GP de catalogne 2007

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Dani Pedrosa
Position: 3rd - Best lap: 1m 43.376s – World Championship position – 98 pts

Front tyre: 16.0" hard compound Michelin
Rear tyre: 16.5" hard compound Michelin

“Third is OK and I finished right with the leaders so I’m happy for that. It was difficult to keep up with Casey and Valentino, especially in the middle of the race, but with 10 laps remaining I was able to get close again. I was actually enjoying watching them because they weren’t overtaking each other in typical places and that’s why I wanted to get in there too! However, in one part of the track I was losing a lot and I needed the other part of the track to recover, so all the time I was right there with them, but I couldn’t fight with them. I just had to wait until the last laps and hope I could find something but I wasn’t quite close enough. I want to say thank you to all the crowd who came this weekend because they gave me a lot of support and created a great atmosphere. I’ve had some good results in recent races and the performance is steadily getting better so I hope to keep improving for the next races.”

Nicky Hayden

Position: 11th - Best lap: 1m 43.987s – World Championship position 11th – 41 pts

Front tyre: 16.0" hard compound Michelin
Rear tyre: 16.5" hard compound Michelin

“I felt pretty good going into the race and through this weekend I’d been getting faster and faster in every session and going up a few places. I got a decent start in the race and I was looking to get a better result here because my pace in the warm-up was reasonable too. The race was a tough one though. Somewhere along the way the rear tyre became unbalanced and started to vibrate and chatter really badly – especially in the last five or ten laps I could hardly ride it. After that I just started losing positions and it wasn’t a fun race because it was hard to tip into any of the corners. We didn’t need that problem today so we’ll just have to look into why it happened and move on to the next race at Donington.”



John Hopkins:

“I’ve got to that point where I am now disappointed not to be on the podium, obviously I’m happy to be in the top five but I want more! It was a tough race and I held in there with the first three for as long as I could, but with about eight laps to go I started to lose a bit of pace and as hard as I tried I was losing that little bit more each lap - so I had to settle for fourth place. We’re really happy with the Suzuki and Bridgestone tyre package this season and the tyres are working a lot better than they did last year - so no complaints there at all. Now we have a couple of days testing here and I am looking forward to bettering my times and then moving on to the next two tracks that I think will really suit the GSV-R800. I am sure that we will soon have a good chance of getting on the podium every weekend!”

Chris Vermeulen:

“I got a reasonable start from the fourth row, but then got boxed in a bit and dropped back a couple of places. I had a tough fight with Alex Barros early on and found it really hard to get past his Ducati - as it’s pretty quick in a straight line! I got through the field and the bike felt very good and consistent right till the end. I had a battle with Loris Capirossi on the last lap, and although I got past him he just went by me on the next straight. Seventh place from 11th is not too bad, and we now have lots of work to do in the next couple of days to make sure we are stronger for Donington!”

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Randy De Puniet

5th Position
"Even though now it is difficult for me to breath, I am really happy about what I did today. Not only because I got the best MotoGP result of my career so far, but because I did it regardless of my physical condition. I already knew it was going to be hard and the knee, the shoulder and the heat didn’t make it easy. I did a regular start and I lost a couple of positions and one more when Elias passed me after a fright in La Caixa turn. I was sixth after the first lap but I was certain my bike was much better than his. I don’t know what happened but a few laps later he touched my knee and my handlebar and, even though it didn’t take much to overtook him that made me lose contact with the front guys. I kept pushing and rode a good rhythm but they were definitely faster. We did a good job this weekend and my Ninja ZX-RR and my Bridgestone tyres worked so well today. I was completely focussed on my lap time, my braking points… At the end, Capirossi was coming closer but I managed to maintain a distance and got this fifth position that has a really good taste. I would like to thank everybody, the team, Kawasaki, Bridgestone, for helping me make this race a success. I hope that we can now build on this result."

