(Translated from Italian) 

With 2011 almost in the can, begins the countdown to the start of the 2012 season, which will be inaugurated by the test in Malaysia on January 31. On that date, the eyes will once again all about Rossi, as it happened a year ago. But if ten months ago had the curiosity to see the Doctor in red dress for the first time in just over 30 days will be to know if Valentino will be able to get out of the quicksand in which they are trapped throughout the sampled .

At Borgo Panigale engineers have not gone on vacation and that we will see in Sepang will be the "true" GP12, different from the first prototype took to the track in Valencia after the last race of the season . If it is true that you do not win the championship in the winter, it is undeniable that the values ​​embodied in the tests reflect those of the disastrous season and another year would be a nightmare that nobody wants to be faced.

Waiting to find the new creature by Filippo Preziosi, were the same colleagues Rossi to overreach on the competitiveness of the champion in 2012. Among his most avid supporters turned out, surprisingly, Jorge Lorenzo , which puts it unquestionably among the pretenders to the title . " Valentino can get back to winning at any time, has the talent and speed to do it "did not hesitate to affirm. On the other side of the fence however is Andrea Dovizioso, skeptical of a sudden miracle , " will improve the Ducati, but I do not think the point to play for the World . "

Stoner and Pedrosa have also said their feelings about the season of the Doctor, the only driver to be able to attract all the attention on himself, whether win or lose. Casey Stoner has not given up, in an interview with MCN to launch a little dig at his rival and chief mechanic Jeremy Burgess: " The reason this has not been a good season has a lot to do with Valentine and Jeremy and the criticisms that we had turned on the fact that we were not able to develop motion and that we would not know what to do. Certainly they are ten times more confused than we were on our way to go . In this season, although they had everything they wanted, did not improve anything. At the end we knew what path to follow, but we did not have the resources to do it, but now they have there but the are still going in the right direction . "

The Australian does not seem so amongst those who expect a fine start Rossi on top, while Dani Pedrosa , on pages Sport.es , proved to be much more diplomatic: " many have expressed their opinion on this topic and no one better than Rossi knows what happened, because it has adapted to the Ducati Stoner has been able to do. The first thing that comes to mind, without having tested the Ducati, is that after many years of riding Japanese bikes head Rossi was not ready for a change of this magnitude, so radical . "

The Spaniard seems to have hit a very important point, so that the next prototype Ducati will be the most "Japanese" of all the Desmosedici ever designed . The aluminum perimeter frame is the most obvious of revolutions made, but it is said that the hull does not conceal some other big news, motor in the first place. What is certain is that once again, the king and queen, from the media point of view, they will be the Championship, Red and Red, waiting to know if there will be two rulers with or without a crown .