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
circuit interested
We are all interested to see the new circuit in Turkey,
ferrari lap reveal
I can't reveal the lap times, because Ferrari do not want to,
safest tracks
For sure, it's one of the safest tracks in the world.
bikes riders test
I think it's going to test the riders and the bikes to the maximum.
demanding difficult race
It's going to be a really difficult race because it's such a demanding circuit,
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.
greatest occasion remember riders
He was one of the greatest riders and it was a great occasion to remember him,
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.
stability struggling sure tomorrow
For sure tomorrow will be difficult. We are still struggling with stability and grip.
break everybody half needed season tough
This break was very important because the first half of the season has been very tough and everybody needed to rest,
honda ride thinks won yamaha
Before that everyone thinks you must ride Honda to become world champion. Yamaha had not won the championship for a very long time.
achieve asked constantly family impossible maybe normal start
To relax, maybe start a family and live a normal life. This would be impossible to achieve in Italy, where I am asked constantly for my autograph.
grip improve lost order
We made some modifications in order to improve the acceleration and unfortunately we lost a lot of grip in braking.
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.