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it's very important.

And motocross is very fun,

I like a lot motocross.

Valentino will not race

motocross anymore.

I have big, big pressure from

my father that say always,

"No, you don't go

with motocross.

"You're stupid.

It's too dangerous."

I think a lot of MotoGP riders

have injury with motocross.

Because we have

the mind to go fast,

but we don't have

the technique.

Motocross is very

dangerous for the jumps,

it's more dangerous

for the bumps.

When we crash with MotoGP

on the asphalt, you slide.

Sometimes in motocross in the

mud, you crash and you stop.

2010, the French Grand

Prix, third race of the season.

Valentino Rossi

is walking wounded.

He injured his shoulder

in a motocross crash in Italy

a few days after winning the

first MotoGP race in Qatar.

Valentino understands

with this accident

that motocross is not the

right way to drive the bike.

I have a small crack

to the bone, here,

but I think now

the bone is okay,

because it's more

than one month.

Jorge Lorenzo

finished second in Qatar,

riding with a broken thumb

after a pre-season crash

on a dirt bike.

He won the next

race in Spain,

ahead of his compatriot

and archrival, Dani Pedrosa.

Touching in the last corner

and beating him in the last lap

has been 100% adrenaline.

Lorenzo then staged

a post-race celebration

to rival Rossi's

own theatrics.

At Le Mans, MotoGP

rookie Alvaro Bautista

is also walking wounded after a

motocross accident a week earlier.

When I crashed, I

thought, "Okay, I broke."

I'm here because I think

I can try to ride. No?

Bautista had a compound fracture of his

left clavicle operated on a week ago.

He also had thoracic

bruising and broken ribs.

He wants to ride, and

that is quite incredible.

Bautista is one of

six MotoGP rookies in 2010.

They may be new to MotoGP, but

they're not new to each other.

They've raced each other for years

in the junior MotoGP categories.

Bautista and fellow Spaniard,

Hctor Barber

have some history with the

Italian, Marco Simoncelli.

I like a lot

when there is a physical fight

in the last lap,

to try to win the race.

You fight with the

other rider, you touch.

During the race, you want

to kill the other rider,

but after the race,

you give him the hand,

and you go to drink

a beer together.

Okay, you are fighting

and you want to pass bad.

I think he is different, because

he's very ready to hit you.

Every time something happens,

they come to the race direction,

and they say,

"Simoncelli touched me.

"You have to

disqualify him."

And for me, it's not the true

spirit of the motorcycle race.

For me, it's normal.

And also, if you see, Lorenzo and

Pedrosa in the last race touched,

but nobody say nothing.

Simoncelli

sometimes is very hard.

I am his friend, so with

me, he is more soft.

But especially with Bautista,

Barbera, always hard, hard fight.

But he says they are girls.

Yes.

The rookies have graduated

from 150 mile-an-hour

lightweight machines

to 170 mile-an-hour

middleweights.

Now, it's time to go racing on

There are no better riders than

the men they are up against,

and there are no faster bikes.

This is it.

The beginning of the

season, it was quite difficult.

In Malaysia, I crashed,

I had a big crash.

It was a very

strange crash,

because entering the corner,

I lose the front of my bike

and with the leg, I pick up

the bike for some meters,

but after, the bike

retake the grip,

and I had a very

bad high side.

After that moment, I don't

remember very well what happened.

I am afraid

when I crash

and I understand that

I can do nothing.

So, in this moment,

I am a little bit afraid,

not little bit afraid.

The sixth MotoGP

rookie is American Ben Spies.

Unlike the others, he's come from

the world of superbike racing

and has the most

to learn in MotoGP.

The Grand Prix tracks, riders and

machines are all new to him.

On the other side

of the track,

Bautista has an even

worse high side crash,

where the rear wheel slides

sideways, and then regains grip

and flicks the rider

into the air.

Meanwhile, Simoncelli experiences

the much preferred low side fall,

where the front

wheel slides out

and the rider drops just

a few inches to the ground.

The rider has decided

not to ride in Le Mans

and be ready for the

next race in Mugello.

Ben Spies had a big fall with bruising to

his foot and dislocation of the ankle.

If all goes well, and he has the heart

I saw today, he will do the race.

Pedrosa,

two quick laps on the mount,

puts a 10th of a second into

Valentino Rossi, who's second,

Stoner,

who's now third.

To the last lap

for Jorge Lorenzo.

Still,

it's Valentino Rossi

with just a five-hundredth

of-a-second advantage

on the pole position,

ahead of Jorge Lorenzo.

Here's Casey Stoner,

It's gonna be touch and go

whether Casey gets on the front row.

I don't think he's gonna be

able to get on the front row.

I can't see it. No way.

I can't see it either.

Pole. It's the first pole of 2010.

It's Valentino Rossi.

Didn't think

he'd be able to do that

at the beginning

of the session, Julian.

He was quite

a way back.

But how many times have we been

fooled by Valentino Rossi?

"Giacomo, watch out,

just 18 races left. "

"Thank you, Stefania,"

who is mum.

That's a very Italian sort of

thing, a thank you to the mother.

Valentino is a student

of history, he knows very well,

and he knows he's within

range of Agostini's records.

He wants to say, "I won

the most Grand Prixs ever."

He's on 104 at the moment

here in late May, 2010.

He's got 123 to get

to beatAgostini's 122.

Valentino is now 31,

and he's having to

dig very deep indeed

to fight off these youngsters, who

are immune to his mind games.

Rossi is still the king.

We're looking for the person

who is going to depose him.

On Sunday, one of the worst

parts is the nerves you feel.

There is something important

that is gonna happen.

I hate this feeling.

Meditation

helped me a lot,

I just turn on the sunglasses

and I hear my music

and I just close

my eyes and relax.

Like Bruce Lee, no?

Be water, my friend

I always feel a

personal connection with the bike,

because I think

the bike has a soul.

I always make a personal

feeling together.

I always speak

with the bike.

When the bike arrive in January,

it is like with a girlfriend.

MotoGP is a team sport. But

when you start for the race,

for the crucial moment, you

are alone with your bike.

When you are on the

track, you have to be flowing,

and you have to be

enjoying the moment.

Be water, my friend.

You go for the finish line, and

you try to be the fastest.

And it seems

a little bit stupid,

20 riders making the

same way, lap by lap.

But this simple thing

is very complicated.

It's very important to be

faster, but also to be clever, quiet

and don't feel

a lot of the pressure.

I think motorcycle

racing is more fun,

because with motorcycles,

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