BEST PERFORMANCE OF THE SEASON FOR GUINTOLI: TENTH.
ELIAS CONCLUDES IN TWELFTH POSITION.
A day much similar to yesterday with wet track in the morning
and a dry race in the afternoon. Sylvain Guintoli, who started
from the tenth position, didn’t make it to start well
losing two positions in the first turns, but after the unlucky
falls by Rossi and De Puniet, he found himself in tenth position
at the end of the first lap. In the first few laps the French
rider didn’t make it to find the same rhythm registered
in yesterday’s sessions and only after two third of
the race he improved his performances reaching in the last
lap Toseland. The British rider made it to defend the ninth
position on the finish line. This has been for Guintoli the
first top ten of the season that demonstrate the good step
forward taken. His teammate, Toni Elias, didn’t make
it to solve the problems encountered in the past two days
and had to be content with the final twelfth position. In
two weeks his opportunity to step up for the Grand Prix of
Germany, on the Sachsenring circuit.
Sergio Verbena – Sylvain Guintoli’s Track
Engineer
“Sylvain has done a good race. He has committed a couple
of mistakes and this cost him one or two positions. I think
that only some hundreds of meters and he could have overtaken
Toseland, but we can consider our self satisfied of this first
top ten of the season. He found a good riding style to manage
the bike and I believe we can do the same or even improve
in the next Grand Prix in Germany.”
Sylvain Guintoli – Alice Team rider (10th in
the race – 16th in the MotoGP Classification)
“I am happy for how it went the weekend overall and
this is very important for us. I am sorry only because I thought
I could have done better today. The race rhythm wasn’t
the same of the past two days. I committed a mistake when
I was behind Toseland and while trying to solve it I went
out of the track losing some seconds. Without that mistake
I would have surely finished in front of him if not even further
up. It is strange because here and in Donington I registered
my best lap times in the last five laps of the race: I have
to find the way to be much more competitive since the first
laps. I must thanks my technicians: they always gave their
best and if today we made it to enter the top ten it’s
also thanks to them.”
Toni Elias – Alice Team rider (12th in the
race – 12th in the MotoGP Classification)
“Today nothing went well. I didn’t enjoy it at
all. We have to forget all we have done to do much better
in the second part of the championship. With the Team, Ducati
and Bridgestone I am sure we can do much better. The only
consolation I have is that I finally made it to finish a race
in Assen in the major class: I never made it for various unlucky
reasons.”
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