as 'Mike the Bike',
career races three track win won
I win a lot of times on this track and I think I've won two of the three most important races of my career here,
decided gone knew lap lost possible risky
I thought it was possible but then I decided it was too risky and after that I knew that the lap was gone and I had lost my advantage.
bike confident fantastic happy lap pole position second time tomorrow worked
I'm happy because the bike worked well. I was confident of a pole position but Nicky set a fantastic lap time ... and second position for tomorrow is not so bad.
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!
advantage means pressure remaining ride rounds six win
The advantage we have in the championship means that I can ride at each of the remaining six rounds without pressure to try to win every race,
battle best
That was the best battle of the year!
hardest races
That was one of the hardest races of the season,
bike confident great job pole position quite team weekend worked
I was quite confident for pole position because the team have done a great job with the bike this weekend and it worked well from yesterday,