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ROSSI STATES HE WANTS TO RACE IN WORLD SUPERBIKES

23/07/2010

Rossi on the Fiat 500 liveried YZR-M1 unveiled yesterday

By AMA Reporter Carole Shellby
Image by Yamaha Racing

Fiat Yamaha's Valentino Rossi has said in a Laguna Seca press conference he would like to, one day, be involved in a World Superbike race following his two tests with the Sterilgarda squad at Misano and Brno.

Speaking in front of the assembled media in California, The Doctor says that he isn't bothered who else is in the race he just wants to have fun on a big bike that slides around. Below is what was said:

Q: You were very fast on the Superbike. There were rumours a few years ago that you wanted to race against Troy Bayliss.

Rossi: Yes! I want to make a race in Superbikes. After the story with Bayliss appeared I was happy. But for me is interesting, maybe in the future I will do this.

Q: To ride with Biaggi or the guys in Superbike?

Rossi: I want to make a race in Superbikes, for me it's not important if is with Biaggi, Bayliss, or somebody else.

Q: When you rode the R1, certainly in Brno, your lap times were immediately very fast even though you were not at 100% and you had no experience of Pirelli tires, what do you think your performance showed about the difference between the level of riders in World Superbikes and the level of riders in MotoGP?

Rossi: For me, our level is clearly higher than Superbikes. No doubt. I don't know the people that continue to say that we have a fight with the two. So, the best riders race in MotoGP, and the Superbike motorcycles are easier to ride, Pirelli are more easy than Bridgestone.

But at the same time, I have the sense that it's fun, the bike is big, is fat, slide, move everywhere. The races are fun, have a lot of very good riders over there, so is for that that I enjoy a lot Superbike. But I don't want to make a ranking, because MotoGP, the level is higher, this is clear.

Transcript courtesy www.motomatters.com

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