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Well,… race MotoGP di Catalunya telah berakhir, dan Valentino Rossi berada pada posisi ke 5 … !!! Rossi sebenernya kurang begitu puas… andai saja setup motor nya bisa optimal… tentu saja ia berani fight minimal untuk memperebutkan tempat ke 3 … melawan Dovizioso atau Spies …!!! Motornya ‘goyang’ pada saat memasuki tikungan .. sliding terus.. kehilangan grip dan hal ini terjadi sepanjang race… !!! 😀

There are good and bad aspects to today’s race. On the positive side, we reduced the gap to the front, and the others in front of me weren’t so far ahead. On the other hand, I’m obviously not happy with fifth place, because our goal was to do better than that. To tell the truth, we really could have done a little better today but last night we thought of a change to try in the warm-up and the session turned out to be wet. The change worked quite well, so we found ourselves at a crossroads as to whether or not to blindly use it in the race. We tried it, and that may have been a mistake because the bike moved a lot on corner entry. It was sliding, and I didn’t have enough grip, so I was stuck for the whole race, unable to attack Dovizioso and Spies. Otherwise, I think I could have had a slightly better pace and perhaps battled with them. Anyway, we’re not too far off, and we’re working well, which we need to continue doing. The championship is long and we’re still fully focused on both the GP11 and 2012, and we have no intention of backing off.”

Walaupun demikian… Rossi cukup senang juga… bahwa ‘gap’ antara motornya dengan motor Honda atau Yamaha… agak berkurang ketimbang race-race sebelumnya …!!! Pihak Ducati pun sebenernya ingin memberikan apa yang terbaik untuk Rossi… agar ia bisa ‘fight’ dengan para riderz dari pabrikan lain … namun kelihatannya segala nya masih perlu proses …!!!

Last,… race masih panjang… baik Rossi maupun Ducati masih optimis… melakukan pembenahan baik pada Ducati GP11 maupun persiapan GP12, dimana regulasinya menggunakan engine 1000cc …!!! Apakah Ducati GP11 bisa segera ‘pulih’ dan memberikan perlawanan kepada Honda ataupun Yamaha… yaaagh kita tengok saja pada race selanjutnya …!!! 😀