POSITIVE DAY FOR THE PRAMAC D’ANTIN MOTOGP TEAM, IN
THE FREE PRACTICE SESSION IN A JEREZ DE LA FRONTERA CIRCUIT
 The
Pramac d’Antin Motogp Team, ended Free Practise day’s
in a positive way, in Jerez .
Despite of Jerez Circuit don’t let to the Ducati’s
rider to disfrute the impressive engins power, both the Pramac
d’Antin MotoGP guys , to score a quite good result that
made them confident looking towards a positive race.
Alex Barros, achieved the time of 1’41.362, classifying
himself in tenth position, at only 0.023s from Colin Edwards,
riding a Yamaha factory machine and preceding the Team DUCATI
top rider Loris Capirossi too.
All the same time, Alex Hofmann, despite some little difficulties
with the acceleration, classified himself just two position
behind the reigning World Champion Nicky Hayden on Honda.
Alex Barros (1’42.383 1° session -1’41.362
2° session): “I’m satisfied with
this first Free Pratices day because we founded really a good
setting. Unfortunately, I used only some soft tires compound,
except in just one lap when I run with other type, that I
feel could be the right choise for the race. We are working
now in a right direction, more than during the last IRTA Test
session and if I’ll we able to reach a good rhythm I’ll
be very confident in a good race.. I’m quite satisfied
with my best lap time scored today, but I hope to do a very
good qualifying session to achieve tomorrow a better starting
slot.. Here in Jerez, there aren’t a lot straight to
overtake the rivals, and so is really very important to be
fast at the start in order to achieve the podium”.
Alex Hofmann ( 1’42.515 1° session -1’41.835
2° session): “I’m quite satisfied
with this day, because we worked on the bike set-up and we
tried some different kind of tires. My lap time could be better
but we are quite near to achieve our aim. The DUCATI-BRIDGESTONE
package at our disposal is very good and let us to be competitive
but I’m sure that this championship will be hard, because
everyone push at the maximum! Despite of my lap time, I’m
equally satisfied because we had constant rythm for the race
and we are better than in Qatar; the thing that I need to
improve is my aceleration on track to have good qualifying
for Sunday’s race.
Tempi ufficiali:
1 Carlos Checa 1’40.851
2 Dani Pedrosa 1’40.906
3 Toni Elias 1’40.972
4 Casey Stoner 1’ 41.971
5 Valentino Rossi 1’41.198
10 Alex Barros 1’41.362
15 Alex Hofmann 1’41.835
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