It was like I had to win two races -- one in the dry, then in the wet. |
It would be great to have Valentino in F1, but he wouldn't have even a minimal chance of winning. |
It's a fantastic track and if the bike is okay it's a great pleasure to ride. |
It's a magic track for me, |
It's going to be a really difficult race because it's such a demanding circuit, |
It's great to equal Mick's record but the numbers are not the most important thing today because this win was a great emotion after my problems with the crash in the first race and some vibration problems with my new bike. |
My title rivals are behind me but at the moment I am not thinking about that. My target is to finish on the podium and then we'll see where everybody else is. |
Now I go back to Italy for a couple of days but we can also make a little party here - I have my mother and some of my best friends from Italy to help me celebrate! |
Our bike worked really well when we went to Qatar for pre-season testing so we hope that this will be the case again. |
Qatar was like the start of my championship but we're already behind in the points and we need to do our best to catch up. |
Racing with Yamaha gives me a great taste and a great motivation to win; these last two championships have been two of the best, |
Records are not the most important thing but I am very happy to have the same number of victories as 'Mike the Bike', |
Saturday's session will be very close. |
So, 11 victories is fantastic and always race in this track is different, is magic, ... I win a lot of times here, a lot of important races for my career and I love this track. |
Starting from the third row will make life difficult tomorrow as it will be hard to overtake, |