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Jeremy Burgess is leaning on a crate outside of the pits at Laguna Seca , looks at his boys to open the boxes and the "house" of GP12 for the weekend is slowly taking shape, with red panels that hide the gray concrete walls. " I love coming to this track - he says, enjoying the sun warming his skin - it's more than twenty years since the first time we came here and never drop a drop of rain . " To make the perfect weekend would also serve a great performance from Valentino. " I was thinking earlier this week that will fight for the top two positions - reveals a surprise - I could not do otherwise. Then maybe after the first free practice session I change my mind , "he concludes, laughing.
The Doctor's crew chief looks ahead, no revelations about the future of its pilot, but he knows what use to make a step forward in performance. " This year we started with a completely new bike - he explains - the problem is that from the first race has not changed enough . Perhaps you would have thought about the steps of developing close during the season. For example, a new frame at Le Mans, then at Mugello and so on. Important news that Valentino could try and do their own signs. Instead the frame, which was made ​​very quickly, has changed little, on weekends we rarely try to unpublished components. Rossi to serve as new, different frames for example, but also other less important details, so that when the pilot enters the box and asks: what's new? I can tell you: one plate of the fork, four new screws ... would serve to keep him motivated . "

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Valentino Rossi's long-time engineer Jeremy Burgess has hinted that the MotoGP legend is past his prime in a television interview before the season-opener in Qatar.

Burgess is one of MotoGP's most respected engineers and assisted former champions Wayne Gardner and Mick Doohan during their stellar careers.

Since then he's been embedded firmly in Rossi's camp, following the Italian from Honda to Yamaha, and most recently to Ducati.

The 59-year-old Aussie says Rossi is no longer the best rider in MotoGP.

"He's a realist, he knows he's perhaps not at the level of Casey (Stoner) and Lorenzo but he certainly believes he can race with the rest of them," Burgess said.

"At some point in your life you're not as good as you once were....more here: http://www.foxsports.com.au/motor-sports/moto-gp/valentino-rossis-long-time-engineer-jeremy-burgess-hints-that-the-motogp-legend-is-past-his-prime/story-fn2ms4i4-1226321784807