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2007-04-13 d`Antin Ducati looks for lost performance from pre-season
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 The third appointment in the 2007 MotoGP World Championship, will hire the Pramac d’Antin MotoGP Team in Istanbul for the Turkey Grand Prix. After a promising winter test season for both PRAMAC D’ ANTIN’s riders, this first part of the championship wasn’t completely satisfying with the Team’s expectation. Alex Barros, ninth in Qatar and eleventh in Spain, is actually tenth overall, but his aim is to do a race up to his talent in the head group.
To raise up in the classification is the same aim for the German Alex Hofmann; after a good race in Qatar he stopped in Jerez for some technical problems. Afterwards, both the rider are determined to push at their maximum to achieve their objectives, starting from the Friday 20th in free practices, to end in Sunday 22th April with the race.
Alex Barros (10 overall – 12 points):
I’m very happy to come back to Istanbul because I like that track so much. I haven’t a lot of data at my disposal to do a forecast, I have run in Turkey only one time in 2005, but I know that Ducati always obtained there good results. This year, however, we have different bikes, so to understand our level on this track, we have to run at least some laps on track! As my concern, I’m deep motivated to do my best to be able to reach my prefixed results; in the firsts two race, I made some mistakes, but I think I was unlucky too; we worked well in bike’s setting and then I had some problem with the front. I’m confident for my next race, if everything will taking the right way, I will be able to have my hoped results.
Alex Hofmann (13 overall – 5 points):
Finally the moment to ride again has arrived! This three weeks’s stop was very useful for my athletic and psychologic training, now I’m deep motivated for this third MotoGP date! I like a lot the Istanbul’s race, in my opinion the track is wonderful and it suites with both Bridgestone tires and Ducati GP7. I’m very impatient to go down on track, because in the firsts two races we didn’t our best; now we want to show that we can achieve the first ten positions.
Luis d’Antin – Team Principal:
After a three weeks’s stop, the moment to start again has arrived. Unfortunately the beginning of this MotoGP championship wasn’t very good for us; after the good results obtained during the pre-season test, we hoped in something more! We know that during the race everything is different from tests, but we are determined to improve our performance and achieve the prefixed aims. This year, as we always said, the couple Ducati- Bridgestone at our disposal has an high potential, we have to do the best we can to it exploit at the maximum to show we can be very competitive. I hope everything could be perfect in this third round in Istanbul.
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