MotoGP Americas: Rossi: 'You make a small mistake, you pay'
Valentino Rossi suffered his first MotoGP non-finish since Aragon 2014 during Sunday's Aus𒉰tin race.
The Italian fell from his M🔯ovistar Yamaha on lap 3 of the grand prix, the front of his M1 sliding away through the fast Turn 2 right-hander.
"For sure the situation is different for this year with these tyres," Rossi explained. "Because last year 🔴the Bridgestone had some other problem but were very safe on the front.
"This year if you make a small mistake, you pay. Because at that corner I entered at the same speed, but have two bumps - maybe I was more inside and I 🍨lose the front. So you have tꦰo concentrate, be precise and try not to make any mistake in the race.
"When I under✅stan𒅌d [what had happened] already the bike was 30 metres or more in front of me!"
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"Michelin can work but especially we have to work on the bikes, try to improve the bikes to make a better match with these tyres and especially try not to make any mis💃take🅷," he said.
"For me like this is quite normal. I think it is like with the Pi💜relli in Superbike; If you make a mistake you crash. The Bridgestone you could make some small mistake without crashing.
"The Michelin tyres have good performance, are good to ride and I like. The problem is you can't m﷽ake a mistake."
Rossi had been as high as🤡 second on the opening lap only to be swallowed by the pack along the back straight, demoting him to sixth, the position he later fell from. The Doctor revealed his lack of acceleration was down to a clutch issue.
"My problem today is that I burned the clutch on the start. For some reason this year with the clutch we are a little bit more in trouble and already in Argentina had some problem. But this time I burned the clutch so I had a lot of problems in the firꦗst two laps because it slipped a lot and I had to open the throttle 50% on the straight," he said.
"But I was there and think I have to st🌃ay quiet because u🍸sually after the start the temperature [of the clutch] goes down and the feeling comes back. In fact I felt the feeling come back but after I did the mistake, maybe I lost concentration.
"Itꦡ's an great shame because we worked very well this weekend, I was very competitive - more than in the past here - and could do a good race. But I did a mistake. It happens."
The rare DNF leaves Rossi third in the world championship, but already 33-points behind Sunday's winner Marc Marque🌳z.
Rossi's team-mate and reigning ch🙈ampion, who fell at the previous round in Argentina, is 12-point𝓡s clear of Rossi after finishing runner-up in Austin.
Peter has been in the pad🌞dock for 20 years and has seen Valentino Rossi come and go. He is at the forefront of the Suzuk💝i exit story and Marc Marquez’s injury issues.
