Veteran Italian motorcycling ace
Valentino Rossi said Monday he was scared of retiring.
Rossi, who turns 39 on February 16, told German weekly
Speedweek that "I'm afraid of stopping, because it will be hard
to find something else.
"MotoGP is my whole life".
Rossi went on to say that "running the (MotoGP) Academy will
be good and enjoyable, but it's not the same thing."
The nine-time world champ said "I always watch the Moto3 and
Moto2 races with my boys in the Academy. Sometimes I feel a bit
tired. But then my desire to continue to test myself prevails".
In 2018, too, the year his contract with Yamaha runs out,
Rossi said "the first target remains winning the world title.
"The second one is winning races, and the third to get onto
the podium", he said after a tough 2017 in which he won only one
race, at Assen.
Seven of Rossi's nine titles have been in the premier class.
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