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Hector Barbera will return to the satellite Pramac Ducati squad at the forthcoming San Marino Grand Prix.

The Spaniard broke his leg six weeks ago in a training accident, and was forced to sit out Laguna Seca as a consequence.

He attempted to make his MotoGP return in the following grand prix at Indianapolis, but in first practice he fell heavily at Turn 16 and had to be stretchered off.

Having also been forced to miss Brno, the 25-year-old says he is ready - even if not completely fit – to return at Misano.

"I'm really excited that I'll ride this weekend on this amazing track," Barbera said. "I have a lot of good memories about Misano, especially from 2009 when I won in the middle class.

"Obviously this year it is a different situation. I didn't ride for six weeks, but I made a big effort to be ready to race this weekend and the only thing I thought about during the rehabilitation was to be back on my Ducati as soon as I could.

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 With nine races and placed on file and the first half of this exciting MotoGP Championship 2012 ended, the pilots of the "Premier Class" are ready to take the second season of intercontinental flight to arrive in California, for the Red Bull U.S. Grand Prix. Unfortunately, However, the Pramac Racing Team, Hector Barbera, was forced to miss the first round in the American calendar, because of his recent accident, during a training session that caused the fracture of tibia and fibula claims. In these Hèctor day is starting rehabilitation immediately after surgery Sunday and, arguably, can not run for at least 4-6 weeks, as confirmed by Dott.Mir, the chief of plastic surgery that has worked. Hèctor will be replaced by its countryman Tony Elias, former pilot with a red and white livery, the Pramac Racing Team. Tony, in fact, during the Green Energy Team in 2008 while riding a Ducati, succeeded in conquering two podiums at Brno and Misano Adriatico. The international debut of the young Spaniard takes place in 2000 in the 125cc World Championship. In subsequent years, Tony has been a constant presence in the world championship. The highlight of his career would reach in 2010, when he became World Champion of the newly formed Moto2. Unemployed for a few days after the split of the consensual contract with Team Aspar Moto2, Tony will have the opportunity to demonstrate its potential, in the beautiful and difficult track at Laguna Seca with the Pramac Ducati Team.  

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Hector Barbera feels he has a good race package underneath him if first practice is any indication for the rest of the weekend...

The Spaniard was ninth fastest on Thursday evening and was the second of the Ducatis behind Nicky Hayden.

Barbera was pleased with his race pace but accepts that he has work to do to get the GP12 where he wants it over a single lap.

“I’m happy with how we are working on during the free practice of today. I had a good feeling with my Ducati and we had a good race pace. We had a few small issues with the front tyre that took quite a lot of time out of our session today. We made several runs to test both the hard and the soft tyres, but the general situation didn’t improve. However we are confident on the work done and we should be able to change the situation.”

Pramac Racing team manager Francesco Guidotti agreed with his rider and feels they have a good base to work from....more here: http://www.thecheckeredflag.co.uk/2012/04/barbera-happy-with-pramac-ducati-race-pace/