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MOTOGP: Interview: Valentino Rossi
Written by: Colin Young   
06/29/2009
Assen (NED)
 
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Valentino Rossi celebrated one of greatest victories with beers, bull sessions, and dreams about one his the more sublime overtaking moves of his glittering MotoGP career. But his mind has quickly turned to the next challenge, Saturday's Dutch TT in Assen, the seventh round of the MotoGP world championship.

And Rossi is locked in a tense three-way title fight with young rivals Jorge Lorenzo and Casey Stoner, the trio all on 106 points -- with two race wins each -- after six GPs. Rossi now expects the battle top go all the way to the wire until the final race of the 17-event championship that concludes in Valencia.

And he is wary of the surge from his Yamaha teammate Lorenzo and the ever-present threat of Ducati ace Stoner who dismantled Rossi's dominance with his 2007 world title win.

Stoner won last year's Dutch TT with a near perfect race -- winning by 11 seconds and setting a new lap record after starting from pole position
-- in what the Australian described as one of easiest victories.

“I think this situation will remain until the last part of the world championship because Casey and Jorge both have good bikes and good tires and the experience to fight for the title," Rossi said. "It will be very interesting in the last part of the season. For me this battle will arrive to the end."

Rossi's stupendous last-lap battle with Lorenzo with the lead changing four times was one of the great final laps in Grand Prix history.

Rossi won with a startling, last corner move on Lorenzo who thought he had the race in his grasp with the finish line in sight.

It was truly a victory worth celebrating.

“It was a good party but nothing too crazy," said Rossi. "I went with my guys to a restaurant owned by a good friend in Barcelona. We ate some fish and drank a little bit, and talked some bull but not too late."


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