MotoGP | Australian GP Press Conference: Valentino Rossi, “The motivation is not lacking”

MotoGP Australian GP Phillip Island Press Conference – Valentino Rossi was one of the protagonists of the Pre-GP press conference at Phillip Island, the track where the seventeenth stage of the 2019 MotoGP class MotoGP World Championship is scheduled for Sunday.

The "Doctor", fresh from disappointing results to say the least and from the crash at Motegi, hopes to be able to reverse the trend and will try to be competitive from Friday. Sunday will be his 400th GP, a GP which has often seen him as a protagonist in the past.

His palmares at Phillip Island is impressive, let's list it: he won consecutively from 2001 to 2005 and crossed the finish line first also in 2014. He came second in 2008, 2009, 2016, 2017 and third in 2000, 2006 , 2007, 2010 and 2013.

Statements Valentino Rossi Australian GP Phillip Island Press Conference

“It's nice to celebrate 400 GPs in a Grand Prix like this, we've come a long way, Phillip Island is an icon, it's a place loved by riders and fans. It's the best place to celebrate the 400th GP, now we'll see the weather, it's nice now but maybe it's too early, it could get worse for the race. If at the beginning of my career they had told me that I would run 400 races, I don't know how I would have reacted, I was young and I wasn't thinking about that."

Statements Valentino Rossi Australian GP Phillip Island Press Conference Lack of Victories

“First of all, it must be said that lately in MotoGP the situation has been increasingly strange. The future is decided well in advance, everyone wants to sign as soon as possible to secure their future. As for motivation, if the results are there it is certainly easier, but I am still motivated and if there is no motivation in difficult moments you have to be good at making it come back."

Valentino Rossi Statements Australian GP Phillip Island Press Conference Two-finger braking

“In the last period these bikes have changed a lot in braking, we have tried new things. We started using two fingers, but here the front braking is not very hard.”