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Italian GP: Pramac d'Antin Friday notes
A day characterized by the instability of the weather, on the Italian track of Mugello; the Team Pramac d'Antin MotoGP concentrated himself especially on the Dunlop tyres during these first sessions of free practice, but the bad weather didn't ...
Edited: Jun 4, 2006, 12:04 AM
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A day characterized by the instability of the weather, on the Italian track of Mugello; the Team Pramac d'Antin MotoGP concentrated himself especially on the Dunlop tyres during these first sessions of free practice, but the bad weather didn't allow a perfect development of the program that first was predicted. For tomorrow, the whole Team hopes for a dry track, to get the chance to find the best setting for the Ducati Desmosedici GP06 "Sat.". This race is an important appointment, at home, where a lot of sponsors and partners of the Team will be present.
The German Alex Hofmann obtained the 16th general time, while the Spanish Jose Luis Cardoso classified himself 19th.
Tomorrow at 10a.m., there will be another session of free practice, before the single session of qualifying practice reserved to the MotoGP class riders at 2p.m..
ALEX HOFMANN #66 (16th - 1'54.103): "The weather conditions were changing too much and didn't help, they didn't allow us to finish the work we had programmed. We tested a couple of new tyres, but there is a lot of work left to do. For the moment, I'm not much satisfied, I hope that tomorrow the track will be dry during both practice sessions, so we will have the chance to make other test and find the best setting for the race. I hope to conquest a good result in front of all our sponsors, partners and numerous fans and friends. It's our home race and it's important to make a good result here in Italy".
JOSE LUIS CARDOSO #30 (19th - 1'55.637): "Today we concentrated ourselves on the tyres, we had some new slick ones to test. Unfortunately, the weather instability didn't allow us to work in an adequate manner; the meteorological conditions were changing too often. A real pity because we needed to work a lot, the development of the tyres demands a great effort and we hope that the weather will be fine tomorrow, so to be able to ride on a dry track and get the maximum from the last two practice sessions. It's important to find a good set-up that adapts itself to our tyres, for the race on Sunday. I like this track a lot and I really would like to obtain a good result here, in front of all our sponsors".
EMANUELE MARTINELLI - Track Engineer of Alex Hofmann: "Today we tested some new tyres brought us here by DUNLOP, that were slightly better. Unfortunately, we had no much time at our disposal, due to the instability of the weather, and there is a lot of work left to make. So, tomorrow, if the weather conditions will allow it, we will concentrate ourselves on the set-up of the motorcycle: we must work on the frame to adapt it the most possible to the tyres that we will use during the race. We need to make many kilometres, to find more grip, useful to control the motorcycle, that becomes difficult to ride when the tyres consume themselves".
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