THE TEAM PRAMAC D’ANTIN MOTOGP IS GETTING READY FOR
THE RACE
 The
single session of qualifying practice reserved to the MotoGP
class on the Portuguese circuit of Estoril was held in good
weather conditions. The two riders of the TEAM PRAMAC D’ANTIN
MOTOGP, the German ALEX HOFMANN and the Spanish JOSE LUIS
CARDOSO, despite some difficulties in the definition of the
ideal set-up of their DUCATI DESMOSEDICI GP06 “Sat.”
with DUNLOP tyres, qualified themselves respectively in 18th
and 19th position and are ready to make their maximum during
the 28 laps of tomorrow’s competition. The race will
start tomorrow at 1:00 p.m. (GMT+1).
ALEX HOFMANN #66 (18th - 1’39.647):
“Unfortunately, today I cannot say I’m satisfied
as we haven’t found a set-up giving me the right feeling
to be able to make better laptimes. We already knew that these
last two races would have been difficult, as both tracks ain’t
particularly adapted to our “package” but, honestly,
I was hoping something better. We worked a lot to get ready
for the competition but we’re still far from the other
riders and this will surely be a hard race. Anyway, I will
make my best and I nearly hope some change in the weather
conditions, it could help us”.
JOSE LUIS CARDOSO #30 (19° - 1’40.451):
“Today, things went a bit better from yesterday, I have
a good feeling with the bike even though we still have grip
difficulties. We tested different solutions but didn’t
find anything that really could improve our situation. Consequently,
when I enter the corners, the motorcycle is unstable and when
I go out of them, it slides a lot. It’s not easy to
lower my laptimes in these conditions but anyway we made our
maximum today. For the race, we have a new tyre that should
allow us to end the race in quite good conditions. I really
want to make a good result in front of the public that will
come and support me, I ‘m very motivated!”.
ANDRE LAUGIER – Track Engineer of Jose Luis
Cardoso: “During the qualifying practice session,
unfortunately, we didn’t have the time to put on the
third qualifying tyre. A real pity as we could have improved
a bit more our best laptime but, anyway, races ain’t
done with qualifying tyres. About the race tyres, we tested
two new ones, the softer seems to be more constant and should
last for the 28 laps of the competition. The other one, harder,
raised the laptimes about 1 second. Now we will see what will
happen during the race”.
1. Valentino Rossi 1’36.200
2. Colin Edwards 1’36.478
3. Nicky Hayden 1’36.549
4. Daniel Pedrosa 1’36.569
5. Casey Stoner 1’36.702
18. Alex Hofmann 1’39.647
19. Jose Luis Cardoso 1’40.451
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