MARCO MELANDRI (9th in the race, 4th in the championship on 75 points): "We're going through a rough patch. The team are giving their best, working hard, but the results just aren't coming. The bike doesn't give me any confidence and I can't ride it how I want. I'm really disappointed. We've struggled with the front end all weekend and after a few laps I lost confidence in it - it was skipping around and it was really hard to ride. We'll have to make some drastic changes."

TONI ELIAS (DNF , 9th in the championship on 45 points): "I'm really disappointed because I was having a good race. I got a good start and it looked like 5th place was a real possibility until the engine packed up on the 14th lap. These things happen in racing but I'm really disappointed because this was my home race in front of all my fans."

Alex Barros (43’41.769 – 8° classified): “I’m satisfied for my final result, I think I was good in this race. For us this week-end it hasn’t been very easy, we had some difficulties during the two days before the race, so this morning after the warm-up we decided to change setting but in the end we understood that it was better to come back and use the same set-up we had yesterday. Fortunately I made a good start, but at the first turn, I made a mistake and I lost some positions. Today, for me, the race was very hard, in the first part I had difficulties to recover position and in the second part I had some difficulties with the front. Unfortunately it didn’t feel as we expected and we maybe hoped for a bit more from this race; anyway, the thing that makes me satisfied is that I pushed strongly from the beginning to the end, fighting for the eighth position as if it were a podium. I have deep motivation and I hope to be faster in the next race.”


Alex Hofmann(43’57.841 – 13° classified): “I’m not satisfied, because this race wasn’t as I had hoped for. I don’t know the real reason because after the warm-up in the morning I was confident to do a good race. When I started, I knew immediately that I didn’t have the right feeling with the bike. I did not make a good start, furthermore I lost a lot in acceleration and I couldn’t be fast as I wanted. During the race I made some overtaking, but the moves weren’t enough to obtain a good end result. I’m very displeased with the race, especially because I wanted to be good for all the many fans who came here today. Tomorrow we will spend one day more in Spain to do some tests, I hope to be able to find the right solution for the next race.”

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CHECA: “This is a difficult moment for me, I cannot remember when I had a worse feeling in a race and this is not the result I wanted. Everyone in the LCR team has worked very hard over the weekend but we could just not find the balance or feeling that gave me any confidence to push. It is not fun to race like this but now we must look forward and hope the situation can improve.”


Shinya Nakano – Rider, KONICA MINOLTA Honda (15th position)
“It was a very frustrating and difficult race for me. I said yesterday that I had a good feeling in hot conditions but we just didn’t have that today for some reason. When I pushed hard the bike would run wide in the corners. I’m looking forward to tomorrow and having more time out on the track so we will be working hard again to make more improvements. This is important as we still have a further two races to come this month.”

KENNY ROBERTS Jr - 16th position
Kurtis did really good. He was much quicker than I was in the beginning of the race and I was squaring off all the corners and I couldn't get any grip to stay with them guys. And then my bike...the power started coming around, the grip level started getting closer front and rear.
Just was trying everything I could to get up with him. Once I got within a second, from then on I was just trying to pass him, if he made a mistake at all. And he didn't make a mistake, didn't get off line. He was braking hard, going through the corner the same speed as me, but
accelerating smoother, because I was trying to get a jump on him, so I would just spin. And I finally was able to get a draft off him down the front straight. And then I concentrated on Carlos (Checa) ahead and then he had something go wrong with his tire or bike.

KURTIS ROBERTS - 18th position
Yeah, it was the first time I've ever been in front of Kenny. That probably screwed me up more than anything, because I thought I heard him back there. But what really screwed me up halfway through the race, just for like a lap-I thought he was right behind me the whole race-and it was plus 1.6 seconds. Because I'd see his lap times and I wasn't paying that much attention to the lap board at first. And I would see he'd have a faster one than me. I figured he'd be right behind me. And then he kind of caught me off guard. And trying to catch (Carlos) Checa, I started rushing everything a bit. I just didn't have any grip from the start. I was just hung out to dry, just sliding the thing everywhere. I knew I was catching Checa, but Kenny, when he passed me, I thought I screwed up. I didn't even realize he was towing me along that good. But it was fun. When you watch Little Kenny, he's Mister No Mistake and I make a lot of mistakes.

