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If I test the car for a year I can be quite competitive the next season.

Valentino Rossi

We kept on racing, doing something that Luis [Salom] loved. Fortunately or unfortunately, life goes on.
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Life Love Race
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
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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It is dangerous and unbelievably fast and entirely different from the kind of track I am used to racing on.
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Believe Dangerous Different Kind Myself Race
It is dangerous and unbelievably fast and entirely different from the kind of track I am used to racing on.
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Believe Dangerous Different Kind Myself Race
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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Fortunately during my career I have won more or less everything, so I need to enjoy it to have the right motivation.
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Career Enjoyment Motivational Myself Need Win
The speed is something dangerous but very exciting.
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Dangerous Excitement Speed
Our sport is dangerous. We risk the life out there, so we need to stay calm and focused and leave all the rest out.
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In 2009, I didn’t like that Yamaha signed such a young and competitive teammate [Jorge Lorenzo]. But now everything is different. We are more mature. Everyone knows his role and position. Things are clear.
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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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How do Ferrari know what I’m doing next year when I don’t know what I’m doing next week?
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To be a great motorbike racer, the most important thing is passion for the bike.
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The great fights with your strongest rivals are always the biggest motivation. When you win easily it’s not the same taste.
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I would have probably stolen cars – it would have given me the same adrenaline rush as racing.
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If I test the car for a year I can be quite competitive the next season.
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Competition Myself Quite Season
I don’t like being famous – it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
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I’m very happy because I won a lot. I’ve won races and lived in a world that just gave me joy, so I remember it very positively.
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I am completely focused on being strong, riding fast, and enjoying myself. With the new generation of riders, only the chronometer counts. I need to be faster than them on track.
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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.
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Achievement Better Big Improvement Quite Way Winter Worst
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
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
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.
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I’m Valentino Rossi. And I want to be a person, not an icon.
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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.
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Big Change Time Understand
The most important thing is to have a good relationship with the bike you have to understand what she wants. I think of a motorcycle as a woman, and I know that sounds silly, but it’s true.
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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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If I test the car for a year I can be quite competitive the next season.

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