PRAMAC D’ANTIN MOTOGP
Grand Prix of Spain
Catalunya Circuit, Spain
Monday 12 June 2006 - PREVIEW
PRAMAC D’ANTIN MOTOGP: IN BARCELONA AT HOME
 The
Team PRAMAC D’ANTIN MOTOGP faces the home appointment
with more enthusiasm. The seventh round of the 2006 MotoGP
World Championship will be this weekend on the Catalunya Circuit,
near Barcelona, Spain. The two riders, ALEX HOFMANN and JOSE
LUIS CARDOSO are ready to go on track with the DUCATI DESMOSEDICI
GP06 “Sat.”, with DUNLOP tyres, and they will
try to conquest more points for the 2006 MotoGP World Championship
classification. The whole Team is very motivated and will
work very hard to get a good result in front of all the sponsors
and the supporters that will be present for the occasion.
The first session of free practice will be on Friday 16th
June at 10:00 a.m..
LUIS D’ANTIN (Team Manager): “We’re
back in Spain, and this weekend will be very important for
all our Team, which race department is in Madrid. To race
at home increases our motivations, we also have a Spanish
rider, JOSE LUIS CARDOSO from Sevilla, and we will make our
best working efficiently from the first practice sessions
to obtain a good result in front of our public and our sponsors”.
ALEX HOFMANN #66: “Catalunya is a
beautiful track, more than all really fast and quite similar
to Mugello, as it has a very long straight. Generally I can
say I like it. I’m confident fot this weekend. During
the IRTA Test of this winter, we had some difficulties and
so we will have to work very hard to improve ourselves, but
the whole Team really wants to make something good. Here in
Spain I will try to give the maximum as I always do, and I
really hope to conquest other points for the general classification
of the Championship”.
JOSE LUIS CARDOSO #30: “I’m
really enthusiast and motivated!! Coming back racing in Spain
where I really would like to obtain some points! The Catalunya
track is a track I know really good, being in Spain, my country.
With our DUCATI I did some practice during the IRTA Test and
this will surely help us. I hope we will have more luck than
usually. For me it would be great to conquest my first points
on this track, in front of my public, at home”.
CIRCUIT DETAILS
The “Circuit de Catalunya”, inaugurated in September
1991, is situated at about 20km at North of Barcelona. It
is considered to be one of the best designed circuits of the
recent era and it also received, in 2001, the prestigious
trophy for the “Best Grand Prix” that give IRTA
each season.
It has a general admission capacity of 104.000 spectators.
It’s track is 4727meters long and has 13 corners (8
right and 5 left corners). This circuit, as the Mugello one,
has a very long straight, more than 1km long, and this allows
the motorcycles to obtain really high speeds. Its track has
a sequence of really large corners, some very fast chicanes
and two tight left corners. In some points, it looks like
Jerez, also for its uneven ground, near the braking points.
About the setting of the motorcycles, it’s a very difficult
track. Because of the very fast big corners, the stability
of the front is fundamental, but it has to be obtained without
sacrificing the general balance of the motorcycle, especially
because the riders, for the most of the time, are down, waiting
for the moment to use the whole power of their motorcycles
in the accelerations.
Longest straight: 1,047m
Width: between 11 and 12m
Pole Position: right
Direction: clockwise
MotoGP - Circuit record: 1’43.195 (Valentino Rossi -
2005)
MotoGP - Fastest Lap: 1’42.337 (Sete Gibernau - 2005)
2005 MotoGP race: 1st Valentino Rossi (Yamaha) 2nd Sete Gibernau
(Honda) 3rd Marco Melandri (Honda)
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