Hitting the Apex

00:45:35,107 --> 00:45:36,651 [choir sings] 657 00:46:01,592 --> 00:46:04,595 [man] All the important things Marco did, he did in Malaysia. 658 00:46:06,555 --> 00:46:10,601 The worst crash, the only time he hurt himself was in Malaysia. 659 00:46:11,143 --> 00:46:13,646 On the 125, in 2003 or 2004. 660 00:46:14,313 --> 00:46:18,526 Then he won the world championship in Malaysia. 661 00:46:20,611 --> 00:46:25,574 He set the fastest lap in the MotoGP test in Malaysia. 662 00:46:27,201 --> 00:46:28,202 Everything. 663 00:46:28,869 --> 00:46:31,414 And then he chose to die in Malaysia. 664 00:46:32,123 --> 00:46:34,709 It's a strange thing. Very strange. 665 00:46:56,480 --> 00:46:59,358 I didn't want silence. Silence creates anguish. 666 00:47:00,192 --> 00:47:02,570 Marco would have wanted noise. 667 00:47:02,653 --> 00:47:05,698 He was a noisy guy. 668 00:47:14,498 --> 00:47:16,500 [applause] 669 00:47:20,588 --> 00:47:22,631 [fireworks] 670 00:47:53,120 --> 00:47:55,039 [narrator] The race never ends. 671 00:47:56,248 --> 00:48:01,253 The new season began in April 2012 in the darkness of the Qatari desert. 672 00:48:03,714 --> 00:48:05,007 They were all there. 673 00:48:06,759 --> 00:48:08,094 All but one. 674 00:48:15,059 --> 00:48:17,103 [man] Did you think about stopping? 675 00:48:17,228 --> 00:48:18,896 [Rossi] No, never. 676 00:48:19,021 --> 00:48:23,901 It's not a problem of MotoGP. 677 00:48:24,026 --> 00:48:29,198 It was a bad thing because I lose a friend, you know? 678 00:48:29,281 --> 00:48:36,080 But I never make the link that this can be, stop my career. 679 00:48:36,205 --> 00:48:39,291 I will stop when I don't like any more 680 00:48:39,375 --> 00:48:43,754 to race with motorcycles but not for that reason. 681 00:48:47,091 --> 00:48:51,470 [Drudi] Everyone in this world knows what can happen. 682 00:48:52,138 --> 00:48:54,598 They are not crazy people. 683 00:48:54,723 --> 00:48:58,519 That is a fight between those guys and... 684 00:48:58,644 --> 00:48:59,979 -[questions in Italian] -[man] Death. 685 00:49:01,272 --> 00:49:04,400 In the mind of a rider, that is the biggest challenge. 686 00:49:04,483 --> 00:49:09,864 They are afraid as any other person, but they decide to have that fight. 687 00:49:09,947 --> 00:49:12,700 That fight gives a really strong energy 688 00:49:12,783 --> 00:49:15,995 to feel the life, the blood rolling around your body. 689 00:49:16,745 --> 00:49:20,457 [Suppo] Since the Roman Empire there was in the Coliseum the gladiators. 690 00:49:20,666 --> 00:49:22,418 These are a kind of gladiator. 691 00:49:22,543 --> 00:49:27,089 If you ask yourself does it make sense? No. 692 00:49:27,256 --> 00:49:30,885 We are crazy to risk the life of young people for what? 693 00:49:31,010 --> 00:49:35,848 Um... But it's also true this is part of human culture. 694 00:49:36,932 --> 00:49:40,853 It's been like this since the beginning and probably will be like this forever. 695 00:49:41,020 --> 00:49:45,691 This reminds us to respect the things we do. 696 00:49:45,774 --> 00:49:49,486 And sometimes you get criticized. 697 00:49:49,570 --> 00:49:54,074 This guy... From the sofa, it's very easy to point the finger. 698 00:49:55,159 --> 00:49:58,162 But then you see these things and everybody's like, 699 00:49:58,245 --> 00:50:00,956 "Oh, what happened? What happened?" But it's already too late. 700 00:50:01,040 --> 00:50:06,962 So, we are not just some guys that live the dream. 701 00:50:07,046 --> 00:50:08,464 We are also humans. 702 00:50:09,089 --> 00:50:13,385 [Gresini] This is part of the game. The game of life. 703 00:50:13,469 --> 00:50:16,972 We're here today, tomorrow we don't know. 704 00:50:17,181 --> 00:50:20,893 Sometimes in the evening when the light is fading 705 00:50:21,018 --> 00:50:23,229 you go to bed and thoughts come back to you. 706 00:50:23,354 --> 00:50:29,693 You re-live certain moments and it's very sad, very moving. 707 00:50:29,777 --> 00:50:34,990 But the next day, the light returns, life goes on. 708 00:50:36,033 --> 00:50:38,953 [narrator] Valentino Rossi was serving out his time, 709 00:50:39,036 --> 00:50:41,664 the second year of his Ducati contract. 710 00:50:41,747 --> 00:50:45,459 It was hard to see him like that without a victory in two years. 711 00:50:45,542 --> 00:50:49,046 To see him like that, his eyes no longer shining. 712 00:50:49,213 --> 00:50:52,633 To see him unhappy. It was awful. 713 00:51:01,809 --> 00:51:03,435 [Gambini] Valentino is Valentino. 714 00:51:03,519 --> 00:51:06,021 If they don't give him the perfect bike the way he wants it, 715 00:51:06,105 --> 00:51:07,273 he can't risk it. 716 00:51:07,398 --> 00:51:11,694 He can't risk his life. It wasn't safe. 717 00:51:18,075 --> 00:51:23,038 [narrator] Casey Stoner