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
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 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.
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 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,
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.
work-out understanding machines
It's a big, big advantage because understanding what changes we might make takes time and it takes time to work out settings and to understand everything about the new machine.
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.
australia circuit country everybody interested nice tired trip visit
Everybody is very tired after the trip to Australia but it is always nice to visit a new country and we are all interested to see the new circuit in Turkey,
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.
battle best bike fantastic great race riders team thank win year
It was a fantastic race and my best race of the year by far. It was a battle between great riders and it was fantastic to win like this. I would like to say thank you to my team because the bike was very, very fast.
areas bigger couple including last
They've made some modifications here over the last couple of years including resurfacing, bigger run-off areas and better curbing,
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,
best maybe pleasure race saw winners
I never saw him race but they tell me he was one of the best, maybe the best ever. I am now on the podium of all-time winners and this is a big pleasure for me.
races win
It was like I had to win two races -- one in the dry, then in the wet.