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He may have won the MotoGP championship on several occasions, but Valentino Rossi says his victory in the Monza rally last weekend was just as gratifying as winning on two wheels.

Having finished second there last season, finishing ahead of former World Rally champion Colin McRae among others, Rossi went one better this time around and won in five of the race's seven stages to take his first official rally win.

He then proceeded to win Monza's special head-to-head contest for the second year in a row, taking the notable scalp of another former World Rally winner, Didier Auriol, in the bargain to leave the Italian in an ebullient mood.

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He said afterwards: "I didn't celebrate a [MotoGP] victory after Malaysia and I can say that winning in rally gives the same emotions as winning in MotoGP.

"The car was perfect and above all I didn't make any mistakes - that is what counts most in rallying."

Yet Rossi's commitment to bike racing remains strong: he jetted over to Jerez in Spain soon afterwards to test out Yamaha's new 800cc bike and promptly nearly beat the track's record lap time, which he had set himself back in 2005.

Having lost his MotoGP title for the first time in six years to Honda's Nicky Hayden, Rossi says he knows there are a lot of younger racers who will have hopes of toppling him as well, but judging by his latest performance they will have a tough time doing so.

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