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MotoGP Results Free Practice – GP of Italy

Sandra — Fri, 29 May 2009 18:04:35 +0000

1. Jorge Lorenzo SPA Fiat Yamaha Team 1′49.870
2. Valentino Rossi ITA Fiat Yamaha Team 1′50.065
3. Casey Stoner AUS Ducati Marlboro Team 1′50.144
4. Dani Pedrosa SPA Repsol Honda Team 1′50.808
5. Colin Edwards USA Monster Yamaha Tech 3 1′50.891
6. Alex de Angelis RSM San Carlo Honda Gresini 1′50.898
7. Loris Capirossi ITA Rizla Suzuki MotoGP 1′51.007
8. Randy de Puniet FRA LCR Honda MotoGP 1′51.030
9. Andrea Dovizioso ITA Repsol Honda Team 1′51.206
10. Marco Melandri ITA Hayate Racing Team 1′51.359
11. James Toseland GBR Monster Yamaha Tech 3 1′51.401
12. Toni Elias SPA San Carlo Honda Gresini 1′51.823
13. Chris Vermeulen AUS Rizla Suzuki MotoGP 1′51.994
14. Niccolo Canepa ITA Pramac Racing 1′52.319
15. Nicky Hayden USA Ducati Marlboro Team 1′52.403
16. Yuki Takahashi JPN Scot Racing Team MotoGP 1′52.607
17. Mika Kallio FIN Pramac Racing 1′52.619

Nicky Hayden runs into difficulties in Mugello

Sandra — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 20:44:53 +0000

Nicky Hayden had high hopes of a strong race following a promising performance in morning warm-up but the American ran into difficulties and came home an unlucky 13th. After Mugello the MotoGP action switches to Spain for the following weekend’s Catalan GP outside Barcelona. This is MotoGP’s busiest period with six races over eight weekends.

Nicky Hayden:

“This morning we made a nice step, we made a suspension adjustment and the bike felt a lot better, so we had a pretty good pace. We were certainly unlucky in the race. I got an awesome start, felt pretty good, but it was clear from the beginning that we had a problem.

Guys started coming past and there was nothing I could do, there was no way to defend. So I just tried to get to the finish and get a couple of points. They’re checking the data now to see exactly what happened.

Like I said, we were quite unlucky, I knew we didn’t have Rossi’s pace this morning, but we had enough pace to be in there, to be quite competitive. I don’t know yet which engine I’ll be using next weekend. To be honest, I’ve been concentrating on this race, so I haven’t thought about it yet.”

MotoGP Race Results – GP of Italy

Sandra — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 12:50:27 +0000

1. Valentino Rossi ITA Fiat Yamaha Team (B) 25 points
2. Casey Stoner AUS Ducati Marlboro Team (B) 20 points
3. Dani Pedrosa SPA Repsol Honda Team (M) 16 points
4. Alex de Angelis RSM San Carlo Honda Gresini (B) 13 points
5. Colin Edwards USA Tech 3 Yamaha (M) 11 points
6. James Toseland GBR Tech 3 Yamaha (M) 10 points
7. Loris Capirossi ITA Rizla Suzuki MotoGP (B) 9 points
8. Andrea Dovizioso ITA JiR Team Scot MotoGP (M) 8 points
9. Shinya Nakano JPN San Carlo Honda Gresini (B) 7 points
10. Chris Vermeulen AUS Rizla Suzuki MotoGP (B) 6 points
11. Sylvain Guintoli FRA Alice Team (B) 5 points
12. Toni Elias SPA Alice Team (B) 4 points
13. Nicky Hayden USA Repsol Honda Team (M) 3 points
14. Tady Okada JPN Repsol Honda Team (M) 2 points
15. Anthony West AUS Kawasaki Racing Team (B)

DNF

Marco Melandri ITA Ducati Marlboro Team (B)
Randy de Puniet FRA LCR Honda MotoGP (M)
John Hopkins USA Kawasaki Racing Team (B)
Jorge Lorenzo SPA Fiat Yamaha Team (M)

Nicky Hayden: It’s going to be a hard one tomorrow

Sandra — Sat, 31 May 2008 20:27:35 +0000

Nicky Hayden went well today with sixth best time in qualifying, only half a second off pole. After yesterday’s rain-lashed first day of practice there was further rainfall this morning, so qualifying was the first fully dry session of the weekend. Race tyre selection will thus be a more than usually complicated affair, with Repsol Honda engineers working closely with Michelin technicians to choose the best tyres for tomorrow’s race. Despite the lack of dry-track time the pace was red hot, with pole position eight tenths faster than the previous best Mugello pole, set by a 990cc MotoGP bike in 2006.

