Rossi: "We made a step forward"

Ninth, but moderately optimistic: Valentino Rossi makes the best of a bad luck and try to find the positives in the result of a dismal qualifying | G. Zamagni, Barcelona

MONTMELO '- Nono, but moderately optimistic: Valentino Rossi makes the best of a bad luck and try to find the positives in the result of a qualification depressing, but better than before in the posting (0 "880) and with the awareness of having a race pace is not so bad. "There 's been a little better - is his analysis - we managed to take a step forward and be positioned in its fastest.

Then in the afternoon, we made ​​another small change and I could play a decent round, winning the third row, which was our realistic goal. I could do instead of the seventh ninth, but it would have changed little: my race pace is not bad, are fairly constant, I hope to beat the riders departing on me in the third row (Hayden and Bradl, NDA).

If it rains it certainly better , but it could also be more positive if it will be cooler, as expected, suffer much from the heat. It will be important as well - as I usually can with Ducati - and then make up some places: our potential is to do a race like in Portugal (seventh, NDA) .

Today I went back to the fork in carbon, aluminum because that takes time to put in place we will do tests on Monday. Compared to the lap, the race pace is closer to the first six, but the black Yamaha (Crutchlow and Dovizioso, NDA) are faster than me in the first 5-6 rounds: then, more or less the same as we go, but at that point it becomes difficult to recover. To fight for the podium we lack, in general, half a second step , a gap difficult to fill, we continue to struggle to make the bike turn. We need to work on electronics and engine, but I do not expect to find that some half a second between each test and the other ".

Then, Rossi answers a question about the upcoming season. " It 'early to talk of 2013, there are still many races and my thought right now is just to go fast to the Ducati. As regards a possible reduction of recruitment for the crisis, is absolutely not a problem in recent years I have earned enough ... ".

Giovanni Zamagni
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