FREE PRACTICE UNDER WET FOR THE PRAMAC D’ANTIN AT
DONINGTON PARK
 A
typical English weather day characterised by intermittent
rain, opened the eighth world championship appointment of
MotoGP on Donington Park circuit, that showed the Pramac d’Antin
guys engaged in free practice session in reason of Sunday’s
race.
This weekend seems to be particularly difficult, both because
of not good weather and track conditions as very technical
and characterised by slippery asphalt, will make things difficult
for MotoGP class drivers.
Alex Barros, who got the podium for four consecutive times
here in Donington Park, today had some difficulties to find
the right feeling with his Desmosedici with Bridgestone tires
equipped. However the Brazilian, is confident for tomorrow
free practice, convinced to dispute good qualifying session.
Same difficulties for the team mate Alex Hofmann, not very
in tune with Donington track, had some problem to get the
right feeling with his Ducati’s rear .
Alex Barros (1’46.100 – 19 laps):
“For me it wasn’t an easy day, even if in the
afternoon I improved my feeling, I’m not completely
satisfied in reason of the time I got, it would be better.
I would have more comfort to ride, but unfortunately we still
haven’t find out the best solution. In braking I’m
quite good, but in turns we lost a lot of time; especially
in T2 and T3 , I’m not completely steady. Despite this,
I’m confident for tomorrow, and I think we can really
improve.”
Alex Hofmann (1’46.863 – 22 laps):
“It was a very demanding day for me, we had some difficulties
to found the most suitable feeling, but I think that was a
common problem because of track condition which weren’t
so good. My difficult was due especially by bike rear, it
wasn’t completely stable and we lost a lot of speed
in the curves. We tried different solution, but we aren’t
satisfied because the lap wasn’t the one we wanted.
I hope to be able to exploit at the maximum tomorrow’s
session to find the best possible race configuration and to
do good qualifying practise. On this track is really important
to get favourable position on starting grid because straight
is very short.”
Official Times:
1° Dani Pedrosa: 1’43.870
2° Nicky Hayden: 1’44.344
3° Chris Vermeulen: 1’44.371
4° Colin Edwards: 1’44.445
5° Anthony West: 1’44.498
11° Alex Barros: 1’46.100
13° Alex Hofmann: 1’46.838
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