Few days ago, Gavin Emmett did an interview to Valentino Rossi. And the questions are from Yellow Army around the world that posted online. Here some interest Q & A between Gavin Emmett and Valentino Rossi

Gavin Emmett (GE): What about the Casey Stoner's retirement?

Valentino Rossi (VR): I heard the rumor in the last few day, but I think he will continue until next season. But after Stoner's explanation on the MotoGP press conference, it's a shock for everybody, we lose a great rider. 

GE: What is your opinion about CRT?

VR: We need 25 bikes in MotoGP, but in this period we need to race with less expensive bike. Nobody are very happy. For the rider, it was a step back, but it's for the race now.

GE: Can you win this year?

VR: Championshop or Race? (Laugh). We will try, but I think it will be very hard, because we are to far, especially with the 3 guys that flying and very fast. At this moment, we try to think step by step. In Portugal we did better, and for next we'll try to 6th, 5th, and 4th

GE: What about your retirement?

VR: It's something unbelievable. I don't want retire, I want to race as more as possible , because this is my life. For me it's a great great passion. I'm 33 now, but I still want to continue on MotoGP at least for next 2 years.

GE: If you had one wish, what would it be ?

VR: I want to win championship with Ducati

A question from 8 years old Mini Moto rider

GE: How to be a MotoGP rider?

VR: Mini Moto is the right way, just put maximum effort and passion, and it's not impossible

GE: Are you follow Moto3?

VR: I follow Moto3, because my youngest brother is ride on Italian Moto3. He's 14 years old, and he'll be arrive on Moto3 World Championship

GE: If there is one rider in the history you want to race again, who he would it be?

VR: Kevin Schwantz. Because the battle between me and Kevin is very funny and interesting. 

GE: Will you rather be a penguin or flying fish?

VR: Flying fish

GE: What is your fitness receipt?

VR: I training everyday, I go to the gym, I run, I'll try to stay as more as possible on motorcycle or something other with engine like gokart or motocross bike. But for my body, just normal training,

GE: Now you are 33. is it different with your youngers year?

VR: It's different, I have to do more. Now it's more difficult

GE: If you could play any band, what music and instrument will you play?

VR: Guitar, from Pink Floyd or AC DC. Or drum

GE: What is your favourite pizza topping and ice cream

VR: I always eat mozzarella. In our place, we always eat pizza with mayonnaise. I like vanila ice cream and smurf flavour ice cream

GE: Who will be your Italian successor from Moto2 or Moto3

VR: Antonelli and Fenati on Moto3, Iannone on Moto2

GE: What is your favourite design helmet ever?

VR: Mugelo 2008, helmet with face

GE: What is your school teacher said about you?

VR: He's clever, but he didn't study

GE: What is your favourite memory about Marco Simoncelli

VR: I have a lot memory especially when we train together. 

GE: Are you do something inside your helmet when you race?

VR: Yes of course. Especially when i make mistake (argh!), or (laugh) when pass someone on great battle, because I enjoy it!

GE: Why you choose yellow?

VR: When I ride in 96, I spoke to a man who made my helmet. He told to put the sun on your helmet. From that moment, we decided for yellow, because it's the color of the sun

GE: Do you collect your memorable racing stuff?

VR: Yes, I have a room for my big collection of my career. I have a lot of my helmet there.

GE: If you're on retirement, will you open a riding School?

VR: Yes it is possible because now we have a track for the younger rider. Like the Colin's boot camp.

GE: Do you feel like you want to pee when you race.

VR: Yes, a lot of time especially on start.

GE: Why you like British Bulldog than Chihuahua?

VR: Because of it's characte, very quite, relax, doesn't have a power to go around, and very brave.

GE: Is there any dream that you still want to achieve?

VR: My dream when I was young was become a world champion. But now I want to continue to other season

Few days ago, Gavin Emmett did an interview to Valentino Rossi. And the questions are from Yellow Army around the world that posted online. Here some interest Q & A between Gavin Emmett and Valentino Rossi

Gavin Emmett (GE): What about the Casey Stoner's retirement?

Valentino Rossi (VR): I heard the rumor in the last few day, but I think he will continue until next season. But after Stoner's explanation on the MotoGP press conference, it's a shock for everybody, we lose a great rider. 

GE: What is your opinion about CRT?

VR: We need 25 bikes in MotoGP, but in this period we need to race with less expensive bike. Nobody are very happy. For the rider, it was a step back, but it's for the race now.

GE: Can you win this year?

VR: Championshop or Race? (Laugh). We will try, but I think it will be very hard, because we are to far, especially with the 3 guys that flying and very fast. At this moment, we try to think step by step. In Portugal we did better, and for next we'll try to 6th, 5th, and 4th

GE: What about your retirement?

VR: It's something unbelievable. I don't want retire, I want to race as more as possible , because this is my life. For me it's a great great passion. I'm 33 now, but I still want to continue on MotoGP at least for next 2 years.

GE: If you had one wish, what would it be ?

VR: I want to win championship with Ducati

A question from 8 years old Mini Moto rider

GE: How to be a MotoGP rider?

VR: Mini Moto is the right way, just put maximum effort and passion, and it's not impossible

GE: Are you follow Moto3?

VR: I follow Moto3, because my youngest brother is ride on Italian Moto3. He's 14 years old, and he'll be arrive on Moto3 World Championship

GE: If there is one rider in the history you want to race again, who he would it be?

