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Well,… Qualifying Practice MotoGP Losail berakhir sudah,… Valentino Rossi berada di posisi ke 12… !!! Ini artinya urutan terbontot untuk motor dari pabrikan …!!! Motor Ducati Desmosedici GP12 sendiri cukup bagus… lha wong Nicky Hayden berada di posisi ke 5 kok … dan berhak di row ke 2 pada waktu race nanti …!!! Rossi nggak nemu setup yang tepat… begitu kilahnya … padahal mekanik hanya merubah sedikit setup dari ‘base’ hari Jumat kemaren …!!! Rossi nggak nemu feeling Desmosedici nya… selain persoalan getar juga mengalami understeer …!!!

Valentino Rossi (Ducati Team) 12th (1:56.813)

“Yesterday was nothing fantastic but a lot better, especially with the used tyre, so my goal was to qualify on the second row. I’m very far from that target though, as the problems that we had before were worse. It’s very strange because we only made some small changes from yesterday, but the feeling was very different. After that we returned to yesterday’s setting and I went a little bit faster, but it wasn’t enough to significantly improve the result. I’m not sure what to expect for the race, but obviously, I hope to do better. Nicky made a different setup choice than ours and did a good session with both tyres, so now we’ll also look at his data and try to do better.”

Rossi coba balik lageee ke setup hari Jumat … memang sedikit lebih cepat… namun tidak laaagh cukup untuk mengangkat catatan waktu… !!! Ia sudah tertinggal dan harus puas berada di posisi paling belakang dari sesama pembalap Ducati …!!! Langkah yang akan dilakukan Rossi adalah mempelajari setup Nicky Hayden… dan kemungkinan besar menggunakan setup Hayden …!!! Memang kemaren,.. Hayden mensetup motornya agak beda… dan hasilnya cukup bagus… dan ia merasa Desmodesici GP12 adalah motor paling kencang yang ia kendarai …!!! Last,.. apakah Rossi akan bisa lebih baik… mungkin bisa kita lihat dulu pada saat sessi warm up … !!! 😀