Malaysian Grand Prix
Sepang Circuit, Malaysia - GMT+8 - PREVIEW
THE TEAM PRAMAC D’ANTIN MOTOGP FLY TO ASIA:
THREE RACES IN THREE WEEKS, THE FIRST IN MALAYSIA
 Three
races in three weeks without any possibility of breathing
and an important result to conquest are the aims of the Team
PRAMAC D’ANTIN MOTOGP after the small break that followed
the last race in Brno. The first race will take place in the
Asian continent with the Malaysian Grand Prix, and will be
followed by Australia and Japan. After having replaced the
injured rider Sete Gibernau in Czech Republic, the German
ALEX HOFMANN is back on the DUCATI DESMOSEDICI GP06 “Sat.”
(Dunlop tires) of the Team PRAMAC D’ANTIN MOTOGP. As
his team mate JOSE LUIS CARDOSO, he’s ready to face
these three races out of Europe of the last part of the season.
The first session of free practice will be on Friday 8 September
at 10.00 a.m. in Malaysia (GMT+8).
LUIS D’ANTIN (Team Manager): “The
next three weeks will surely be very intensive as there won’t
be any break. We will face the first round on the circuit
of Sepang, where the climate is very hot and humid. Thanks
to the Winter Test, we will already have a good base to begin
the practice. ALEX HOFMANN will be back with us and we will
work as much as possible to make a good race and satisfy all
our sponsors and fans”.
ALEX HOFMANN #66: “I’ve always
liked to race in Malaysia, it’s a very technical track,
with two long straights and every kind of corners. Of course,
the temperatures are really high but that’s not a problem
for me. Last weekend, I did some training in a race with cars
of 300cv and the temperatures inside the machines were very
high as well. In Sepang, we will make our maximum as we always
do and I hope to be able to make a good race”.
JOSE LUIS CARDOSO #30: “I know this
track very well as I race there many times in the past and
I like it a lot. Thanks to the Winter Test that we made in
the pre-season, we have many references and this will help
us to work in a good way. Three races in three weeks are a
lot but I’m ready and I will make my best. I hope everything
will go in the best way, I really would like to obtain a good
result”.
CIRCUIT DETAILS
The Circuit of Sepang is near Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia and
is one of the longest in the MotoGP World Championship calendar,
5548 meters and 15 corners (5 left and 10 right corners).
This race is the 12th in Malaysia. After the first time in
Shah Alam in 1991, the races of the World Championship remained
there until 1998, year in which it was in Johor. Then, from
1999 it’s took place in Sepang. A part of the Winter
Test are organized there, its track has a very good grip and
there are no holes or imperfections. It’s also very
wide and the riders and the bikes have to be very agile because
there is a big variety of corners and the straights are very
fast. The changes of inclination and elevation in some of
the fastest corners do solicit extremely the grip of the motorcycle
in the entry and the exit of the corners, so a perfect balance
is needed. The warmth and humidity, both so high, do make
the work of the riders and the motorcycles very hard, as for
the technicians and people working on the pit-lane.
Longest straight: 920m
Wide: 25m
Pole Position: Left
Direction: Clockwise
MotoGP - Circuit Record: 2’02.993 (Nicky Hayden - 2005)
MotoGP - Fastest Lap: 2’01.731 (Loris Capirossi - 2005)
2005 MotoGP Race: 1. Loris Capirossi (Ducati) 2. Valentino
Rossi (Yamaha) 3. Carlos Checa (Ducati)
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