FIRST POINT FOR THE TEAM PRAMAC D’ANTIN MOTOGP
A sunny day at Jerez de la Frontera in Spain, for the first
race of the season in the MotoGP World Championship, that
also meant the Home Grand Prix for the Team PRAMAC D’ANTIN
MOTOGP. ALEX HOFMANN has finished the race in 15th position,
getting his first point of the season after a difficult race.
The Spanish JOSE LUIS CARDOSO has concluded his first appearance
in the premier-class with a retirement caused by the improvised
deterioration of the rear DUNLOP cover of his DUCATI DESMOSEDICI
GP06 “Sat.”.
 Next
appointment on Saturday 8th April on the Circuit of Losail,
for the second of the seventeenth races of the 2006 MotoGP
season.
ALEX HOFMANN #66: “I obtained my first
point of the season for the World Championship classification
in the MotoGP class and this makes me optimistic even if I
wanted to make a better result. I had a good start, recuperating
three or four positions, but then I was slowed by one rider’s
crash. From the warm-up of this morning the temperatures were
a lot higher and the race was slower than what I expected.
Unfortunately I didn’t manage to keep the contact with
the riders I had in front. I did my own race, concentrating
myself at the maximum to collect the most information as possible;
and we surely can’t be satisfied, we need to work a
lot more for the next races. It also has been a physically
very hard race, It never had been so difficult before; a very
good physical training especially at the end of the race.
In two weeks we will be in Qatar, I like this track and I
classified myself 9th in 2004. I hope to have fun on our DUCATI
very soon as well!”
JOSE LUIS CARDOSO #30: “I’m
really disappointed. The race started in a good way but after
three laps I began to have some difficulties with the rear.
Lap after lap, the situation was getting worse and the bike
became too difficult to control; I preferred to stop and avoid
some eventual crash. I’m really sorry for the Team that
had worked so hard during the whole weekend; I really wanted
to get a good result in front of my public, so warm and affectionate
to me. I thank all the people. The next race will be in Qatar,
a track that I really like: last year, with the Superbike,
I did second in the qualifying practice and sixth in the Superpole!”.
LUIS D’ANTIN - TEAM MANAGER: “Our
biggest handicap is, without any doubt, the least quantity
of tyres we had at our disposal for this race, something that
really limited our performance. This is a quite hard situation
for the riders that take part to MotoGP races. I hope that
DUNLOP, our Official Tyres’ Supplier, will be able to
offer us a bigger quantity of tyres for the race in Qatar,
as this track suits these covers in a better way; it could
be an optimal opportunity to give more visibility to the two
DUNLOP Teams of the World Championship. On the other side,
both our riders really want to fight; if we will give them
the minimum necessities, they surely will be able to make
a good result. For us, the World Championship is starting
right now, we need to work a lot more, and in a better way!”.
1. Loris Capirossi in 45’57.733 ; 2. Daniel Pedrosa
at 4.375; 3. Nicky Hayden at 9.996; 4. Toni Elias at 10.135;
5. Marco Melandri at 19.547; 6. Casey Stoner at 21.237; 7.
Shinya Nakano at 21.372; 8. Kenny Roberts Jr at 32.414; 9.
John Hopkins at 32.659; 10. Makoto Tamada at 35.983; ...;
15. Alex Hofmann at 1’23.300; ...
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