VR: Kevin Schwantz. Because the battle between me and Kevin is very funny and interesting. 

GE: Will you rather be a penguin or flying fish?

VR: Flying fish

GE: What is your fitness receipt?

VR: I training everyday, I go to the gym, I run, I'll try to stay as more as possible on motorcycle or something other with engine like gokart or motocross bike. But for my body, just normal training,

GE: Now you are 33. is it different with your youngers year?

VR: It's different, I have to do more. Now it's more difficult

GE: If you could play any band, what music and instrument will you play?

VR: Guitar, from Pink Floyd or AC DC. Or drum

GE: What is your favourite pizza topping and ice cream

VR: I always eat mozzarella. In our place, we always eat pizza with mayonnaise. I like vanila ice cream and smurf flavour ice cream

GE: Who will be your Italian successor from Moto2 or Moto3

VR: Antonelli and Fenati on Moto3, Iannone on Moto2

GE: What is your favourite design helmet ever?

VR: Mugelo 2008, helmet with face

GE: What is your school teacher said about you?

VR: He's clever, but he didn't study

GE: What is your favourite memory about Marco Simoncelli

VR: I have a lot memory especially when we train together. 

GE: Are you do something inside your helmet when you race?

VR: Yes of course. Especially when i make mistake (argh!), or (laugh) when pass someone on great battle, because I enjoy it!

GE: Why you choose yellow?

VR: When I ride in 96, I spoke to a man who made my helmet. He told to put the sun on your helmet. From that moment, we decided for yellow, because it's the color of the sun

GE: Do you collect your memorable racing stuff?

VR: Yes, I have a room for my big collection of my career. I have a lot of my helmet there.

GE: If you're on retirement, will you open a riding School?

VR: Yes it is possible because now we have a track for the younger rider. Like the Colin's boot camp.

GE: Do you feel like you want to pee when you race.

VR: Yes, a lot of time especially on start.

GE: Why you like British Bulldog than Chihuahua?

VR: Because of it's characte, very quite, relax, doesn't have a power to go around, and very brave.

GE: Is there any dream that you still want to achieve?

VR: My dream when I was young was become a world champion. But now I want to continue to other season

The Power Electronics Aspar Team head into the fourth round of the MotoGP World Championship this weekend as the leading CRT team with Aleix Espargaró and Randy de Puniet at the head of the new class in the rider standings.

Randy de Puniet is aiming to break to his duck and finish as top CRT bike in a race, and believes his home Grand Prix is the setting to do so. Even though he is not yet fully recovered from the injuries sustained in a practice crash that also involved NGM Mobile Forward Racing’s Colin Edwards, de Puniet's condition has improved in the two weeks since racing in Portugal.

De Puniet finished on the podium four times here in the 250cc class between 2002 and 2005 and he is sure to give 120% once again in front of the vociferous home crowd. Espargaró finished sixth here in the Moto2 last year and once ninth in MotoGP.

Randy de Puniet

"I was hoping to be feeling better by now but I am still suffering from the crash at Estoril. My back and ribs are still very painful but hopefully I can make some improvements over the next couple of days. Le Mans is a circuit I always enjoy going to because I have thousands of fans there and it has some great corners, like turn one."

Aleix Espargaró

"Le Mans has a lot of tight corners and personally I prefer fast tracks but I am currently the top CRT rider in the championship and I want to leave this race in the same position before we go to my home Grand Prix in Catalunya."

Having encountered at least one day of rain during every winter test and in every race so far except for Qatar, the two Ducati Team riders hope for a weekend with stable weather conditions at Le Mans as they continue working on the setup of the GP12.

Friday will find Valentino Rossi back on the track where he finished on the podium last year, and with the Portuguese post-race test having been cancelled due to bad weather, he’ll start with the settings he used at Estoril race, with the goal of improving upon his seventh-place finish there.

Nicky Hayden also hopes to do better than in Portugal, and although he doesn’t count the French circuit among his favourites, he thinks some of its characteristics could be a good match for his Ducati.

Vittoriano Guareschi, Team Manager

“Le Mans is a bit strange, a classic stop-and-go track that’s very different from Estoril. This will give us an opportunity to check the work that we’re doing on the GP12’s setup: Valentino used it all weekend at the last GP, so we’ll continue like that in an effort to also make progress at Le Mans, where he had a really nice race last year. Though this isn’t one of Nicky’s preferred circuits, he’ll also use the experience he has gathered while using this setup on the GP12 since the start of the championship.”

Ducati Team Press Release

Casey Stoner just announced his retirement on the Le Mans press confereces today. This Australian rider was told that there were much time has been sacrificed on race, especially MotoGP, now its time to stop as the passion is lost. 

Casey Stoner:

"Over the years there have been things in the sport that have disappointed but also things I've loved. now the balance has tipped" said Stoner. This has been coming for a couple of years now but at the end of this 2012 season I will be not racing in the 2013 Championship. I will be finishing my career at the end of this season in MotoGP, and go forward in different things in my life. It has changed a lot and to the point where I am not enjoying it. I don't have the passion for it and so it's better if I retire now"

It would be nice if I could say I would stay one more year, but then where does it stop? So we decided to finish everything as we are now

This 2012 will be the last season for Stoner. Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo told that Stoner's retirement is a big loss for MotoGP