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We kept on racing, doing something that Luis [Salom] loved. Fortunately or unfortunately, life goes on.

Valentino Rossi

To be a great motorbike racer, the most important thing is passion for the bike.
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Greatness Important Passion Race
I am still here because I like to prove myself. I still like to ride the bike on track and enjoy the races. I still have good reasons to be in racing after so many years.
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Enjoyment Goodness Myself Race Reason
To win the Championship in the first year will be hard. We need time to become competitive and win races.
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Competition Hard Need Race Time Win
I have designs I like applied to my helmet, motorcycle, riding suits, gloves,and boots. I have a designer friend of mine put the designs on them for me. I think a livery on the helmet is significant in expressing a rider’s personality.
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Appearance Design Expression Fashion Friendship Live Personality Ride
I am able to ride the bike and think clearly about strategy and tyres. I also have positive thinking. I am very constructively critical.
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Myself Positive Ride Strategy Thinking
You try to do a technical feature: in front of me I had a strong rider who brakes hard and it’s difficult to pass.
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Difficult Hard Myself Ride Strong Try
I have so much respect for my opponents; many of them watched the races as little children and were supporting me!
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The speed is something dangerous but very exciting.
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Dangerous Excitement Speed
Once the races begin it’s more difficult and there is never that much time for testing.
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Beginning Difficult Race Time
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.
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Dangerous Passion Sports Thinking Tragedy
Also, when I started racing he knew a lot of people and it was more easy for me to find the first bike, so I have a good chance for sure.
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Chance Easy Goodness Myself People Race Start
I try to have a different relationship with the bike. I don’t give it a name, but I always speak with it. I don’t know if the other riders do the same. This is not only a piece of metal – there is a soul. The bike talks back too. But not with a voice, with the components.
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Different Myself Pieces Relationship Soul Talk Try
Maybe if Graziano make another work or another sport I wouldn’t have had this passion to be a rider.
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Myself Passion Ride Sports Work
I have won on Honda and Yamaha so maybe it is interesting to win with a third team, Ducati, who are Italian.
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Change Different Dreams Myself Team Win
The work that we do during the winter is very important; we have a new bike and it’s important to develop it during this time.
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Development Important Time Work
If I test the car for a year I can be quite competitive the next season.
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Competition Myself Quite Season

We kept on racing, doing something that Luis [Salom] loved. Fortunately or unfortunately, life goes on.

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