Valentino Rossi yellow-gray T-Shirt

Valentino Rossi long sleeved T-Shirt, manufactured from cotton, and uses a contrast yellow and grey panel design, with Rossi name and number 46 stitched on the chest using separate pieces of fabric.
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Valentino Rossi Honda NSR500 2000

Valentino Rossi's 2000 Honda NSR500. 2000 was Rossi's very first year in the top class, which was then called 500cc instead of MotoGP. This model from Minichamps will be delayed until early 2007.
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2007-06-09  Rider thoughts after Montmelo qualifying
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Valentino Rossi once again broken track record to take antoher pole position at one of his favourite tracks, hoping to transform it to another victory tomorrow. However, there will be though competition with other title rivals, that are also on good pace for Spanish grand prix. Read their thoughts after MotoGP qualifying session. Valentino Rossi - pole position: I'm really happy to have another pole position, this season our bike is working brilliantly with our Michelin qualifying tyres and at every race I have great fun during qualifying! Along with Mugello this is one of my favourite tracks and really I find it hard to decide which I like best! It's fun to have two great races together like this even if it's hard work without a rest in between. As usual it's going to be very important to start from the front tomorrow, but I think it's going to be a really hard battle anyway, especially in this heat. Pedrosa and Stoner look very strong and also Hopkins has a good pace, so I think we can expect a great fight for the fans to watch! Anyway we're starting in the best position, my M1 feels very good and we will be looking for another victory. Randy de Puniet - 2nd: It is a great feeling to be on the front row! Yesterday we struggled a little bit, but my crew did a great job in the evening and this morning, which paid off already this morning with second position in the third free practice. We worked on the suspension set up and the chassis as well as making some adjustments in the mapping and we solved yesterday’s problem with the rear grip. This morning I tried as well a harder rear tyre option and, even though its performance dropped after a few laps, I am confident to use it for the race. My knee was really painful and we decided to delay my qualifying practice start for about 15 minutes. I went out first with the race tyre option to confirm it and then I tried the first qualifying tyre. I did a great effort with it and pushed as much as I could. I knew that physically I wouldn’t have many chances to get the most of the three sets, as it was. I am exhausted right now because in qualifying you need to give it all in just one lap. My main problem is to have to stop and go and not when I am riding. Tomorrow’s race is going to be hard but I am sure that after a couple of laps, when I will get the rhythm, everything is going to be fine. Dani Pedrosa - 3rd: I’m happy because it’s been quite a long time since I’ve been on the front row so it’s nice to be back. There are quite a few riders with a good pace from practice though and this means the race could be very close and difficult. Also it looks as though it’s going to be very hot which will make it difficult for the tyres and also the riders. I’m enjoying being at my home Grand Prix with so many supporters and I’m happy to be starting on the front row because this could prove to be important. Casey Stoner - 4th: This morning we did pretty much full distance on race tyres with no real dramas. We're really happy but we haven't got enough quantity of that tyre, so we just threw on some other ones for this afternoon's session and we still managed to go pretty quick, quicker than everybody else on race tyres. We're happy enough with that and I think we're just going to leave the settings as they are for tomorrow, it's looking good. The tyres we've chosen, the hotter the weather the better they work, so this afternoon they probably would've worked better again. This morning we definitely found a bit more grip, which is helping a lot in the long corners, we just balanced out the bike some more, so it's not too much on the front or too much on the rear. My qualifying runs were a little disappointing, I thought we could've done a little better but the way we've got the bike set up at the moment it works better with race tyres. Anyway, we're still not too far off and we're on the second row again. John Hopkins - 5th: We certainly ran into a few issues during the qualifying session! We had a little mechanical problem with my first bike and I wasn’t able to get it back to the garage, so I had to come back and get on my spare bike. It just goes to show how good the Suzuki is working this year, because the spare bike is almost identical to what we have as the A-bike. We then went back out and I got into a quick rhythm straight away. On my first run on the qualifiers I had a bit of a problem with another rider going too slowly on the racing line, so I came in before finishing that lap. On the last qualifying tyre I managed to get where I wanted to be – on one of the front two rows. It’s going to be a long, hot race tomorrow, but the bike and the Bridgestone tyres are working well and we’re 100% ready to go racing! Colin Edwards - 6th: Once again things felt pretty good on the qualifying tyres, although I didn't make the most of my first one so I had to rely on improving things second time around. My lap time was actually pretty good but everyone else was fast today too! Anyway, after the disaster of last week I'm happy enough with the second row! As for our race pace, we've made a few improvements but honestly we have three different types of tyres and I'm doing the same time on all of them - which is unfortunately a little off the pace. I think tomorrow morning we're going to try something we tried briefly