warm-up was wet, but the race was dry, except for a couple of drops of rain a pm laps to go. This has raised the white flag, indicating that the drivers can change patterns of precipitation that wheel, if a deterioration of conditions, but they never did.
After starting strong in the third row, Valentino Rossi and Nicky Hayden are not as competitive as expected. Italians in particular, seemed able to fight for third place in the first half of the race but was just hit by a choice of less than ideal installation and had to settle for fifth place. Took a bit of satisfaction that has reduced the gap at the front, and gained some confidence that the development of the GP11 continues in the right direction.
Valentino Rossi (Marlboro Ducati Marlboro Team) - 5:
"There are pros and cons of today's race. On the positive side, we have reduced the difference between the front and the other in front of me was not so much of the above. On the other hand, I am obviously not satisfied fifth place, because our goal was to do better. To be honest, really could have done today is a bit 'better, but last night we thought the change to try a warm-up and the session was proved to be wet. The change has worked pretty well, so we found ourselves at a crossroads or not use it blindly in the race. We tried it, and that perhaps is a mistake, the bike moved to the corner of the lot mark. It 'was a moving and I did not have enough grip, so I was stuck in the whole competition, and Spies can not attack Dovizioso. Otherwise, I think I might have a slightly better pace, and perhaps fought with them. However, we are not too away, and also what will continue to do.
Nicky Hayden (Ducati Marlboro Team) - 8:
"I thought I could do better than that. In fact, I made a good start and the tires come straight, so the first few laps, I thought we could be in a good result. We used to get tired very quickly and almost immediately I was spinning a lot, especially the long curves. We had some ideas that might help, but we could not try them tomorrow, because it was wet and it was too risky to try in the race. The rest of the bike was really good. When the raindrops come, you definitely have to stay on your guard. I ended up in eighth place, where we qualified, I'm not happy, because normally we have been able to move in the races. It will be a short week, so we need to understand the data and see what we get to Silverstone. "
Filippo Preziosi (Technical Director):
"Obviously, we would have given the valley, he had to fight for victory, but nevertheless, I think today's race shows that we have taken a small step forward. We reduced the gap to the front, which is very positive. It was probably possible to do even better, but we found ourselves in a situation where we only had this wet morning warm-up to try some changes and they work well all over. Nicky has not been able to enjoy all the meetings either, but he likes the recent changes in GP11, we hope that soon we will see him return to his level of last year, while we improve the stages of cycling stages. We work hard in all areas of the bike, and the direction we're after is beginning to bear fruit. We are already better than we were in winter testing, but we are not yet mature, Valentino and Nicky deserves. "
