Valentino Rossi and the story of Mugello

Mugello always special for Valentino Rossi, 46 team, all his fans and  all MotoGP fans. And like we knew Valentino always give more than 146% on this circuit. Last year I wrote the article about  His helmets for Mugello since 1996 until 2010 .And this season he will share to us how the story behind the scenes, presented by Monster Energy. And here I trying to write what he said about some of his helmet.

For every riders, their home GP is a special occasion, but for Valentino Rossi it's a love affair
Mugello has seen The Doctor give eveything for his fans and as is now tradition a signature helmet that becomes a story in it's own right 

Hi to everybody, so we're here to speak about special helmet for Mugello for the Italian Grand Prix. and then is a long long time, we have this idea together with Aldo Drudi is the man usually design all my racing helmet. And for make something special for all the Italian GP and Mugello also one of the greatest and the funiest weekend during the season, because the atmosphere is fantastic and lot of fun and the track is great, so for all the reason we started design special helmet for the Italian GP. but from 2002 we star more serious of special helmet, always thinking and make together with Aldo.

And I take some helmet for show some of the good helmets and this is one of helmet from 2002 when I'm racing with honda and this is old desinged from Graziano my father and Aldo also started his carrier to design this helmet with my father and its worked first time with my father from  1979 when its borned. With the Italian flag here with special design and bring some lucky and take a victory and its so have great memory, you know because it was the most important helmet for Graziano and some racing on 250

Another one for 2007 with the big heart in front because it was difficult season but I still have lot of fans that coming in Mugello so this is a signed for all this guys to give the heart more than the normal in the race Grand Prix and also this helmet was very lucky because we got victory and it's one of my favorite. Because the big heart is very great and in fact I throw the helmet to the crowd after the podium because it was my gift for all their support in Mugello. We always have the Italian flag, always my dog behind that, very clasic helmet.

And after,  I bring for you my favorite from 2008 version  with  the Yamaha. One of the night before started, the time was quite finished. we have the idea to put my face, because this is my face when go down to the casanova and it was very fast so this is my face. It's my favorite helmet because it was very funny and I think all the MotoGP fans will remember with this helmet and like always we have the big Italian flag, we have the 46 with the Italian flag and with my dog who like fly on the sky and also this helmet bring lucky because we have a great victory

So we have together still thinking in the last moment a good idea with Aldo for the 2012 version and you will follow all the work for create the new version and so see you there, see you in Mugello and we will give you the new design as soon as possible. Ciao...

And here the video link from Monster Energy :  Valentino Rossi and the story of Mugello: part.1 Valentino's iconic helmets

Valentino Rossi shared his favourite helmets from the past ten years. Now it's time for the real thing. This is a close as it's ever going to get to seeing the Mugello helmet before Valentino Rossi unveils it on Saturday morning

First Aldo Drudi drawing the design on the paper, seriously and full of consentration. And he brush the helmet with the logo of Monster Energy on the left side. And after that Valentino Rossi and Aldo in the serious discusion about what he want and what the next idea while they look the half design of the helmet with big yellow 46 on the back of the helmet. And he put some beautiful flowers on the top of the helmet with some Italian words "Fatti mandere dalla mamma" ahh actually I can't read clearly for the last word me wrote in yellow color, so we need to wait part 3 and it will be very interesting...really curious.

Again the link from Monster Energy video : Valentino Rossi and the story of Mugello : Part 2 Valentino's iconic helmet

If I missed something about what he said, feel free to let me know, I would be  very grateful and happy to edit. Thanks

Market Riders MotoGP for HRC Team was Closed at Mugello 2012

Finally on Thursday, July 12 2012 Honda Racing Team officially announced they have Dani Pedrosa and Marc Marquez for the next two years in MotoGP Championship.

pic by @birtymotogp

Not surprising at all, since Casey Stoner gave his decision to retire for 2013 and Dorna change the Rookie rule we all already knew that the new rule be prepared for the rider with number 93 from Moto2. And for Dani Pedrosa, although he doesn't get his World Champion title yet since he joining on this team from 2006 but his performance was good with this team, he has been runner up twice on his debut on MotoGP. The one thing delay him to be World Champion was about a bit missed of luck due the injury or something made him not be able to ride a 100%. But surely this renew contract will make him more confident to ride his bike on this season and reach the dream to be World Champion in 2012. The lucky one of course Marc Marquez, we all knew he is really fast on every race he did on 125 cc and Moto2.

pic from @Valeyellow46

We all like to watch him on Moto2 race that always interesting and lot of people said he will be the next Valentino Rossi. And it must be great opportunity for him to be able to ride on class of the Kings but maybe will be difficult for him to adapt with the bike which obviously different with his bike right now. But all thing can be learned so no need to worry about.

