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He suffered.
When Jorge Lorenzo
Yamaha offered to keep Rossi on
if he'd take a pay cut and accept
number two status in the team.
After a decade, as one of the highest
paid sportsmen in the world,
he might not have needed the money,
but Rossi had always been number one.
Casey Stoner had taken the best bike
available for 2011.
He was leaving Ducati
for Repsol Honda,
the team of his childhood hero,
Mick Doohan.
Rossi now did
what everybody hoped he would.
He said goodbye to his beloved Yamaha
and he moved to Ducati.
The Italian dream team was born.
I remember writing if he wins a race,
it would be like the Pope
winning at Monza in a Ferrari.
And it would be a fantastic story.
But it was an unmitigated disaster.
Casey Stoner had won
23 races for the Italian team.
None of the other Ducati riders
could come close.
In 2009, when I first got on the bike,
I couldn't believe
how Casey could go so fast with it.
Casey had extreme talent.
Stoner's success rate at
Ducati had declined over time, though.
Ten wins the first year, then six,
then four, then three.
He had also missed three races
through illness in 2009.
Many thought the declining results
were due to his health problems.
They were wrong.
Stoner wasn't getting worse
as the years went by.
The bike was.
I had a very bad feeling.
From the first time in Valencia.
And I was very, very...
Not desperate, but very worried
to make the wrong choice.
We copped a lot of flak
from Valentino.
Not just me but my whole team.
Valentino and Jerry Burgess
and all that.
They'd said so many bad things
about what Ducati had done
and what myself and my crew had done.
It really frustrated me.
Rossi was hampered
by a shoulder injury
from a crash on a dirt bike
in early 2010.
At first he was in bad shape
with his shoulder
but then we realized
the bike was in bad shape as well.
Rossi was 15th fastest
at the MotoGP test in Valencia.
Stoner was fastest on the Honda.
After the test,
Rossi went back to Italy
for surgery to repair his shoulder.
Four months later,
it was time to go racing.
Stoner won the first grand prix
of 2011 in Qatar.
Rossi was seventh.
The rain in Spain at the second race
was good news for the Italian team.
The wet conditions lowered speeds
and reduced the forces
which unsettled the Ducati in the dry.
Rossi set the fastest lap in the race
and looked on course for a win.
He just needed to get past
Stoner and Simoncelli.
And now Valentino Rossi
has got Casey Stoner in his sight.
He's taken down Stoner!
Valentino Rossi attacked
from a long way back
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