Marco Melandri is preparing for the Mugello race, and has posted another diary entry on his site for his fans, after a period of silence in which he reveals he’s afraid of waking up from a dream. “Not even in the rosiest of dreams I’ve lived such a fun season start,” he says.

Melandri says he’s happy even if the next few races will be very difficult. “But I’m not scared,” he says. “No words can describe my feelings after the GP at Le Mans. I knew that the difficult conditions would be an occasion to take advantage of, and I was hoping to come close to the podium, but not to step up on it.”

Mugello is a hard race for any Italian, although there’s the excitement of being on home ground and participating in a small slice of history. Melandri says: “Now we’re at Mugello, an incredible race for all Italians. I can’t wait to live it! When I think of last winter and how I was seen by people, and how they see me now, I would say many years have passed. But really only a little time has passed.”

“I’ve trained hard over the last few days, the heat will be a hard rival at Mugello, but I think I’m more his friend than other fellow riders…Every day I watch the Giro d’Italia on TV and I see that every course and every race there’s something to learn. It’s incredible how the result from the day before can be turned around and I think: if you can do it on a bicycle, can you do it in every motorcycle race? Forgetting the past and starting again with your head down and only one aim: always giving 100 percent, then thinking at the end of the race at what point you’re at.

“I would have like to have done a special design of the GP at home to then sell it at auction and raise money for the earthquake victims in Abruzzo but unfortunately we couldn’t finish the project.”

Source | MarcoMelandri.it

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