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2007-06-30  Rider claims after Assen race
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As we used to see dominant victories from Stoner this season, start of today's race looked like same scenario will happen again. But this time, Valentino Rossi decided to write his own scenario - The Doctor returns, part first. While waiting for second part, read rider claims after Assen race. Valentino Rossi - race winner This was an incredible race. I think maybe one of the top five of my career! Clearly starting from 11th is quite lucky for us because I've won a few times from that position, including last year at Sachsenring. Last night I didn't sleep so well and I couldn't have imagined that the race could turn out like this, in fact I was really a little bit worried after the qualifying and didn't know what to expect today! Once I got going though I saw that I had a great pace and so I just rode as hard as I could to get past everyone because I knew then that I could come back to Casey. When I finally got there I was quite tired, as were my tyres, plus he was riding very well and it was hard to overtake him, but my M1 worked brilliantly today and in the last few laps I was able to go past and win. I have to say a big thank you to Michelin and to my team, because today our package was brilliant and I was able to ride at the maximum. I'm so happy to win here in Assen, it's a special place for me and this is a great emotion! It was nice to have a special livery here as well, in the past I haven't been so lucky with new liveries but hopefully today has turned that around! Congratulations to Yamaha for 150 wins, I am glad that we could celebrate like this! Casey Stoner - 2nd We got an awesome start, went out to the front and felt quite comfortable doing similar times to what we were doing in practice, though not quite as fast because the wind was worse today. I was getting pushed around in a few of the fast turns and had a couple of front-end loses, so I wasn't willing to push the bike in the braking points. I saw Valentino catching up, I saw him battling on the TV screens around the track. He was chasing me down pretty hard, he had a faster pace. I tried to up my own pace but once he came past I was at my maximum. I felt great the entire race and I can't complain about the result because we only lost five points in the championship and we've only been off the podium twice this year. I'm really happy with the result, so my thanks to the team, after a bit of a spill this morning I think it's been a good recovery. The bike ran out of fuel on the slowdown lap, just because I'd been sliding and spinning a heck of a lot more during the race than I had through practice, so I think the bike was using a lot more fuel. Overall, I'm happy with the way the season's going. I didn't start the year expecting to be leading the championship at this point, and no matter what happens for the rest of the season we're going to be very happy. I'm proud to be a Ducati man. Nicky Hayden - 3rd It’s really nice to get a good result and just have fun – be up there at the front battling with the boys. On the warm-up lap I was thinking this is by far the best my machine has felt all year in any conditions and, even though I’d qualified in 13th, on the line I just remember thinking, “fight like a dog today boy!” Then I just put it in gear and got a really good start. In fact I got such a good start that when I got to the hairpin I almost relaxed and took a breath and Edwards came back past me. I needed that start – the only choice I had was to look for a hole and do something. My pace was pretty good but when Valentino came through he just split and I couldn’t get my pace down to do those few quick laps to stay with him. I thought for a while I might be on for something a bit special and maybe an even better result, but we’ll definitely take this one and try to build on it. A big thanks to my team and all my guys at Repsol Honda who’ve worked really hard for me. It would have been really easy to start giving up on me and pointing the finger but they stayed and worked really hard at the tests – especially the two days after Barcelona – so thanks to them. Thanks to Michelin too, because the tyres worked really well today. We’ve just found a little bit of an improvement with the machine – just those three or four tenths that make the difference between being at the back and being at the front. It’s not like we found two seconds a lap, but just enough so that I can push and have fun. There’s still some work to do and a lot of racing to go but we’ll just try and enjoy this one. Dani Pedrosa - 4th After qualifying in ninth position in the rain yesterday fourth in the race is not too bad, although I have to admit I was actually hoping for better today. I got a good start and was able to get behind Nicky and in the first few laps I was very comfortable. When Nicky made a few overtakes I was able to follow him through and we worked our way up the order. My speed was quite good and I was able to improve on my pace from practice which was encouraging. It’s a shame that in the last six or seven laps I began to struggle with traction again and I just couldn’t keep the gap to Nicky. We’ll have to keep working on this because it’s an issue we’ve had in a few races this year which means we haven’t always achieved the results that looked possible. The machine is getting better but we still have some problems in the latter stages of the races so we’ll have to continue to make a big effort for the next races. John Hopkins - 5th It was definitely a tough race out there today and I feel like I’ve been in a real battle! I really put my heart into that race and worked hard to get that result! I wanted to be on the podium real bad today and I so much wanted to catch Stoner at the start. I was trying so hard, but I was getting some real bad vibrations around some of the turns and was losing about half-a-second through a certain section of the circuit. This meant I had to work even harder throughout the rest of the lap, but I lost a bit of rhythm and Rossi and then both the Hondas got by me. From there I just pushed as hard as I could to make sure I stayed ahead of Edwards. The Bridgestone tyres worked awesome today and the Rizla Suzuki was great again! A big thanks to my crew this weekend because we didn’t have the best of set-up at the start of the weekend, but they improved it tremendously. Now we go on to Germany and I can’t wait to get there and just carry on from where we have left off this weekend – I know we will be on that podium again soon! Colin Edwards - 6th My start wasn't too bad but I got tangled up in a bit of a