<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE <div class='quotemain'>ROAD RACING - Rossi Staying Put
By Henny Ray Abrams
Going for Eight 9/15/2005
Valentino Rossi isn’t going anywhere.
That was the unmistakable message after the pre-race press conference for the Japanese Grand Prix at Motegi.
The soon-to-be seven-time world champion denied in the strongest possible terms that his move to the Ferrari Formula One team was imminent, even using a mild expletive to refute a report from a senior Ferrari official.
“When I hear this interview from Ross Brawn, for me it’s very funny because I don’t know,” he said, referring to comments made by the Ferrari technical director that Rossi would be testing as often as once a month beginning later this year. “For me, is a lot of ........, because if I decide…I already decide for another year of MotoGP for sure. And for sure if I do another year is for try to win, so I think it’s already a big effort to try for the championship.”
As far as testing once a month, Rossi said, “For sure I don’t have time to do a lot of tests for the car. And especially at this point, I don’t make my decision. So this is at the end the most important. So I don’t know also if I go to the car. Maybe yes, but maybe no. Speaking already about tests for me is like speaking in ten years. I don’t know what happens next week in my life. For sure in two years, I don’t know.”
Rossi said that the switch to four wheels would have to be clean.
“If I want to try a lot in Formula One, I decide to stop at the end of this year and next year to change sport,” he said, “but if I am here, I am here to win. To win I need to personally be 100% at this sport. Is not easy win for me. Is not possible. So I make another year with bike just to wait and win like this? Is not real.
“Maybe Ferrari need to speak also with me because the very important thing is don’t make decision for the future. So maybe also I never race with Formula One. And if I decide yes, for sure next year I don’t do a lot of tests, because I race with MotoGP. In all my life I am a motorcycle rider for 100%. Sometimes I make some tests, maybe in the future. I don’t know. Next year for sure I race here for Yamaha; my effort is 100% of this championship and after we see.”
Rossi said if he did move to car racing, it would be straight to F-1. He has no interest in cutting his teeth in a learner class.
“If I want to go, is important to make a lot of kilometers with that car,” he said. “So all the riders start from small cars, like, I don’t know, Formula Three, because they haven’t the opportunity to arrive straight to Formula One. So I am Valentino Rossi, I win six championships, and maybe I have this opportunity. So this is my advantage, no?”
http://www.cyclenews.com/ShowStory.asp?HeadlineID=8240
nothing i've read so far ever has anything straight out of valentino's mouth about f1.
By Henny Ray Abrams
Going for Eight 9/15/2005
Valentino Rossi isn’t going anywhere.
That was the unmistakable message after the pre-race press conference for the Japanese Grand Prix at Motegi.
The soon-to-be seven-time world champion denied in the strongest possible terms that his move to the Ferrari Formula One team was imminent, even using a mild expletive to refute a report from a senior Ferrari official.
“When I hear this interview from Ross Brawn, for me it’s very funny because I don’t know,” he said, referring to comments made by the Ferrari technical director that Rossi would be testing as often as once a month beginning later this year. “For me, is a lot of ........, because if I decide…I already decide for another year of MotoGP for sure. And for sure if I do another year is for try to win, so I think it’s already a big effort to try for the championship.”
As far as testing once a month, Rossi said, “For sure I don’t have time to do a lot of tests for the car. And especially at this point, I don’t make my decision. So this is at the end the most important. So I don’t know also if I go to the car. Maybe yes, but maybe no. Speaking already about tests for me is like speaking in ten years. I don’t know what happens next week in my life. For sure in two years, I don’t know.”
Rossi said that the switch to four wheels would have to be clean.
“If I want to try a lot in Formula One, I decide to stop at the end of this year and next year to change sport,” he said, “but if I am here, I am here to win. To win I need to personally be 100% at this sport. Is not easy win for me. Is not possible. So I make another year with bike just to wait and win like this? Is not real.
“Maybe Ferrari need to speak also with me because the very important thing is don’t make decision for the future. So maybe also I never race with Formula One. And if I decide yes, for sure next year I don’t do a lot of tests, because I race with MotoGP. In all my life I am a motorcycle rider for 100%. Sometimes I make some tests, maybe in the future. I don’t know. Next year for sure I race here for Yamaha; my effort is 100% of this championship and after we see.”
Rossi said if he did move to car racing, it would be straight to F-1. He has no interest in cutting his teeth in a learner class.
“If I want to go, is important to make a lot of kilometers with that car,” he said. “So all the riders start from small cars, like, I don’t know, Formula Three, because they haven’t the opportunity to arrive straight to Formula One. So I am Valentino Rossi, I win six championships, and maybe I have this opportunity. So this is my advantage, no?”
http://www.cyclenews.com/ShowStory.asp?HeadlineID=8240
nothing i've read so far ever has anything straight out of valentino's mouth about f1.
