Valentino Rossi aims to perform well in 2012 French Grand Prix – MotoGP news
Ducati rider Valentino Rossi has said that he is aiming to perform well in 2012 French Grand Prix which is to be held at Le Mans Circuit where he secured his last podium finish during the preceding season.
The seven-time world champion is struggling in the season so far. In the first race held at Losail Circuit in Qatar, he could only secure 10th place finish. Afterwards, he came 9th in the second race at Jerez Circuit in Spain.
In the last race at Estoril Circuit in Portugal, there was a slight improvement in his pace as he managed to secure 7th place finish. However, the Italian rider has expressed that he is positively looking forward to deliver a better performance in the next
race as compared to the Portugal GP.
“Le Mans is another place where the weather can be challenging, particularly at this time of year, but it's also the track where I had my best result with the Ducati last year,” Rossi said. “We'll see how it goes, but we'd like to do a little better than
we did in Portugal.”
In addition, he said that they will make the best of the efforts so as to enhance the pace of the bike for the approaching race.
Moreover, he said that they faced difficulties in their developmental work as the Estoril test was cancelled due to rain in which they had planned to make the necessary evaluations about the bike.
“It's a shame that we lost the post-race test in Portugal because we would have continued our development work, and as we had very recent data from the race, we could have made some interesting comparisons,” he explained.
On the other hand, Vittoriano Guareschi, the team manager of Ducati said that Le Mans will provide them the opportunity to make assessment regarding the changes they have made in the bike’s setup.
Over and above, he said that they need to bring out the best in them in order to make the substantial advancements and the significant preparations for the forthcoming races so as to make their position stronger in this season’s championship fight.
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