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Well,… melihat video diatas, terlihat banget race pertama kali Yamaha YZR-M1 memenangkan race di MotoGP pasca Rossi memperkuat tim Yamaha …!!! Yup,.. kejadian itu tahun 2004.. di Phakisa Circuit, Welkom Afrika Selatan …!!! Pada saat itu Rossi membungkam Max Biaggi dengan Honda nya…  !!! 😀

Di tahun 2003, motor Yamaha identik dengan motor gureeem… karena sekalipun tidak pernah menang… !!! Dari 16 kali race di tahun 2003, motor Honda begitu perkasa dengan memenangkan 15 kali race… sedangkan Ducati bisa mencuri kemenangan 1 kali race …!!! Rossi lah yang memberikan masukan pengembangan YZR-M1… sehingga langsung ditahun 2004 ia menjuarai … dan dari 16 kali race Rossi langsung bisa memenangkan 9 kali race… sisanya diambil oleh Honda …!!! So jelas sekali ada perasaan kehilangan… berpisah dari M1 yang sudah dibesarkan oleh Rossi …!!!

Hal ini diutarakan oleh Rossi… dimana ia harus berpisah dengan motor yang telah ia besarkan …!!! Jorge Lorenzo memang tinggal menggenjot saza… YZR-M1 yang telah susah payah dibangun oleh Rossi …!!! Semua rasa kehilangan Rossi dituliskann oleh nya kedalam suatu surat… !!! Yang menarik ia menyebut YZR-M1 sebagai she… motor cewek yang enak ditunggangi… !!! Waagh salah donk gue… nagsih nama Ki pada Ki Demang… mestinya Nyai Demang… xixixi

Last,… monggo dibaca curahan hati Valentino Rossi… yang akan berpisah dengan YZR-M1…

“It is very difficult to explain in just a few words what my relationship with Yamaha has been in these past seven years.

“Many things have changed since that far-off time in 2004, but especially ‘she’, my M1, has changed. At that time she was a poor middle-grid position MotoGP bike, derided by most of the riders and the MotoGP workers. Now, after having helped her to grow and improve, you can see her smiling in her garage, courted and admired, treated as the ‘top of the class’.

“The list of the people that made this transformation possible is very long, but I would like to thank anyway Masao Furusawa, Masahiko Nakajima and ‘my’ Hiroya Atsumi, as representatives of all the engineers that worked hard to change the face of our M1. Then Jeremy Burgess and all my guys in the garage, who took care of her with love on all the tracks of the world and also all the men and women that have worked in the Yamaha team during these years.

“Now the moment has come to look for new challenges; my work here at Yamaha is finished. Unfortunately even the most beautiful love stories finish, but they leave a lot of wonderful memories, like when my M1 and I kissed for the first time on the grass at Welkom, when she looked straight in my eyes and told me ‘I love you!’”

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