Valentino Rossi difficulties on the Ducati has everyone in Italy wondering what he’ll do next and naturally when someone of the calibre of the former 9-time World Champion isn’t keeping up the MotoGP TV audience ratings, someone decides to help his sliding popularity with a cute little interview.
Italian TV show Le Iene (you’ve probably seen several of their funny videos on our blog) and interviewer, Rosario Rosanova decided to put Rossi on the spot and have him take over the role of the interviewer and ask dad Graziano’s opinion about his son’s problems.
The video is available on Sportmediaset.
com here and for those of you who can’t access it, it shows footage of Rossi’s home town and house at Tavullia, his mom Stefania Palma, his two famous bulldogs Cesare and Cecilia, the Rossi Fan Club and Pizzeria, Valentino changing from his jeans and sweatshirt (there’s footage of him half naked in which he laughingly says after this maybe he can get laid) to a black suit and then finding Graziano at the Bar da Rossi to interview him.
The translation after the jump: V: How do you see Valentino in this time of crisis?G: You can’t absolutely question the bike.
The rider Valentino is today, in my opinion, in better shape than ever.
With a little luck he’ll turn it around mid-season or maybe even before that.
V: Why hasn’t this duo Ducati-Rossi won a race so far?G: Unfortunately with that bike no one could have won, because if there was rider who could have won, that would have been Valentino.
V: What should the men in Ducati do to make the bike easier for Valentino to ride?G: A easier engine to exploit and a weight distribution that corrects the understeer problem, because in the end it’s like taking a woman to the bedroom, you do different things but at the end it’s always the same.
The Ducati is made like the other bikesV: Would you like to say something to Filippo Preziosi, the soul of Ducati’s project?G: I would like to compliment him for this engine that very powerful.
I’d like say that today the rideability of the engine is very important rather than absolute performance.
V: But would you give some advice or say something to Valentino?G: I’d like to give him this advice, even if things are not going well and he feels like giving up, absolutely not, now it isn’t time to give up.
V: So what do you say to those people who say that Valentino has no longer the motivation to race or is old?G: There will always be people who are against Valentino, this also happened even when he was winning 12 or 14 races a year and to these people the only answer is to prove it on track.
V: So wouldn’t it be better if Valentino left Ducati?G: Valentino can’t leave Ducati in this moment, it’s a challenge that he has to win together with Ducati.
V: What do you think will happen now that the Ducati has been purchased by Audi? Do you think it is positive?G: I definitely think so, if it won’t be for this year.
it will be definitely next year.
V: What do you say to those fans who want to see Valentino against Biaggi in Superbike?G: This Superbike project that is something that Valentino is following with great attention, there are still probably 2, 3 or 4 years of MotoGP before he’ll get on a Superbike.
V: I agree … How to get out of these moment of difficulty, in three words.
G: Patience for another three races