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Makoto TAMADA : « Je suis assez content de ma course car j’ai pu tenir un bon rythme grâce à notre nouveau pneu arrière.

De son côté, le pneu avant s’est révélé performant et constant, avec un bon retour d’information au guidon. »

Sylvain GUINTOLI : « J’ai pris un mauvais départ, mais me suis rattrapé par un bon début de course.

Les pneus se sont montrés très constants jusqu’à la mi-course, par contre par la suite, j’ai connu du drible qui m’a retardé. Nous devons donc maintenant identifier sa provenance.

De ce fait, je n’ai pas pu m’accrocher à Tamada ni Hofmann quand ils m’ont doublé... Mais le bilan est malgré tout positif puisque je marque des points de façon incessante depuis le début de l’année pour ma première saison dans la catégorie reine. »

[coconut]

Fan de Rossi surement, en attendant j'ai adoré et j'en redemande!!
Je me met a la place de rossi, je préfère me faire battre avec une baston comme celle la que par une panne mecanique ou un pneu arraché.
Stoner a un leger avantage en ligne droite c'est vrai mais il a été aussi très fort dans le sinueu, combien de fois on a vibré qd rossi prend des trajectoires de ouf parceque le petit veut faire son trou. Je dirais pas que Rossi est tombé sur plus fort que lui mais on en esperait pas tant avec cette baston de fous.

Je vous dis que ça, si Vale perd le titre face à un gamin comme ça ce sera merité parcequ'on aspire tous à la même chose (je pense..) Que le meilleur gagne!!

[Valentino46]

Envoyé par pool

je suis tout a fait d'accord avec toi et je trouve meme que si stoner double facilement rossi dans la ligne droite c'est peu etre par ce qu'il sortait mieux du dernier virage en etant deja dans les pot de rossi alors que a l'inverse rossi devait deja combler un petit ecart avant de prendre l'aspi.

tout faux mon cher Pool, regarde bien le dernier virage et tu verras que Valé reprend environ 5-6m rien qu'en sortant mieux du dernier virage...c'est très flagran à l'entré du dernier tour

[medol]

Quel GP de malades!!!surtout les 5 derniers tours,avec Stoner,Rossi,Pedrosa devant son public...Si on pourrait avoir ça tous les GP,ce serait formidable!

[totolamoto]

bon je croyais que c'était fini de dire que tel ou tel pilote ne mérite pas sa place! la course c'est la course! les résultats sont les résultats point final!

je trouve que l'on a eu une superbe course motogp et j'en redemande! très content pour Capirossi il était bien dans le coup d'ailleurs heureusement pour Randy qu'il n'y avait pas 2 ou 3 tours de plus! superbe baston devant dommage que Pédrosa n'ait pas été si incisif surtout devant son public j'ai l'impression qu'il a peur de refaire l'erreur d'Estoril.

superbe course 125 ça change de voir 2 ktm sur le podium mais vraiment dégouté pour Pasini!

dommage qu'il ny ait pas eu autant de bagarre en deux et demie.

[Big Horn]

+1 (Vale46) Rossi était vraiment impressionnant dans ce dernier virage qui précede la ligne droite,dans les autres on voyait sa limite car lorsqu'il poussait plus fort çà élargissait.
Hopkins est un sacré freineur aussi ,et Pedrosa est fort car la RCV il arrive à en tirer un max.

[mickey]

aujourdhui ils sont réstés pour faire des test , anthony west roule pour kawa , pitt pour yamaha , itoh pour ducat et je crois aoki pour suz , tous le monde travaille dur .les motos vont evoluer rapidement et nous on va avoir encore plus de bataille.