Ductalk

 " 2013 is looking good to me."

Valentino Rossi's second place finish at Misano was probably the best moment Vittoriano Guareschi has had in the last two years. The Ducati team manager is now much more optimistic about the road ahead: "I'm sure that the direction taken with the latest updates is the right one," the Italian affirmed, even if Rossi and Hayden struggled today in qualifying.

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(translated from Italian)

There is no sign of concern in the voice of Vittoriano Guareschi, while analyzing the first day of testing the Ducati on the track at Sepang . The eighth time, Valentino Rossi, 1 "484 the gap to Stoner, is due to a series of unfortunate coincidences and not a regression of the GP12. " We are serene , the level of the bike is always that of the previous tests, because today we were not able to try almost anything new , "notes the team manager.
What has happened?
" This morning Valentine came to the track early, but the conditions were very bad and there was no grip and ran 3 seconds slower than references in previous tests. The situation has gradually improved, but we decided to hold the second rubber for the afternoon, so Smith has done his best time with a tire which had already completed 22 laps . "
It was not possible to use the harder tire?
" I know that has tried unsuccessfully Dovizioso and Franco Battaini has also mounted in the morning to do the shake down the bike to Nicky, but did not provide sufficient grip is useless . "
Then the rain ruined the plans.
" Yes, it rained very strong and then we took the opportunity to find out how's the GP12 in the wet. Valentino came out with the rain and said that the feelings are very similar to those on GP11 , a bike that was going on very well ' water. We started to try some adjustment, but then the track dried and the track was half wet and half wet pointless to do other experiments , it would only be dangerous . "
The good news is that tomorrow you will have 4 tires available.

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Vittoriano Guareschi didn't try to hide his dissatisfaction with Valentino Rossi being just 10th fastest at the end of Sepang testing, but he also knows that the Italian rider worked extremely hard over the last three days: "He completed an enormous workload - the Ducati team manager revealed - testing a large number of different setups and solutions. It's normal that a rider wouldn't achieve maximum performance in this situation, when their priority isn't outright speed, unless they have a bit of luck."

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