Nicky Hayden, 6th fastest, 1m 48.666s

“We’ve basically only had one completely dry session all weekend – so we’ve tried out a lot of tyres: rains, intermediates and qualifiers and just a couple of race tyres. So that’s certainly a big issue for tomorrow, we don’t know a lot about what race tyres to run, so we’ll definitely let Michelin help us a little there. We made a bit of progress this afternoon and ended up on the second row. I’m not going to fool myself though, it’s certainly going to be a hard one tomorrow, some guys going really quick. It’d be nice to improve in warm-up, we’ve got some work to do to try and get closer to the front. Then we’ll just try to get a start and go for it.”

MotoGP Results Qualifying Session – GP of Italy

Sandra — Sat, 31 May 2008 13:15:10 +0000

1. Valentino Rossi ITA Fiat Yamaha Team (B) 1′48.130
2. Dani Pedrosa SPA Repsol Honda Team (M) 1′48.297
3. Loris Capirossi ITA Rizla Suzuki MotoGP (B) 1′48.313
4. Casey Stoner AUS Ducati Marlboro Team (B) 1′48.375
5. Colin Edwards USA Tech 3 Yamaha (M) 1′48.383
6. Nicky Hayden USA Repsol Honda Team (M) 1′48.666
7. Jorge Lorenzo SPA Fiat Yamaha Team (M) 1′48.905
8. James Toseland GBR Tech 3 Yamaha (M) 1′49.025
9. Shinya Nakano JPN San Carlo Honda Gresini (B) 1′49.095
10. Alex de Angelis RSM San Carlo Honda Gresini (B) 1′49.145
11. Chris Vermeulen AUS Rizla Suzuki MotoGP (B) 1′49.220
12. Randy de Puniet FRA LCR Honda MotoGP (M) 1′49.246
13. Andrea Dovizioso ITA JiR Team Scot MotoGP (M) 1′49.565
14. John Hopkins USA Kawasaki Racing Team (B) 1′49.601
15. Tady Okada JPN Repsol Honda Team (M) 1′49.829
16. Toni Elias SPA Alice Team (B) 1′49.851
17. Sylvain Guintoli FRA Alice Team (B) 1′50.275
18. Marco Melandri ITA Ducati Marlboro Team (B) 1′50.465
19. Anthony West AUS Kawasaki Racing Team (B) 1′50.889

Nicky Hayden 12th fastest in Free Practice

Sandra — Fri, 30 May 2008 21:20:47 +0000

Inclement weather and changeable track conditions dominated today’s proceedings at Mugello, riders contending with a damp track this morning and heavy rainfall this afternoon. Repsol Honda rider Nicky Hayden excelled in the conditions, the American leading the morning session at one point and ending the afternoon outing second fastest. On combined session times Hayden was 12th overall while team-mate Dani Pedrosa was eighth and wild card rider Tadayuki Okada 17th.

Nicky Hayden, 12th fastest, 1m 59.436s

“Everything went pretty smooth today apart from the weather. This morning right at the end it didn’t look good because we were on wets and the guys on slicks took a lot of time out of us, but earlier when it was raining, we were on top with not long to go.

This afternoon at the beginning things weren’t great, we were maybe a little bit too hard on set-up, then when the heavy rain stopped the tyres and bike worked better. We tried a few things for the rain but we ended up with the bike exactly how it was when we got it off the truck and that seems the best set-up for us.

I know it’s only in the wet, but the way things went at Le Mans, it’s certainly a bit more fun when you’re near the front and competitive, whether it’s wet or dry or snowing or whatever. If it’s dry tomorrow it’ll be really important to make the most of the two hours for the race on Sunday.”