PRAMAC D’ANTIN MOTOGP Grand Prix of Italy
Mugello Circuit, Italy
Friday 2nd June 2006 - Free Practice
PRAMAC D’ANTIN MOTOGP SI PREPARA PER LA GARA
 A
day characterized by the instability of the weather, on the
Italian track of Mugello; the Team PRAMAC D’ANTIN MOTOGP
concentrated himself especially on the DUNLOP tyres during
these first sessions of free practice, but the bad weather
didn’t allow a perfect development of the program that
first was predicted. For tomorrow, the whole Team hopes for
a dry track, to get the chance to find the best setting for
the DUCATI DESMOSEDICI GP06”Sat.”. This race is
an important appointment, at home, where a lot of sponsors
and partners of the Team will be present.
The German ALEX HOFMANN obtained the 16th general time, while
the Spanish JOSE LUIS CARDOSO classified himself 19th.
Tomorrow at 10a.m., there will be another session of free
practice, before the single session of qualifying practice
reserved to the MotoGP class riders at 2p.m..
ALEX HOFMANN #66 (16th - 1’54.103):
“The weather conditions were changing too much and didn’t
help, they didn’t allow us to finish the work we had
programmed. We tested a couple of new tyres, but there is
a lot of work left to do. For the moment, I’m not much
satisfied, I hope that tomorrow the track will be dry during
both practice sessions, so we will have the chance to make
other test and find the best setting for the race. I hope
to conquest a good result in front of all our sponsors, partners
and numerous fans and friends. It’s our home race and
it’s important to make a good result here in Italy”.
JOSE LUIS CARDOSO #30 (19th - 1’55.637):
“Today we concentrated ourselves on the tyres, we had
some new slick ones to test. Unfortunately, the weather instability
didn’t allow us to work in an adequate manner; the meteorological
conditions were changing too often. A real pity because we
needed to work a lot, the development of the tyres demands
a great effort and we hope that the weather will be fine tomorrow,
so to be able to ride on a dry track and get the maximum from
the last two practice sessions. It’s important to find
a good set-up that adapts itself to our tyres, for the race
on Sunday. I like this track a lot and I really would like
to obtain a good result here, in front of all our sponsors”.
EMANUELE MARTINELLI - Track Engineer of Alex Hofmann:
“Today we tested some new tyres brought us here by DUNLOP,
that were slightly better. Unfortunately, we had no much time
at our disposal, due to the instability of the weather, and
there is a lot of work left to make. So, tomorrow, if the
weather conditions will allow it, we will concentrate ourselves
on the set-up of the motorcycle: we must work on the frame
to adapt it the most possible to the tyres that we will use
during the race. We need to make many kilometres, to find
more grip, useful to control the motorcycle, that becomes
difficult to ride when the tyres consume themselves”.
1. Valentino Rossi 1’51.238
2. Loris Capirossi 1’51.599
3. Sete Gibernau 1’51.907
4. John Hopkins 1’52.082
5. Casey Stoner 1’52.101
17. Alex Hofmann 1’54.103
19. Jose Luis Cardoso 1’55.637
Conditions: Dry-Wet / Air: 16°c / Ground:
22°c / Humidity: 25%
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