yesterday with regards to tyres, it was the same then but we've made some improvements to the bike since and we think that it might work. Anyway, here's hoping! Nicky Hayden - 7th: I was definitely hoping to be on the front two rows today and I just missed out on that. It’s still not as close to the front as we’d like and there haven’t been any big steps forward but we’ve definitely made some progress in a few areas for this track. Tyre choice is going to be really critical so we’ll be looking at that tonight. I know it’s going to be a big job tomorrow and I’ll have to eat my Wheeties! Toni Elias - 8th: I’m happy with my race pace and confident about tomorrow. I’m disappointed to be on the third row and I’ll have to get a good start. But we’ve had two good days of practice working on the race setting. Tomorrow will be a tough fight but I’m ready for it. This is my home race so I wanted to celebrate that with this special livery inspired by Gaudi. I love his mosaics and colour schemes – because they represent Barcelona. Marco Melandri - 9th: We’re moving forward. This morning we ran a couple of comparative tests and in the afternoon I only ran the modified chassis that we tried for the first time at Le Mans. The race pace is quite good and after all the problems we’ve had this weekend I’m quite happy with the third row. Tomorrow I'll just try and get a good start and fight for a top result. Alex Hofmann - 10th: Today was very difficult for me, but at the end it felt really good; the tenth position is a favourable position from which to make a good race start. During both the morning and the afternoon sessions, we had some technical difficulties and my bike did not work so well. As a result, we lost a lot of important time and I was a bit anxious, especially when I have to come back to the box during the qualifying hour to change by bike. This process took about half and hour and I was not confident in obtaining a good result. Thankfully, the bike felt immediately good in race trim and I had a good feeling with it. I am confident for tomorrow and I hope for a competitive race. Chris Vermeulen - 11th: It’s not ideal starting from the fourth row tomorrow, and that is not where I want to be! I was comfortable early on with the race tyres and we did a good run - the durability and consistency was definitely there. When we put the qualifier in we didn’t quite get the grip from the front of the bike that we were after. We will be trying something with the front in tomorrow’s warm-up to help out a bit in that area. I know I can run with the leading group and I will try to get up there from the start and who knows what will happen then! Shinya Nakano - 12th: With the tyres we’ve tested and the setting changes we’ve made the bike felt a little bit better today which is just what we were looking for. The problem we’ve had, with both chatter from the front-end of the bike and the actual getting the bike to turn itself has improved. The conditions were hot again today, but I’m pleased that I was able to improve my lap time and we’ve picked what I think is a good combination of race tyres for tomorrow. Alex Barros - 14th: Today I’m not really satisfied and unfortunately things did not work in the right direction. We worked a lot to find the best possible solution, but our final result wasn’t as good as we had wished. My big difficulty is with the rear, I haven’t enough traction and when I turn I lost too much speed. To try to resolve these difficulties, we made a lot of set-up changes, but as happened yesterday, we found only a partial solution. In order to work on this problem fully, we were not able to use the qualifying session properly because we used qualifying tyres only for the last lap. Perhaps if I could have had some more time, I could have improved my lap time; but today our main focus was to resolve my difficulties with the race set-up, something we have to continue tomorrow morning. Carlos Checa - 15th: This morning in free practice I had some confidence that our set-up was improving but with the qualifying tyre it was impossible to do better than this. We have changed everything on the set-up, but when I flick the bike it doesn’t want to turn, the front goes one way and the rear the other, the balance is wrong. I’m still too far from the race pace so hopefully we can find some solutions for tomorrow. Loris Capirossi - 17th: Clearly, this is the worse Saturday I've had so far. When I went out with my first qualifier I had a technical glitch with the bike I had been using all weekend, so I had to get back to the garage on a scooter. On my next run aboard my number-two bike, my best lap was ruined by Barros, who was going very slowly in the middle on the track. That was very disappointing but, okay, that kind of thing can happen when there are a lot of riders on track. I had a third qualifying tyre available but it was a new tyre that we'd never tried and it didn't work to my satisfaction. So today was very disappointing indeed, especially because we aren't so bad in race trim. Maybe I wasn't the fastest out there but I am not that bad. So I am starting from the very, very back of the grid which means I will have to fight hard. At least there are many passing points at this track and I should be able to ride a reasonable rhythm. We will see what happens, I hope to do much better than today and bring home some good points. Kenny Roberts - 18th: As far as the qualifiers go, with the first one I got just a bad feeling from the front right out of the pits and felt like I wasn’t able to put any pressure on it. So when I came in, Warren put more physical weight on the front and it felt fine for the second run. Kurtis Roberts - 19th You’ve got to look at everything in comparison. It's not like we’re that far off. Kenny thought there might be a problem when I went to qualifiers, but there’s nothing we could do about it. I think it’s all heading in the right direction.

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