That's mean only three seats left for Factory bike. The two seats empty in Ducati Team and  one left in Yamaha Team. Still big question who will be team mate for Jorge Lorenzo in next two years, could be Ben Spies, Andrea Dovizioso, Cal Crutchlow if he doesn't sign offer from Ducati or maybe Valentino Rossi, even we know he looks like will stay to continue developing Ducati bike after positive meeting with Audi and positive progress of the bike in Sachsenring. And we still waiting who will be the next riders for Ducati Team, the same one with this year are Valentino Rossi and Nicky Hayden or will be changed ?

We never know until they announce it and anything could be possible, when Valentino Rossi hasn't taken any decision for next two year the market of riders in MotoGP still be big topic all people will wait, because he's the magnet on this Championship.

Valentino Rossi Inspiring Roger Federer

Swiss Tennis player Roger Federer after won seventh Wimbeldon tittle after beating Andy Murray in London. Roger Federer has been playing the games very great and he can won with score 4-6, 7-5, 6-3 and 6-4.

He said he got lot of inspiration from the other great athletes in other sport to motivating him self and always working hard in every games he played.

He so adore and said thanks to Tiger Wood who texted him and gave support to him, just like he said on tennis.com : 

“He (Tiger Wood) was very pumped up for me, he was very supportive. It’s nice when other greats believe in me. They push me further, even in the rain delay basically when they cheer you on. So it was big. I wish him the best as well.”

And the great athletes who giving him some inspiration is also The great Tennis Players who also won Wimbeldon Seven times are Pete Sampras and Stefan Edberg. He also so inspired by Boris Becker, Michael Jordan And the last but not least, he mentioned the greates sport man on Motorcycle sport who got nine time World Champion Valentino Rossi.

Roger said : "They all teaching him to keep on pushing further. Not just being happy with world No. 1 or being happy with a Grand Slam title, but maybe to reach for more. Then obviously I have to drive myself. But you sometimes do need to see someone else do it for a long time so that you feel it is actually possible.”

So Happy and proud to knew the best Tennis player in history Roger Federer has a same idol with us Valentino Rossi who always give the names of spirit never give up,  just like Valentino Rossi  said : 

"When it's difficult like this, the taste of winning is better".

And yes, I agreed in every dark in the night we will find the light shining in the morning. Nothing impossible all thing is possible as long we believe and never stop to try and pray


Congratulation for Roger Federer and keep pushing hard until the limit.

Difficult Weekend for Valentino Rossi at Silverstone MotoGP 2012

The bad luck happened to the British rider Cal Crutchlow who crashed on FP3 and made him can’t allow following Qualifying, but as we know he’s young and have lot of spirit on his home race. With his injured (broken ankle) on Sunday he follow the warming up practice and follow the race even he must  started the race from very back row 20^th . He clearly show to us what we called passion and patient, with his satellite bike Yamaha Tech 3 he short the gap very impressive. 

Only need 2 laps for made him passed 9 of CRT bike and post him on 11^th very near with Valentino Rossi who stuck on 10^th place and not need too long for him clear Valentino Rossi for 10^th. 11 laps he need to took place on 7^th from Hector Barbera and Stefan Bradl, really great stuff he did when we look where he start and his condition, and the last lap he has taken 6^th from Nicky Hayden (even the Ducati bike not good yet but it’s still prototype bike). What a race? Really heroic race by Cal Crutchlow and for sure not only British fans proud with what he did but all MotoGP fans. Standing applause for him who 4^th position for World Standing Championship after round six in Silverstone.

Jorge Lorenzo just did Hattrick after won three time of 3 series of MotoGP and he just shown to us he was right to signed contract more earlier with Yamaha, because for this season this bike is so perfect with the engine and the new tire, made him able to passed Casey Stoner who still struggling with the bike and the new tire and force him to only has 2^nd place on this race and Dani Pedrosa on the 3^rd podium.

Another great rider on British GP was Alvaro Bautista, after so great take his first pole position, he just did a great finished on 4^th place really near with podium and like he said “he could be able to force to get 3^rd place but its too risky for him so he decided to keep patient and run with them on the front row”. Really great move from him to have battle with factory.

VR crashed on QP

After very strong and be the fastest on Free Practice 1 and made all his fans face the British GP with smile on their face, the cloudy come again after look Valentino Rossi struggling a lot on the rest of Practice and the worst thing just happened when he was crashed on Qualifying Practice. And it’s really fast crashed and made his bike damage. Of course it was difficult to the team to fix the first bike and force Valentino Rossi only rides the Qualifying with his second bike. 

