Valentino Rossi

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

My father raced bikes. He gave me the passion very early. I had my first bike when I was three or four years old.

It is a big problem and so I don't know for sure if I say yes or no to Ferrari.

I always enjoyed myself a lot in pre-school.

But I could also start F1 or rallying. I love rallying much more.

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

I have won on Honda and Yamaha so maybe it is interesting to win with a third team, Ducati, who are Italian.

It's a big, big advantage because understanding what changes we might make takes time and it takes time to work out settings and to understand everything about the new machine.

How do Ferrari know what I'm doing next year when I don't know what I'm doing next week?

My normal life is like being on holiday.

As for the level of spectacle of the two disciplines, I leave it to the people who watch the races to comment.

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

Once the races begin it's more difficult and there is never that much time for testing.

We have the 2004 M1 here for reference, which is useful. It worked well here last year; we won the race and always did fast lap times so it will be interesting to compare it to the new bike and it will help us to understand which parts have improved.

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, and we start with this test.

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

In 2002 the Yamaha was at more or less the same level as the Honda, better in some ways, worse in others. But in the winter of last year between 2002 and 2003, Honda made a big step forward and it seemed as if Yamaha couldn't quite match that improvement.

To be a great motorbike racer, the most important thing is passion for the bike.

You look at Moto3, the races are very exciting. Moto2 is fantastic, and then MotoGP is boring.

In my opinion we are at the limit now, and 17 races is really too much. With all the testing that we do now, it means we're always on the bike and it's quite difficult.