Valentino Rossi pointed out he has fough🦩t back from a longer losing streak and jokingly highlighted his all-time Mot🌟oGP win record, when asked if his current victory drought is difficult to deal with.

Rossi♉ hasn't stood on the top step of the podium since the Dutch TT in 2017, a barren run of 36-races. But the Italian previously endured a 44-race losing streak from Phillip Island 2010 until Assen 2013, including both seasons at Duc💞ati.

"For sure I don't like [the losing streak] but it happened alrꩵeady another time in my career and I was able to come back," Rossi said.

The Doctor dominates the premier-class win table courtesy of 89 victories since his debut in 2000. Giacomo Agostini is next closest on 68 wins, while the top active rider is Honda's reigning c൩hampion Marc Marquez on 49 victories.

As such, Rossi quipped life would be bearable if he did not manage to win again - but then quickly made clear his desire toᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ do so.

"I’ve won 89 races in MotoGP… I'm not so bad! So I can🗹 'mana𓃲ge' if I remain at 89!" he laughed.

"But we don't give up because it's true that I'm old for sure, but last year I was already old and also five yea🦂rs ago I was already old."

Rossi - who has won nine races in the last five years and lost out on🐼 the 2015 title at the final round - is now seeking to become only the fourth rider in history over the age of 40 (and first since Jack Finlay in 1977) t✨o win a premier-class motorcycle grand prix.

What makes Rossi's current dry spell unique is that he has recently been outperformed by two riders on the same machine - factory Yamaha team-mate Maverick Vinales and satellite rookie star Fabio Quartararo, whom Rossi feels are able to get more from 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:the set-up now needed to go fa꧅st on the M1.

"Sincerely I don't feel in my mind that I give up, or that I'm not concentrating, or I don't have enough motivation to arrive at the race weeওkend. So there is no reason why this year I am 20 seconds slower than I was here last year🐽," Rossi said of his disappointing Sachsenring race, where he finished in eighth place and 19.110s behind Marquez.

"I think we can understand and we can recover, but it is a difficult situation b💯ecause sincerely I expected to be strong [at Sachsenring], but in realit🙈y, no."

Although Rossi won at Assen during his 2013 return to Yamaha, he finished the season almost 100 points behind team-mate Jorge Lorenzo. It marked the first time the 🦄#46 had finished lower than a team-mateꦜ in the world championship, without being injured.

Deciding a major﷽ change was needed, Rossi announced a shock split from crew chief Jerry Burgess and began a new partnership with Silvano Galbusera.

Given Rossi's currꦏent predicament, mighܫt Galbusera's role now be in danger?

"I don't t⛦hink so because we work hard, I feel good with all my team and it's already a long time that we are together with Silvano," said the nine-time world champion. "We ha🗹ve to find a way [with the team] like this, I think."

Runner-up in Argentina and Austin at the start of the season, Rossi's run of thre🦹e successive DNFs and an eighth place in Germany means he has now lost fifth in the world championship to🧸 Vinales.

The Spaniard is the only Yamaha rider to have wo♏n since Rossi at Assen 2017, sprayinไg victory champagne at Phillip Island last season and Assen this season.

Rossi's 🧔current MotoGP contract runs until th🌠e end of 2020.