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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.

Valentino Rossi

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
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
But I could also start F1 or rallying. I love rallying much more.
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Love Myself Option Start
The speed is something dangerous but very exciting.
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Dangerous Excitement Speed
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 race to win. If I am on the bike or in a car it will always be the same.
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Myself Race 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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Improvement Race Time Understand Win Work
In my opinion we are at the limit now, and 17 races is really too much. With all the testing that we do now, it means we’re always on the bike and it’s quite difficult.
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Difficult Limitation Myself Opinion Quite Race
We kept on racing, doing something that Luis [Salom] loved. Fortunately or unfortunately, life goes on.
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Life Love Race
Maybe the bike is more dangerous, but the passion for the car for me is second to the bike.
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Bike Dangerous Myself Passion
To be a great motorbike racer, the most important thing is passion for the bike.
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Greatness Important Passion Race
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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Competition Easy Fight Greatness Rival Strong Taste Yourself
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
I never race for records. The motivation to try to beat the record is not enough to continue. You have to enjoy it.
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Defeat Enjoyment Enough Motivational Race Record Try Yourself
I was lucky. My father raced bikes. He gave me the passion very early. I had my first bike when I was three or four years old.
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Father Lucky Myself Passion Young
I’m really happy, and beating Marc [Marquez] at the very last chicane gives me an extra boost.
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Defeat Excitement Happiness Myself

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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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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