Motivation is the key. More than training, more than experience or age, motivation counts. You have to ask yourself: 'Why am I racing?' I race because I like it, because I'm really enjoying it. I like to set up my bike and ride it on track. After 20 years in the GPs I'm still highly motivated. Everything else is a consequence.

I never race for records. The motivation to try to beat the record is not enough to continue. You have to enjoy it.

To win the Championship in the first year will be hard. We need time to become competitive and win races.

The speed is something dangerous but very exciting.

Maybe if Graziano make another work or another sport I wouldn't have had this passion to be a rider.

Fortunately during my career I have won more or less everything, so I need to enjoy it to have the right motivation.

Nowadays, we have to deal with so many more factors that weren't there in the past. It's not enough to be a good rider, if you want to finish at the front. The riders have become incredible athletes. In the past, you could manage the race and fight only on the last laps. Now you need to train hard. You cannot allow yourself to go on track without being at 100 percent.