PRAMAC D’ANTIN MOTOGP
Grand Prix of France
Le Mans Circuit, France
PREVIEW
PRAMAC D’ANTIN MOTOGP BACK TO EUROPE
 After
the race of the 14th May at Shanghai (China), PRAMAC D’ANTIN
MOTOGP goes back to Europe for the fifth race of the World
Championship, that will take place this weekend on the historical
track of Le Mans, in France.
The aim of the Team is to conquest precious points for the
MotoGP World classification, with both riders. The whole Team
is very motivated and willing to go on working hard.
The first sessions of free practice will be on Friday morning
at 10.00 a.m..
LUIS D’ANTIN (Team Manager): “We
will face this European race with big engagement and consciousness.
Let’s hope that out tyres official supplier, DUNLOP,
will bring new material to allow us to evolve and optimize
the work we did during the last Grand Prix, and so that our
riders will be able to express themselves aspiring to important
results expected from the big public that follows us, from
the numerous fans that demonstrates us much warmth and from
the sponsors that trust us and support us race after race”.
ALEX HOFMANN #66: “Le Mans is a track
different from the other ones we went to until now, a very
stop-and-go one. One positive thing is that I already know
it, having done many races there in the past. With my Team
we will go on working according to the information we collected
during the last times, to go on getting points and to improve
some more. The atmosphere at the internal of the Team is optimal,
and I’m sure that this will, soon, help us to conquest
important results”.
JOSE LUIS CARDOSO #30: “Le Mans is
a track that I already know from the last years, and this
will surely help us to immediately begin to work in an efficient
way. The technicians always are very careful to my indications,
they support me a lot; in China, we found a quite good set-up
and I think this will be useful for this Grand Prix. Besides,
I’m getting better with the contusions I sustained after
my crashes at Shanghai; these resting days were very useful”.
CIRCUIT DETAILS
The French Grand Prix of the Motorcycle World Championship
is taking place on the track of Le Mans for the 19th time.
This circuit became famous with its 24-hours races, in the
motorcycling and 4-wheels categories, and has been hosting
races from the late sixties.
The track is 4180 meters long and has 13 corners (9 to the
right and 4 to the left). It has been resurfaces last year
and its facilities can hold about 200.000 persons. Thanks
to the “stop-and-go” characteristics of its track,
it offers a perfect view to the spectators from everywhere.
Le Mans is a track composted by corners in first and second
gear connected by long straights, with only a few chicanes
to interrupt straights until next corners. The corners number
3 and number 5 are the most favourable points for the overtakings.
The decelerations are very sharp and, as usual, it’s
about finding the best compromise, because the more you search
for having stability in the brakings, the less agility you
have in the changes of direction. At Le Mans, anyway, the
experience demonstrates that the decelerations are more important
than the speed in the corners.
Longest Straight: 450m
Width: 13m
Pole Position: Left
Direction: Clockwise
MotoGP - Lap Record: 1’33.678 (Valentino Rossi - 2005)
MotoGP - Fastest Lap: 1’33.678 (Valentino Rossi - 2005)
2005 MotoGP Race: 1° Valentino Rossi (Yamaha) 2° Sete
Gibernau (Honda) 3° Colin Edwards (Yamaha)
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