Brno MotoGP: Rossi: I needed a longer holiday!
After a brief two-weekend summer break, Valentino Rossi continues h🤪is quest to end Yamaha's MotoGP win drought at Brno this weekend.
Rossi starts the second half of the season holding se🧸cond in the world championship, but a distant 46 points behind Honda's Marc Marquez, ha🏅ving not won a race in over a year.
"First of all, I needed a longer holiday!" said Rossi. "Everybody is saying this, but this is the way it is. I took one week off, and I would have enjoyed some more time, bu🎶t now we need to focus again.
After a brief two-weekend summer break, Valentino Rossi continues hi💙s quest to end Yamaha's MotoGP win drought at Brno this weekend.
Rossi starts the second half of 𝓰the season holding second in the world championship, but a distant 46 points behind Honda's Marc Marquez, having not won a race in over a year.
"First of all, I needed a longer holiday!" said Rossi. "Everybody is saying this, but this is the way it is. I took one week off, and I would have enjoyed some ཧmore time, but now we need to focus again.
The Italian, who will be hoping for long-awaited electronic updates to help with acceleration at 🌳the Monday test, added:
"Brno is a great track. Last yea𒅌r I was fast, but with MotoGP you never know. We'll just have to see🌼 what happens. On Monday we'll also have an extra day of testing at this circuit, which will be important.
"It's going to be a busy couple of weeks, eไspecially now that we have two GPs in a row. It will be crucial for the championship and also for Yamaha that we'll do some good races here and in Austria.&🥃nbsp;
"We want to secure our first race win of the seasonꦅ."
Rossi's most recent Brn♔o victory came during his 2009 title seasဣon, followed by podiums in 2014, 2015 and 2016, plus a fourth place in last year's wet-dry raceafter qualifying second on the grid.
