Valentino shares his views on his championship lead, Stoner's crashes and meeting Diego Maradona
Now with 75 points in hand over Stoner in the overall standings, Rossi told Spanish journalists: "At the beginning of the year I thought that I would have to be riding the best I ever have in order to challenge Stoner for the title so to be 75 points in the lead by now is amazing. But it has not been easy to do that.
"I have made many changes to be able to do what we have done so far. I am riding well and I have a great team with me. The people at Yamaha are very good and this year I have been able to have the Bridgestone tyres, there is a great relation between me and the tyres! Now everything goes better for me. I always have thought that I could fight against Stoner but I admit that I was worried in three races where he was so strong but from Laguna Seca things have changed. That race was a key point in the championship.
"Before we went there Stoner was on another planet… but we have managed to turn that around and now we are not so far away from him. And lately, clearly, he has committed two very important errors.
"Meeting Maradonna at Misano was very good. He has kissed me on the hand and then I thought about bending down and kissing his left foot, but we were in the grid getting ready to race and so it was a little complicated. "He said to me: `You are history' and I told him: `No, you are history, always.'"
Posted: 03/09/2008 at 10:59
Hang on a minute, two greats together? Are you having a fucking laugh?
Rossi has won his way to be called great!
The fucking Donna cheating coke taking fat fucking bastard has like I said cheated his way to becoming famous? Are you foreign and dumb as fuck by any chance? Are you South American?
Maradonna is a cunt!
Don't confuse him with the likes of Rossi!
Posted: 03/09/2008 at 23:28
TimskiT wrote (see)
Hang on a minute, two greats together? Are you having a fucking laugh?Rossi has won his way to be called great!The fucking Donna cheating coke taking fat fucking bastard has like I said cheated his way to becoming famous? Are you foreign and dumb as fuck by any chance? Are you South American?Maradonna is a cunt!Don't confuse him with the likes of Rossi!
Posted: 03/09/2008 at 23:30
Posted: 03/09/2008 at 23:42
I agree with this too!!!!
Great article though, cheers for posting
Posted: 04/09/2008 at 00:29
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Posted: 04/09/2008 at 01:32
iMarcus wrote (see)
I'm just surprised Rossi didnpt want to kiss m'donna's hand after all he's more famous for that than his left foot
Posted: 04/09/2008 at 07:15
THE DOCTOR THE GREATEST THE DOCTOR THE GREATEST THE DOCTOR THE GREATEST
Posted: 04/09/2008 at 10:13
Maradonna's an evil genius. But he is, in fact, a genius. That second goal against England in the '86 World Cup was poetry.
Just because Anthony Gobert's a granny-bashing druggie doesn't mean he wasn't once sublime on a bike. Are Mick Doohan's achievements lessened because he's a drunken thug? Or Rossi's because he tried to swindle the tax man out of tens of millions?
Posted: 04/09/2008 at 12:50
Posted: 04/09/2008 at 15:27
+1
Posted: 08/09/2008 at 19:38
DBRacingGod wrote (see)
Are Mick Doohan's achievements lessened because he's a drunken thug?
Posted: 09/09/2008 at 00:20
Maradonna was a footballing legend. He had the sort of skills that the England team has lacked since gazza went into meltdown and the sort of skills that Capello would sell his granny down the market for !
Really not all that intrested in what he got up to off the pitch tbh.
Posted: 09/09/2008 at 22:57
i cant believe im reading some of this??????
maradonna a legend?
in my book the minute you cheat you lose all legend status and become a tosser,
the difference is rossi swindling the taxman wasnt cheating at motorcycle racing and doohan nutting a bloke didnt make his bike any quicker
Posted: 11/09/2008 at 15:54
Posted: 11/09/2008 at 18:33