jumble through the first couple of laps and Pedrosa passed me. Once I got myself sorted I set off with Melandri and Vermeulen in my sights and I thought I'd be able to get past them relatively easily because my pace was pretty good, but I couldn't quite get close enough for a few laps. Eventually I got through them both and really got my head down; I was lapping faster than I have been all weekend and actually at one stage I thought the podium was a possibility. I was pushing pretty hard to be honest and I had a couple of close moments but I didn't want to settle for sixth. Things were going okay until there was a stage of the race when things started to feel not quite 100% and I had to slack off a little. Towards the end I started to catch Hopkins again and started to get back to a good pace but unfortunately by then he'd pulled a couple of seconds from me and I just ran out of time. Congratulations to Valentino, he rode an incredible race today. Alex Barros - 7th Sincerely I’m not very satisfied for my race. I hoped to do something better on this track. I started well, but at the first turn I lost the trajectory and I went off the track a bit, maybe this happened because tyres were still too cold. From that moment my race became more difficult, furthermore I was not very confident to ride, in contrast to what I felt yesterday. Today the big problem was when at the exit of the corners, where my bike widened trajectory a lot, maybe because of the wind; already this morning, during the warm-up, we had this problem, we tried to resolve it, but we weren’t able to work on this perfectly. Now I want to look at the next race in Germany. For me Sachsenring is a good circuit and I hope to be able to get a better result. Alex Hofmann - 8th The eighth position is not too bad, but we looked for something even better. My race start was good despite the clutch giving me little problem that made me nervous; for some minutes, I thought we could see a repeat of what happened in Jerez that prevented me from finishing the race. But this wasn’t my real problem; after some laps, when I had a good race pace, I started to have cramps at my right arm that made it impossible for me to ride as I would like and difficult to overtake under braking, two very important things in this circuit. The things that make me happy is that I had good feeling with my bike all weekend and that the package Ducati-Bridgestone and my Team worked  well.   Anthony West - 9th I was nervous on the line and, as soon as I released the clutch, I knew my start wasn't a good one. A lot of people went past and I couldn't quite get it together for the first few laps, but then I found a good rhythm. Hofmann, Checa and Melandri and I formed a bit of a group and we fought for the rest of the race. We were changing positions a lot, holding each other up, everyone trying everything: it was a bit wild at times. It was a great experience and I learned a lot. I'm really glad I could stay with those guys for the rest of the race and that I didn't drop out of the group. I'm really happy: one of my goals was to be in the top ten this year but I didn't expect it to be at this race! Marco Melandri - 10th I got a good start but the problems we had in practice on dry conditions returned and I couldn’t ride as I wanted. I had so much chattering and it was really hard for me. I gave it my best shot but the end result is disappointing. Carlos Checa - 11th It was great to be fighting for a place in the top ten and I had a great battle with Hofmann, West and Melandri. In the beginning it took some time for my rear tyre to come up to temperature but then I was able to race with the others. I had some fun with Marco passing him once, but I just lacked full confidence on the brakes to push any harder, it was difficult to find a gap on the brakes. But I’m happy for the team that we were able to score some points today. Shinya Nakano - 12th We had a difficult start to the race as I couldn’t get a good rhythm, maybe because I chose a harder tyre than usual. But this meant that towards the end of the race I had a good pace I could catch the group in front of me. The result is still a little disappointing, as I could see the group ahead, and we’re still missing some corner speed and confidence in the front-end, but it has been the same the whole weekend. It was good to see Honda improve at the front and this must be good news for us in the long run and in the second half of the World Championship. Kurtis Roberts - 15th We’d made a lot of changes for the race that we hadn't tested, and I wasn’t happy with the bike until about lap 19. I figured I'd stay out and see what came to us. Luckily a crash handed us a point today when two riders came down. It’s not like we’re in the World Championship hunt, but it’s better to get points for the team than not, and we've got to keep chipping away at it. The problem is only four hours to test at the race, and it keeps raining. I'm looking forward to Laguna, because at least I know the track there. Chris Vermeulen - 16th It was good to start from pole position, and we made big steps in this morning’s warm-up and the bike worked the best it has done all weekend when we started the race. I was doing my quickest lap-times and I felt good on the bike. Unfortunately I didn’t quite have the speed of the front guys, but I was pushing hard. Then all of a sudden I was hit from the rear and I ended up in the gravel. I didn’t know the other rider was there and I certainly don’t think there was room for him! It took me a long time to get back on the track and I managed to finish the race. For the remaining laps I was unable to lean the bike over fully because some parts were damaged in the accident and I wasn’t able to score any points. We will now move on to Germany and hope that no-one else wants to knock me off there - as this seems to be happening a lot to me this season! Loris Capirossi - DNF I had some difficulty with the front tyre early in the race. Then after a few more laps the cutch began to slip and that got worse, so eventually I decided to enter the pits. It's very sad and for sure I'm having a tough time at the moment, but the most important thing is not to give up and to try and improve. Randy de Puniet - DNF I'm disappointed because I got a bad start, losing eight places between the line and the first corner, and I don't know why. I really need to work on it. After that, I passed some riders and got to eighth position, behind Vermeulen. I tried to pass him but the front of my bike hit him and we came off. I'm really sorry for Chris, and disappointed for the team, because it had otherwise been a really good weekend.

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