Valentino during the pre event presser at Qatar, 2004
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Valentino during the pre event presser at Qatar, 2004
Vale: Brivio comes to me and says "They're gonna make us start from the last row." The last row? Are you joking? Gibernau and I have always had a good relationship because I like him as a person; we've always been pretty good friends. In Qatar, he betrayed me and played dirty—he and his chief mechanic, who used to work with me the year before. Narrator: Gibernau starts from the front row, Rossi from the last: between them, there are 18 riders. Vale: When I started the race I only wanted one thing: to catch Gibernau, that was some crazy goal ... cause he started from pole position and I had some difficulties ... and I was starting from the back ... but I didn't care about anything else ... I wanted to catch Gibernau Narrator: The race starts. Valentino starts his comeback with so much fury that he overtakes riders using both "good manners" and "bad manners." After four laps, there are only four bikes between Valentino and Gibernau. But just as the hunter starts smelling his prey, Valentino loses control of the bike and ends up in the gravel. Vale: I put both tyres on the grass and I fell, it was a very hard fall, I was going more than 200 km/h, I crushed my pinky finger once again and he (Gibernau) won the race Narrator: It's a crash that's painful both on the body and on the soul Vale: So from being 39 points behind me in the standings he returned to just 14 points from me. He basically re-opened the championship fight. I don't know if Brivio told you this but that night during dinner, there were just three races left of the season, that night I said to him (Davide Brivio) : "This year Gibernau is not gonna win again, because I'm gonna win them (the races) all"
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