Ducati Team rider Nicky Hayden hopeful of upcoming US Grand Prix at Laguna Seca – MotoGP news
Ducati Team rider Nicky Hayden expressed his views about preparation for the upcoming MotoGP event, the Red Bull U.S. Grand Prix.
The American MotoGP event will take place at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca circuit of Monterey, California.
The American premier class star was joined by fellow riders, Casey Stoner and Dani Pedrosa of Repsol Honda, Jorge Lorenzo of Factory Yamaha team and newcomer Ben Bostrom of the LCR Honda team.
Hayden said, “I have one of the new bikes so thanks to Ducati for making it available to me. At some stage we will definitely do some laps on it and see what I think. There are a few things about it, it has some potential and does some things better, but
on the other hand we’re not here to test.”
Hayden explained the focus of the team that though the testing will be carried out at some point but the priority will remain the race preparations. On the other side teammate Valentino Rossi is equally focusing on the comparative tests between GP11 and
GP11.1.
The American’s team will do its best to do as good as possible in the race. It is an important event for Hayden as being his first home event ahead of the upcoming Indianapolis event. Ben Spies and Colin Edwards are also hopeful of performing well at their
home event.
Hayden’s feels it is beneficial to take risks and develop something better for the season ahead. He is determined to put up a good show for his home crowd and mark the best race yet in the season.
Hayden further said, “Your home GP is something special, but it doesn’t really make you go any faster! It’s not an easy moment for us right now but everybody at Ducati is really working hard and I have my team right behind me. I still think we can have some
good results this year.”
The Ducati team has brought both versions of the Desmosedici, GP11 and GP11.1 to the US. The step has been taken to sort out the lagging issues in the performance of Desmosedici by testing them both side by side for a better understanding.
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