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2007-06-15 Barros wants to continue good Donington record
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The Pramac d’Antin team heads to Great Britain for the eighthchampionship appointment on the 2007 MotoGP calendar that at theDonington Park track in England. The track is characterised by fastcorners and hard deceleration that makes life hard for the ridersespecially when weather conditions are not favourable.
For Alex Barros, who is currently in eighth position in the riders’championship, the Donington track holds good memories and is a circuitat which he achieved a string of four consecutive podiums between 2001and 2005. He also holds the maximum speed record.
Team-mate Alex Hofmann is in positive frame of mind after the postCatalunya test at the Monmelò circuit and will use the British GP as anoccasion to demonstrate the progress made.
As usual, the race weekend will start on Friday 22 June with freepractice and end on Sunday 24 with the race that will take place at 1pmlocal time (GMT +1).
Alex Barros (51 points – 8th in championship):
The next race is very important forus. As I look at my position on championship classification, I hope toarrive in the first five positions this weekend to get important pointsthat will enable me to secure this eighth position in the championship.During the last years, I always obtained good results in Great Britain,between 2001 and 2005 I was always able to visit the podium and in 2000I recorded the fastest lap. It isn’t one of my favourite tracks, alsobecause as I always say there isn’t any track I particularly prefer,but I hope to be able to keep this positive tradition in Donington andride a good race. Maybe we will suffer because there is not a longstraight, but we will make our best to get a good start and hopefullyreach our target.
Alex Hofmann (38 points – 12th in championship):
I’m ready for the next race and Iwant to do well. After my fifth position in Le Mans, I had somedifficulties both in Mugello and Barcelona, but after the test we madein Montmelò, I’m more confident and I hope to be able to show that Iand my team have the possibility to score good results. I know thatthis will not be an easy track, but I will give my best. I hope to doanother good qualifying session and to start as high up the grid aspossible because we will not have a long straight to exploit thisweekend.
Luis d’Antin – Team Manager:
The next GP in Donington will not bevery easy for us: the track isn’t really suited to our bikecharacteristics, but we will give our maximum to have a competitiverace. Thanks to the material that both Bridgestone and Ducati give us,we have always shown ourselves to be capable of running inside the topten, and the next round could be an occasion to confirm that thepackage at our disposal is really competitive and to show that we canget results even if things seem to be at a disadvantage. If all goes inthe right direction, I’m sure that we won’t be going to Assen withoutfirst obtaining important points for the championship in Donington.
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