Grand Prix of Netherlands (Assen)
TEAM PRAMAC D’ANTIN CONFIDENT IN ASSEN DUTCH
TT CIRCUIT AFTER FREE PRACTICE DAY
First free practice day, ended in positive way on Ducth TT
circuit in Assen for Pramac d’Antin Team, which work
so hard for Saturday’s race.
Alex Barros and Alex Hofmann, well opened their ninth appointment
making good free practice session especially in the morning
and obtained the eight and fifth positions respectively ,
riding with their desmosedici with Bridgestone tires.
The Brazilian rider, veteran on Dutch circuit was able to
find a good feeling with the whole package bike-tires that
make him very confident for the race.
The situation is as much positive for The German Team-mate
Hofmann, who, not considering the afternoon session recorder
time, is satisfied for his practice day and particularly confident
to be able to obtain his hoped result on Saturday, thanks
to his constant race pace.
Alex Barros(1’38.485 – 20 laps):
“I’m satisfied for my first day spent in Assen.
The bike has a good set-up and made us able to be really competitive.
The feeling we have found here is better than in Donington
and for this reason I’m particularly confident for Saturday’s
race. Today we worked both on tires and bike set-up to individualize
the most satisfactory solution; we have to do some more adjustment
in order to be more fast on the T2 and T8, two turns that
I’m not like so much and give me some difficulties loosing
important time. Tomorrow I hope to have the possibility to
make further improvement , but even if the weather will be
not so good, I’m not worried because my race configuration
and pace are already competitive.”
Alex Hofmann (1’38.846 – 22 laps):
“Today we worked so hard and we have made tests as much
as possible to try all material we thought important for the
race. In general have been a positive day, especially in the
morning when I recorded the fifth position. During the afternoon
practice I had some little difficulties, maybe due to the
wind that was particularly noising; unfortunately I make my
time better only for few thousandth, but I’m not worried
about that, I’ve a good feeling and my race pace is
constant. We need only to do small adjustment to avoid to
lose too much time in the chicane.”
Official Times:
1° Casey Stoner: 1’37.828
2° Randy de Puniet: 1’38.040
3° Nicky Hayden: 1’38.114
4° Valentio Rossi: 1’38.148
5° Dani Pedrosa: 1’38.221
10°Alex Barros: 1’38.485
14°Alex Hofmann: 1’38.846
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