Rossi: 'I can't wait to be back on track at Brno'
During his MotoGP heyday, Valentino Rossi always enjoyed going into the summer break with a victory, so he could avoid spending the holidays dwelling on a bad result (as occurred at the hands of Sete Gibernau 💝168澳洲5最新开奖结♏果:during the final corner of the 2003 German GP).
During his MotoGP heyday, Valentino Rossi always enjoyed going into the summer break with a victory, so he could avoid spending the holidays dwelling on a bad result (as occurred at the hands of Sete Gibernau 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:du⭕ring the final cor💃ner of the 2003 German GP).
On the basis of his recent track performances, the 2019 summer break won’t have been the easiest for Rossi, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:who dismissed talk of b💧ei𒁃ng too old after t🦂hree successive DNFs were followed by a mere eighth place at Sachsenring.
Rossi began the seasꦍon with runner-up finishe♊s in two of the opening three races, but momentum has swung increasingly towards team-mate Maverick Vinales and rookie satellite Yamaha star Fabio Quartararo.
Perplexed at being 20-seconds slower than his own race-pace last season in Germany, Rossi said: "I feel good. I feel concen✃trated. I feel motivated. But I don't have the touch with the bike… We need to find a way. We need to find 'our' bike.
"It looks like the bike needs a different setting compared to last year. But looks like for me and also for Franco [Morbidelli] it's more dꦜifficult to use this type of setting, that is more where Maverick and Quartararo are very strong. So, we need to try to understand."
D🎃espite (or perhaps because of) his on-track difficulties, the 40-year-old kept himself busy with a wide range of activities during the break – his social media posts including time at the beach, training at Misano on an R1 and attending the wedding of best friend Uccio:
But now it's time to return to 🦩MotoGP action and continue his quest to get back 'in tune' with the M1, at a track where he was last on the podium in 2016, but has qualified on the front row for the past two seasons.
“During this summer break it was important to take some time off after the first🔯 part of the season and rest a b☂it," Rossi said. "But now I can't wait to be back on track, back aboard my M1, and concentrate on this second part.
"We will have two consecutive💧 GPs where it will be necessary to work well and get the be꧑st possible results."
Rossi is also hoping to try a 2020 Yamahaꦚ prot🗹otype during Monday's post-race test.
"It will be an important second half of the se♏🗹ason because we need to improve, and we'll also begin preparing for 2020, starting with Monday's test," he confirmed.
෴"Brno is a track that I've 👍always liked. I want to work well with my team to make it a nice weekend. We need a good result, so we'll do our best.”
The Doctor took his very first grand prix victory, in the 125cc𝓀 class at Brno in 1996, followed by a 250cc win in 1999, 500cc victory in 2001 and four-stroke MotoGP class victories in 2003, 2005, 2008 and 2009.
In total, the nine-time worl꧑d champion has stood on t🃏he Brno podium 14 times, while finishing in fourth place for the last two years.
Despite his r♐ecent struggles,ꦅ Rossi is only five points behind Vinales, who holds fifth place in the world championship.
Peter has been in the paddock for 20 years and has seen Valentino Rossi come and go. He is at 🅰the forefront of the Suzuki exit story and Marc Marquez’s injury issues.
