MotoGP Phillip Island Preview: Rossi, “In Australia to turn the page”

The Yamaha champion is fresh from the Motegi crash

MotoGP Phillip Island Preview: Rossi, “In Australia to turn the page”MotoGP Phillip Island Preview: Rossi, “In Australia to turn the page”

Australian GP Phillip Island Yamaha MotoGP – Valentino Rossi wants to forget the Japanese Grand Prix, a test in which he was never competitive and where he crashed during the race, fortunately without physical consequences. At Phillip Island, scene of the Australian Grand Prix, the Yamaha champion is hoping for good weather to be able to work on the setting of his M1 on a track where he has always achieved excellent results. Rossi won from 2001 to 2005 in the Top Class, as well as five consecutive podiums from 2006 to 2010.

“I arrive in Australia after a complicated race, but I'm in a good mood because I want to work in the best possible way with my team and solve the problems we had in Japan as quickly as possible, to get back to having enjoyable races,” said Valentino Rossi. Phillip Island is a circuit I like and I hope the weather here is good to start working straight away in dry conditions. After the accident in Japan I feel quite good, I just have a little pain. Now I hope for good weather for the whole weekend!”

Photos: Alex Farinelli

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5 comments
  • max3isback said:

    Don't worry, Bridgestone said they will provide you with tires for this race, so everything is fine ;)

  • light said:

    Let's hope he at least stops complaining about the tyres, whatever the tire he is referring to, be it front, rear or spare, the tires are the same for everyone and he should (note the conditional) have the experience and ability to set the motorbike correctly. Is the rumor that last year only came to us after a peek at the setting used by Lorenzo true? I don't know and I don't want to believe it, too much experience for that to be the case, but now he's making a statement that says it all. I remember a driver, much mistreated, who however ended his career as world champion, this slow "unravelling", these continuous complaints, are painful when they come from a driver like him (Vale) who has won so much.

    I still continue to think back to the pre-season and the first races, Yamaha was in full boom, but only with Maveric. Vale began to say that this and that needed to be changed. He was the promoter of the use of different tyres. He wanted modified chassis. Each of these changes contributed to Yamaha sinking deeper and deeper. The bad thing is that you still don't want to see what you have anymore and it's obvious, this time Valentino is screwed and there's little to add.

    Great Ducati
    Great Dovizioso
    Great Lorenzo

    1. Fernando said:

      Great Ducati yes
      Great Dovizioso yes
      Great Lorenzo????? Great salary... but not really in terms of performance, I think Dovi is fighting for the championship, not Lorenzo...

  • ueueue said:

    But Ligiera, stop talking nonsense

    If you don't like ROSsi read MM's posts and don't make things up.. or are you someone else who was in the garage while Vale asked Lorenzo what to do?
    hahaha

    Apart from the fact that teams with 2 riders compare themselves and it's normal, MM and Pedrosa do it too etc etc I don't see why you say this and in that way.

    The bike goes faster, even than last year in the dry..how much did they test it in the wet?
    They didn't force the frame they changed on maverik... it's clear that he liked the new one too.

    ah no sorry it's just Vale's "fault"...

    but it goes...

    1. light said:

      First you say that I'm making it up that Vale may have had help looking at Lorenzo's settings, then you say that it's normal. Do you see a bit of contradiction in this? Then don't put things in my mouth that I didn't say, I wrote that he took a peek (as is normal, you wrote it too) and I didn't write that Vale asked Lorenzo what to do. As always, you want to read what is most convenient for you and you take it as an insult to your idol, while mine is just an observation, given that last year, he always settled down during the WU and strangely, he always liked it every change is good, never that a change in the dark has been worsening. This year this is no longer the case and this is a fact.
      A fact such as that at the beginning of the year Yamaha was not doing well, not very well, but the changes made (who if not by Vale considered the experience as a rider and developer?) were worsening. It's a fact, but admitting it is really difficult for you fans, I see.
      They didn't force maveric on him….. Here I ask you: "were you in the pits or in a meeting?" To tell the truth, on the chassis it seems to me that Vinales didn't want it, but in fact now we ride with it. The tyres, you have a lot to say that everyone was in favor of. First of all, a modification like this had never been seen, a modification put forward by a pilot who then dragged others along and in any case there were those against it and there were also indifferent pilots, so the percentage of those in favor is not so plebiscite as we tend to point out.
      This year Vale blew it, is it that difficult to admit? When the bike was going well, he was thought of as a development wizard, now that things are going badly, the blame must be placed on others. This is how Vale has always done it, this is how it has always worked for him and this is how it also works for his fans, I note with relative surprise. Never talk about these things, it would be a sin of treason

      Great Duchy
      Great Dovizioso
      Great Lorenzo

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