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.
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!
race difficult testing
Once the races begin it's more difficult and there is never that much time for testing.
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!
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,
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,