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MOTOGP: Difficult Day For Ducati
Nicky Hayden and Valentino Rossi qualified ninth and eleventh, respectively.
Ducati Team's Nicky Hayden (Photo: Ducati Corse)
PROGRAMMING NOTE: The Grand Prix of Malaysia from Sepang will air on SPEED on Sunday, October 22 at 4:00am ET. MotoGP QP will air LIVE on SPEED2 all season long. #MotoGPonSPEED
Qualifying for the Malaysian Grand Prix left several question marks for both Ducati Team riders, who will have to decide during tomorrow’s morning warm-up session which tire to use in the race.
Nicky Hayden, ninth today, will try some changes in order to reduce the chattering that bothered him today.
Valentino Rossi, eleventh, managed to lap at a decent rhythm with the hard tire in qualifying, but having missed the chance to do more than just a few consecutive laps, he’ll try again in tomorrow morning’s twenty minute session before making a final decision.
Nicky Hayden (Ducati Team) 9th (2:01.526)
“It hasn’t been an easy day. In qualifying I lost some time due to a couple of issues I was having with the clutch and rear brake. Then we made a few little changes and got going better, but I had so much chatter that both of my hands are still tingling. I think a lot of guys are dealing with it, but it’s really making it difficult for me in the fast corners. I was able to do an okay lap, but the pace is really fast. I made one little mistake on what turned out to be my best lap, and that probably cost me two or three tenths. We’ve got a couple decisions to make for tomorrow, and we’ll see what we can do.”
Valentino Rossi (Ducati Team) 11th (2:01.783)
“We were going pretty well at a certain point this afternoon, as I was able to do some laps with the hard tire at a low-2:02 pace. We were pretty optimistic for the end, but when we put on the soft, it triggered a lot of chatter and I wasn’t able to improve enough to be further up the grid. Anyway, we’re not too far from Hayden, Barbera, Bautista and Bradl, so we’ll see. The warm-up will be very important for choosing the tires. With the soft, it will certainly be necessary to slow down a lot in the second part of the race because today, it was already sliding a lot after just three or four laps. With the hard tire, in theory we should suffer more at the beginning and then… we don’t know yet. Tomorrow we’ll try to understand. Finally, there’s the rain variable, which could shake everything up. We’ll see what time it comes.”
Qualifying for the Malaysian Grand Prix left several question marks for both Ducati Team riders, who will have to decide during tomorrow’s morning warm-up session which tire to use in the race.
Nicky Hayden, ninth today, will try some changes in order to reduce the chattering that bothered him today.
Valentino Rossi, eleventh, managed to lap at a decent rhythm with the hard tire in qualifying, but having missed the chance to do more than just a few consecutive laps, he’ll try again in tomorrow morning’s twenty minute session before making a final decision.
Nicky Hayden (Ducati Team) 9th (2:01.526)
“It hasn’t been an easy day. In qualifying I lost some time due to a couple of issues I was having with the clutch and rear brake. Then we made a few little changes and got going better, but I had so much chatter that both of my hands are still tingling. I think a lot of guys are dealing with it, but it’s really making it difficult for me in the fast corners. I was able to do an okay lap, but the pace is really fast. I made one little mistake on what turned out to be my best lap, and that probably cost me two or three tenths. We’ve got a couple decisions to make for tomorrow, and we’ll see what we can do.”
Valentino Rossi (Ducati Team) 11th (2:01.783)
“We were going pretty well at a certain point this afternoon, as I was able to do some laps with the hard tire at a low-2:02 pace. We were pretty optimistic for the end, but when we put on the soft, it triggered a lot of chatter and I wasn’t able to improve enough to be further up the grid. Anyway, we’re not too far from Hayden, Barbera, Bautista and Bradl, so we’ll see. The warm-up will be very important for choosing the tires. With the soft, it will certainly be necessary to slow down a lot in the second part of the race because today, it was already sliding a lot after just three or four laps. With the hard tire, in theory we should suffer more at the beginning and then… we don’t know yet. Tomorrow we’ll try to understand. Finally, there’s the rain variable, which could shake everything up. We’ll see what time it comes.”
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