NH crashed in the same corner with VR

Like we know 1^st bike he has still not competitive yet even bit better and we can imagine what he will get with his 2^nd bike, So start from 10^th place which is row 4 for British GP he need to took even its really not what the team think.

And the hard situation on QP not only came from valentine Rossi but his team mate Nicky Hayden has the same trouble, the American rider crashed in the same corner as Valentino with the same style to crashed but lucky for Nicky he already took 7th place to start the race.

For Valentino Rossi the first he announced for Silverstone race is “Difficult weekend” and his commented for this track was “the most difficult track”. Of course it was so hard for him. We all think he can’t able to ride well on British GP because he was wrong to choice the harder Bridgestone rear tire, cause only him wear those type but in press conference after race he was said “Our decision to used the hard rear tire absolutely not the reason why us so difficult at the race because if we use soft it would have been more worse, since the left side wouldn’t have lasted. At least with the hard I could get past Barbera."

So the answer from The rider what the main reason he struggling a lot was "we can’t get enough front end grip and honestly we don’t know why and we don’t know how to resolve the problem, if we could do that, we would immediately lot faster. And for this race Nicky Hayden show to us the real performance potential of Ducati but anyway both of us still very far from the leader. We have to work, we have to improve our pace and hope at the next round at Assen we could be better”

After crashed, he still gave wave to all fans

Can’t imagine, if the rider who got all this not Valentino Rossi. Maybe the team condition so dark and sad, but Valentino Rossi can handle it with his passion and his charisma. He still treat his fans very well in every race, wave to all fans even he crashed on QP yesterday, give smile with camera on TV to said to all fans around the world Its difficult time but with smile and togetherness all will be easy to face and try to find solution.

Incredible of Valentino Rossi. When all people so confusing where he will ride for next year, after lot of issued blow on the paddock about Dorna will change the Rule of Rookie to make Marc Marquez can joint immediately to Factory bike and many more. But Valentino Rossi still calm and said “For this time I only focus to being competitive at Ducati, maybe at Laguna Seca we will talk about it and two races after at Brno we will announce it about what decision we will take for next year”.

We love Valentino Rossi and the one made us mad in love with him is because his spirit. Spirit to face the uncertainty of the future, with confident, optimistic and not give up but still realistic. Always continue to try again and again with a different way and believe all problems have a way to solve it. Because the real journey of life will never be found before we pass it. Go Valentino Rossi, whatever you will for next year we’re still here to support you.

Jorge Lorenzo Stay "Blue" with Yamaha Factory For Next Two Years

Casey Stoner's retirement is leaving a hot market of riders for next year. Lots of question came about who will take the seat of Casey Stoner on Repsol Honda Team, the strong factory team in 2011. Speculation said Jorge Lorenzo will take the seat on Honda, Valentino Rossi will back to Yamaha, and so many predictions came for it.

Nevertheless, today on June 12 2012, early decision came from the World Champion 2010 Jorge Lorenzo with his official announcement to stay blue with Yamaha for next two years. What is good of his early decision is he can concentrate for fighting another World Championship on this season, and as we knew he was on 1^st place on world standing after winning at Catalunya race follow by Casey Stoner. Other thing where his dream to end his career with Yamaha closer with reality. 

Here what he said after signed contract for 2013 – 2014 with Yamaha (motogp.com) : "I am extremely happy to have signed with Yamaha for two more years. They've made great efforts to retain me in the factory team so I want to thank all those involved at Yamaha for this. I've been treated like part of the Yamaha family since 2008 and I love working with them. It has always been my first option to stay here and so I'm happy that this important negotiation has finished with such a positive outcome. Now I can focus on the Championship and I'm looking forward to paying back Yamaha's trust in me starting at Silverstone this weekend. I look forward to winning many more Championships together; my dream to finish my career with Yamaha is now closer to becoming a reality!"

Now the Big question for this season is: Who will be the riders for Honda Racing team and who will sign contract for 2^nd rider in Yamaha? Dovizioso has big opportunity to be the rider of Yamaha factory due with his result for last two races of this season and the good result on Catalunya test. However, we can’t forget the good performance came from  Cal Crutchlow, who always giving us a great battle in every race for seating on Yamaha Factory. And for Honda Factory not sure enough after what Nakamoto has said “Valentino Rossi Not to the factory team, but he can ask satellite”

In my view I don’t see what the reason he talked like that after what Valentino Rossi did for their team before, but actually as long as no official announcement everything could be happened, as with what Valentino Rossi has, not to be worried for anything, because only he the one rider has complete package.

