"I cannot say I am happy with this test and speaking honestly I expected to be faster here" - Valentino Rossi.
Having been just ninth fastest on the opening night of the Qatar test, Valentino Rossihad warned that he and his team 'must do better' on Friday.
However, with just a week to go before the 2008 season opener, the Italian instead concluded his pre-season preparations by slipping one further position and lapping a full 1.7secs from the top.
Rossi and the side of the Fiat Yamaha garage took a wrong turn on tyre selection and - after then 'abandoning' their initial choice - were left without enough time to complete a race simulation.
"I cannot say I am happy with this test and speaking honestly I expected to be faster here," confirmed Rossi. "Unfortunately we wasted some time working on the set-up of the bike to try to adapt it to some tyres that we then decided to abandon.
"Once we'd made this decision we worked with different tyres and things improved a bit, but the test was nearly over and we didn't have enough time to complete all the work we wanted to do. Because of this I did not do a race simulation, but I was able to make two good runs," he explained.
The Doctor thus ended the inaugural night test with a best lap of 1min 56.256secs, compared with 1min 54.552secs for pace setting rookie team-mate Jorge Lorenzo and a 1min 55.485secs for top Bridgestone rider Casey Stoner (fifth).
"Unfortunately [there] wasn't enough time to improve as much as we could have and I am still lacking a couple of tenths," he declared.
Despite an unspectacular end to winter testing, Rossi remains upbeat heading into his first grand prix weekend on Bridgestone tyres - back at Qatar, for the first ever MotoGP night race, on March 7-9.
"Generally speaking however all of the winter tests, barring this one, have been positive for us; I was fast in Sepang and fast in Jerez. It's a pity that I wasn't able to be fast here as well, but we have some good ideas for the [race] next week and this does not dent my confidence," he said.
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Having been just ninth fastest on the opening night of the Qatar test, Valentino Rossihad warned that he and his team 'must do better' on Friday.
However, with just a week to go before the 2008 season opener, the Italian instead concluded his pre-season preparations by slipping one further position and lapping a full 1.7secs from the top.
Rossi and the side of the Fiat Yamaha garage took a wrong turn on tyre selection and - after then 'abandoning' their initial choice - were left without enough time to complete a race simulation.
"I cannot say I am happy with this test and speaking honestly I expected to be faster here," confirmed Rossi. "Unfortunately we wasted some time working on the set-up of the bike to try to adapt it to some tyres that we then decided to abandon.
"Once we'd made this decision we worked with different tyres and things improved a bit, but the test was nearly over and we didn't have enough time to complete all the work we wanted to do. Because of this I did not do a race simulation, but I was able to make two good runs," he explained.
The Doctor thus ended the inaugural night test with a best lap of 1min 56.256secs, compared with 1min 54.552secs for pace setting rookie team-mate Jorge Lorenzo and a 1min 55.485secs for top Bridgestone rider Casey Stoner (fifth).
"Unfortunately [there] wasn't enough time to improve as much as we could have and I am still lacking a couple of tenths," he declared.
Despite an unspectacular end to winter testing, Rossi remains upbeat heading into his first grand prix weekend on Bridgestone tyres - back at Qatar, for the first ever MotoGP night race, on March 7-9.
"Generally speaking however all of the winter tests, barring this one, have been positive for us; I was fast in Sepang and fast in Jerez. It's a pity that I wasn't able to be fast here as well, but we have some good ideas for the [race] next week and this does not dent my confidence," he said.
From : www.crash.net
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