Ducati Team rider Valentino Rossi will be fit for the Iveco Australian Grand Prix – MotoGP news
Ducati Team has confirmed that its factory rider Valentino Rossi will be fully fit for the upcoming Iveco Australian Grand Prix taking place at Phillip Island.
The Italian veteran faced a hard crash during the last MotoGP event, Grand Prix of Japan at Twin Ring Motegi. Rossi experienced a severe blow to his left hand from the crash.
He was struck by a sequence of hits initiated by contact with Jorge Lorenzo and then bounced back into Ben Spies. After hitting Spies, he lost control of the handlebars and slid into the gravel, while forcing Spies to run off the track.
The incident caused Rossi a hairline fracture on the artificial joint in his left hand’s little finger. The artificial joint was placed in his finger after the crash at Assen in the 1995 season.
Rossi experienced severe pain and swelling which forced him to miss the last test day for Desmosedici GP12. Instead, Nicky Hayden had to return from his home town back to Jerez.
The sidelined Rossi rested and Hayden conducted the eighth and final test day of the season. It has not yet been revealed that Hayden tested the full deltabox frame made by FTR or the first version aluminium chassis.
Vittoriano Guareschi talked to Motorcyclenews.com and said, “We tried one evolution of the current frame and in this moment this is not the last solution. We want to understand what we need and maybe the last solution is possible to see in Valencia, and
maybe this is not the finished solution. The shape of the frame is a little bit different but not like a deltabox.”
However, it is confirmed that Rossi has tested the complete aluminium Deltabox frame developed by Britain-based chassis company FTR. Still after the test Vittoriano Guareschi and Rossi deny the test of twin spar chassis.
The Ducati team is focused to complete the GP12 testing ahead of the official Valencia test following the 2010 event.
In order to continuously conduct the GP12 testing, Ducati has also called in 2011 WSBK Champion Carlos Checa to test the 2012 MotoGP prototype.
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