The great fights with your strongest rivals are always the biggest motivation. When you win easily it's not the same taste.

Racing with Yamaha gives me a great taste and a great motivation to win; these last two championships have been two of the best,

I race to win. If I am on the bike or in a car it will always be the same.

When it's difficult like this, the taste (of winning) is better.

I never race for records. The motivation to try to beat the record is not enough to continue. You have to enjoy it.

Did the fact that 2004 was so (relatively) easy to win the championship make Ferrari a little bit more complacent going into 2005, and following on from that, does this year being so difficult, make the team tougher and ready for 2006?