Following his second place at the German MotoGP round this afternoon, Valentino Rossi has said that his main aim for the rest of the season is to do something about Casey Stoner.
The Doctor, who crossed the line some three seconds behind Stoner Ducati's, said he had good pace when he got clear but is wasn't enough to catch Stoner, who had pulled the pin after Dani Pedrosa's crash.
“I’m really happy with this result, even if racing in the rain today wasn’t quite as much fun as I’ve had in some of my past races here! For the championship this is very, very important; I made a mistake last week in Assen and today Dani did the same. It’s unlucky but this is racing and now we are back in front and this is a very good feeling," said Rossi.
"Dani is tough and we know he will be back fighting at the front, but sincerely at the moment we need to think about how to catch Casey because he has been very fast now for a few races. Once again here we lost some time during the practice trying to find the right setting and we can’t afford to keep doing this. Today we started from the third row and this meant that I had to deal with some confusion at the start and lost some time on the front riders. By the time I got behind Casey my M1 was working very well and I had very good grip with my Bridgestone rain tyres; I felt very confident and I tried hard to push but there was no way to catch him at that stage."