COMPLICATED DAY FOR THE PILOTS OF THE PRAMAC-D´ANTIN
TEAM.
The second and defining day of Free Practices for the category
of MotoGP has concluded, with intense heat playing a significant
part and making it difficult to work throughout the entire
day. This affected the general classification and contrary
to the last races, no Ducati was able to classify for the
race on Sunday within the first five positions. The pilots
of the Pramac-Dantin Ducati team continued to have problems
today, and Alex Barros will start from the fifth row while
his team mate, Shinichi Ito, will start from the seventh.
The race will start at 2:00 PM, local time, and will consist
of a total of 24 laps.
Alex Barros (20 laps. 1´47´36).
“Even though my position for tomorrow says otherwise,
we have done some important work with the general set-up of
the bike and with the tires, and I was able to lap with a
constant rhythm of 48.5, a time which will allow me to gain
positions depending on the weather conditions at the time
of the race and at the start. In the Qualifying session, we
mounted a tire that was harder to give me more confidence,
but the track temperature was very high so it didn’t
benefit me at all. Tomorrow I hope to have a good start, and
if the weather is cooler I’m confident to make a good
race”.
Shinichi Ito (20 laps. 1´49´54).
“I couldn’t get to a good point with the general
set-up, and the transmission combination wasn’t accurate,
so tomorrow we will try to get more out of my Ducati GP7.
During the warm-up, we will apply various modifications with
the objective of making a better set-up for the race. If it
rains tomorrow for the race, I will hope for a good start
and intend to get a good result. I’m pretty good in
the wet, but we know the risks that come with wet asphalt
and those variables can change the results”.
Official Times:
1º Dani Pedrosa 1´45¨86
2º Valentino Rossi 1´46´25
3º Nicky Hayden 1´46´57
4º Randy de Puniet 1´46´64
5º Toni Elías 1´46´80
15º Alex Barros 1´47´36
20º Shinichi Ito 1´49´54
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