Another Smile of Valentino Rossi from Catalunya MotoGP 2012

Catalunya was new hope for Ducati in dry track. After positive test on Le Mans with Aluminum swing arm and new engine, the first hope from Ducati team is able to going well in the dry race.

But what the team thinks after the result of the test unfortunately went different with what happened on MotoGP Catalunya practice and Qualifying Practice.

Valentino Rossi just able started Catalunya race from 9^th place and his team mate Nicky Hayden was started from 7^th. Again it was not the team hope on the paper, but they all race on the track not on the paper, so it’s the reality happened.

The six round of MotoGP this year less of battle  for front place after HRC with Dani Pedrosa has a problem with the bike and the tyre,and at 10 laps remaining  Jorge Lorenzo can passed him and take a lead and be champion in Catalunya. And Dani Pedrosa only finished for 2^nd place, of course it was podium for him but he’s not happy enough with the result he got there. Because what he expected was the highest podium.

And for the first time of this year we didn’t see Casey Stoner on front because he was struggling with the bike, and the tyre he has chosen didn’t work well like it must be, and made him on the middle of Yamaha Tech 3 for finished on 4^th place after failing to pass Andrea Dovizioso who was very happy at his first podium of the year for 3^rd position. And the British rider Cal Crutchlow who strongly enough this season with his bike was able to finished on 5^th.

For  our hero who still can’t found his way on dry track, still can’t tame his bike, but we knew Valentino Rossi is Valentino Rossi, wherever he start the race his spirit always same, fighting with what he has. That’s the different he with the others. Just like we knew he did 100% and no complaining. Try this and that for make the bike stable and easy to ride not only for him.

At Catalunya he finished on 7^th place, yes it was only 7^th but at least he getting improve after started on 9^th. He trying so hard to catch up Alvaro Bautista for 6^th position, but seems he lost the rear tyre so the bike can’t run more. Like we knew he is so realistic with this situation and he said congratulation to Alvaro Bautista for 6^th place.

Lot of fans worried with his performance but Valentino Rossi said some positive thing he can found on Catalunya, it’s the potential of Ducati on dry, quite close from the front row and he will see for Silverstone circuit what the bike can bring for him and team. 

Before the Round 7^th of MotoGP at Silverstone Valentino Rossi have two tests again he did with the team. First test after Catalunya race is on Catalunya and the team trying again with his swing arm but that’s what we need from test, Valentino Rossi said the swing arm help him on acceleration, but it triggers too much chatter, as opposed to during the Mugello test, where it proved to be advantageous. 

But he will not stop to try for 2^nd test on Aragon he will keep trying it and finding what will happen. For Catalunya test the fastest was Andrea Dovizioso but too bad for Repsol Honda Team, they were not happy with the test. And also they decided to skip Aragon test after disappointed with Bridgestone who can’t supply front tyre they wanna try there and they both not too happy with the new rule about implement a new front compound starting June 15-17 at Silverstone.

The Aragon test on June 6^th 2012 made Yamaha Racing Team happy with the result he got, both of rider Jorge Lorenzo and Ben Spies finished for 1^st and 2^nd position. Valentino Rossi who only finished the Aragon test for 8^th keep put his smile on his face because he said “since we found something positive, we can say that it was a good test."

For me we never know what will happen, just like Valentino Rossi did, to ride on Ducati bike it was the difficult thing he did on his career but as long he has spirit to get some improve, he still face it with smile and happiness. So proud to be his fans and thank you to keep us proud. We Love you hero

Fastest the movie on DVD, Appreciate it Mark Neale

These has been quite long after the Fastest movie was released at the end of September 2011 in Europe. And at the time me who live in Indonesia only able to watch trailer on the Internet. No chance to watch in the cinema like all on there because in my country this movie not released on the cinema.

In January 2012, I got my first contact with Mark Neale on one of social media, he was very kind person after reading my blog he sent me message and said "want to send me a small gift". I'm very happy with it, but after waiting for so long, month by month nothing come to my address. But doesn't  make me sad because I know for sure how busy him he is being film director and as we know he has done many great documentary movies, some of his movies as Faster (2003),  The Doctor, the Tornado and the Kentucky Kid (2006), Charge, Zero Emissions / maximum speed (2011).

And today June 8th 2012, Mr. Postman has knocked my door and brought one envelope from California. It's really amazing for me, I got the FASTEST dvd movie directly  from Mark Neale complete with his autograph on the cover. He can said to me "it was the small gift" but for me " it was a great gift I never imagine before".

Really Appreciate to Mark Neale and like always you said wit me "ALL THE BEST". Thank you very much I watched the movie and nothing I can say then "Brilliant Movie, by Brilliant Director, featuring Brilliant Riders"