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
sports passion thinking
The tragic incident of Luis Salom reminds us that our sport, our passion, is dangerous. We know it but, in a way, we don't think about it.
sports passion riders
Maybe if Graziano make another work or another sport I wouldn't have had this passion to be a rider
passion car dangerous
Maybe the bike is more dangerous, but the passion for the car for me is second to the bike.
passion important racers
To be a great motorbike racer, the most important thing is passion for the bike.
circuit interested
We are all interested to see the new circuit in Turkey,
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.
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!