VERY COMPLICATED RACE FOR THE PRAMAC-D´ANTIN TEAM.
The penultimate round of the MotoGP World Championship held
at the Malaysian circuit of Sepang has seen yet another victory
for Casey Stoner, proving the supremacy of the Ducati-Bridgestone
combination. Nonetheless, for the Pramac-Dantin Team, the
race was not satifactory due to technical problems. Alex Barros
finished in twelfth position and Chaz Davies in seventeenth.
In two weeks the final round of the season will be held at
the Ricardo Tormo circuit in Valencia, Spain.
Alex Barros (12th place). “I'm not
happy with the race I just finished. At the beginning, the
motor's performance wasn't as good as we expected and I couldn't
get into a good rhythm. I'm not exactly sure what happened,
but the engineers are analyzing the data. The Team has worked
so hard, and I hope that things will go better in Valencia”.
Chaz Davies (17th place). ”This has
been a difficult race for me. I got a good start, but in the
second corner I was on the outside and three or four guys
got past me. After that, I tried to stick with the group of
Checa, Nakano, and Aoki, but I wasn't able to. The set-up
of the bike was better today, but it still wasn't enough to
fight for the points. I'm not happy with this race, but I
hope to do better in Valencia because that is a track I like
and it's where I've had my best finish before”.
Fabiano Sterlacchini (Track Engineer). “We
are checking all the data so that we can clearly understand
what wasn't working well, and also why Barros was able to
go a second faster per lap than at the beginning of the race.
The tires also didn't work as well as they have, because the
resurfacing of the asphalt has changed our set-up reference
that we obtained in the preseason tests”.
Final Results.
1º Casey Stoner 43´04´40
2º Marco Melandri 43´06´10
3º Dani Pedrosa 43´06´73
4º Randy de Puniet 43´08´17
5º Valentino Rossi 43´09´17
12º Alex Barros 43´40´07
17º Chaz Davies 44´03´31
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