The poetic Dr Costa on the dual-seat Desmosedici

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Ah, you've got to love the sentiment. This is what Dr. Costa had to say after he had a go on the dual-seat Desmosedici behind Randy Mamola....

"What a fantastic experience, today I lived what my heroes and friends live," he said. "I have lived for many years in the world of MotoGP but not until today was I able to feel what the riders feel. At first I didn't enjoy the ride too much because I was concentrating so hard on what I was doing. During that one lap I lived in the blast of the wind, normally I don't enjoy the turbulence when I'm in a car, but today I enjoyed the wind, it felt like the breath of my heroes! Motorcycles can help people do special things in front of the crowds, and today I experienced a little bit of that with Randy."

"Creating an emotion means to be thrown from one world into the next. Today, I experienced this other world. A world where my heroes play a game of chess with the lady in black. But while they can smile to her, I was afraid. In the emotional moments that followed this experience today, I understood why my father never allowed me to try a bike: he knew I would have loved it to death."