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
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.
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?
bad last memories race sand score settle track year
I always race to win, but last year it was like a motocross track and there was so much sand out there. I've got really bad memories of last year and you could say I have a score to settle with the circuit,
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.
years car tests
If I test the car for a year I can be quite competitive the next season.
winter years yamaha
In 2002 the Yamaha was at more or less the same level as the Honda, better in some ways, worse in others. But in the winter of last year between 2002 and 2003, Honda made a big step forward and it seemed as if Yamaha couldn't quite match that improvement.
race years interesting
We have the 2004 M1 here for reference, which is useful. It worked well here last year; we won the race and always did fast lap times so it will be interesting to compare it to the new bike and it will help us to understand which parts have improved
winning years race
To win the Championship in the first year will be hard. We need time to become competitive and win races
next-week years next-year
How do Ferrari know what I'm doing next year when I don't know what I'm doing next week?
ferrari invited since
Ferrari invited me to come and test, and since I was on vacation, I went,
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.
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.