I'm really happy, and beating Marc [Marquez] at the very last chicane gives me an extra boost.

You need a combination of many things to get good results. Experience is one of these, and it can be very useful at the right moment. I don't know if it helps to go faster, but for sure it's an important element that has helped me a lot. Being experienced helps you to make fewer mistakes when you are on track. This is the positive side for being around for so many years!

The work that we do during the winter is very important; we have a new bike and it's important to develop it during this time.

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

It is dangerous and unbelievably fast and entirely different from the kind of track I am used to racing on

I try to have a different relationship with the bike. I don't give it a name, but I always speak with it. I don't know if the other riders do the same. This is not only a piece of metal - there is a soul. The bike talks back too. But not with a voice, with the components

I'm Valentino Rossi. And I want to be a person, not an icon.