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2007-07-08 Ducati confident in good result at Sachsenring
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 The Ducati Marlboro Team commences the second half of the 2007 MotoGP
season at the Sachsenring with the remarkable Casey Stoner leading the
riders' World Championship on five wins and two further podium places
from the first nine GPs. Team-mate Loris Capirossi has had a less lucky
run of races in recent weeks and currently holds ninth place in the
points chase, but the Bologna-based squad still heads the teams'
championship, with Ducati also ahead in the constructors' points table.
The German Grand Prix follows a busy sequence of four races over five
weekends and is immediately succeeded by the United States GP on July
22. MotoGP then gets a well-deserved four-week break before the Czech
GP on August 19.
Livio Suppo, Ducati MotoGP project director
We start the second half of the
season still leading the championship and very much looking forward to
the next nine races. During this period there are several circuits that
suit our machine package, so that is a positive for us. The Sachsenring
is quite a strange circuit, quite tight in places and with no big
straights, but we have always gone quite well there, so we go into this
race feeling fairly confident of a good result.
Casey Stoner:
Every race we are still learning
about the set-up of the bike, especially when we go to different types
of circuit. The Ducati and the Bridgestones have been working well at
pretty much every circuit, so when we get to Germany we'll just
concentrate and keep doing what we've been doing. I got my first-ever
podium at the Sachsenring, the track is fun on a 125 but it's a little
bit more difficult to negotiate some of those turns on a MotoGP bike.
You definitely need good side grip because through a lot of those long
corners you need to keep the gas open as long as possible. You also
need to get your head around those uphill and downhill corners - coming
down the hill into those fast lefts gets a bit scary, you have to make
sure your suspension doesn't bottom out, then you head back up the hill
and then down again. As you come over the top at turn 12 the rear gets
very light and wants to wriggle around, so you really need some
traction over the top there.
Loris Capirossi:
I really like the Sachsenring, even
if it always feels a little strange on a MotoGP bike, because there are
so many slow and tight corners. I think the track will be more fun on
the 800 than it was on the 990 because the new bikes are a bit more
nimble, so they are a bit faster into the corners and through the
corners. The first part is too slow, but from turn six or seven it gets
quite interesting. Turn 12 is a very exciting corner, because it's
blind and you throw the bike in there at over 200 km/h, then you go
steeply downhill on the run to turn 13. We go into this race after a
couple of difficult weekends at Donington and Assen. But this is
racing, sometimes things don't go your way and the only answer is to
keep cool and keep working to make things better. We have been making
some improvements to the bike over the last few races but so far we
haven't been able to turn these improvements into a good result.
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