GP Motorcycle Racing

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FAVORITE FOR THE QUARTER OF LITER IS NOT CONSIDERED

Baptist: "the 2006 it will be difficult to surpass"

Alvaro Baptist, present champion of the category of 125 cc, hardly creates "superable" year 2006 after "fulfilling the dream" to crown itself in the liter eighth. "I am much more that satisfied, I do not have words to define what has been this year for me. Mainly after which I spent the year spent, the change in the 2006 has been radical and to better. I have managed to fulfill my dream, that was to be Champion of the World, but in addition to that, which prouder leaves is that we have marked to the difference remarkably race to me after race ", comments in an interview granted to its equipment.

In addition, the talaverano is wanted to clear I pull ahead of favorite for the next campaign where it will be released in 250 cc, "a new stage" for the young pilot. "I will have to work on moto to collect data and power much to respond to the problems thus that can arise to us. We counted on the advantage that the equipment has been many years in the races and have much information that surely, will be to us of utility ", affirms.

For that reason, Baptist will prepare the winter being centered in finding "' feeling' to moto to be able to really go quickly". "At the moment I have done two days of test and still he is in a moment for drawing conclusions", recognizes. The one of Talavera of Reina only wishes "to enjoy" in the new category since it has done it this year in 125 and it notices that in this sense its new mount "much more is amused that one 125cc", although insists on which it has left much learning.

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IT COMPETES IN The RALLY OF NEW ZEALAND To The CONTROLS OF A SUBARU




Valentino Rossi: "I will be two or three years more in the motos"
THIN ESTEBAN. Hamilton (New Zealand)

Valentino Rossi dares yet. The Italian pilot has aired publicly his love by the rallies and, after proving to do a long time in the British RAC, the blanket in the Rally de Nueva Zelanda returns to embroil at the top, to the controls of a Subaru.

What makes a pilot of MotoGP in the Rally de Nueva Zelanda?
It is a very great experience for me to be here. When we had to decide at the end of the championship of MotoGP what rally we were going to do, everybody said that the one of New Zealand was one of the best ones. Immediate goal is only to amuse to me and to try simultaneously to make kilometers with the car that attempt to know which is my rate, if I am slow or I am fast and to see how it is the Championship of the World of rallies. Really, if I like.

From when it likes so much the rallies?
The rallies always have been my passion. My father when he left the motos happened to this specialty and I have good memories. Unfortunately, I have just a short time and only I have been able to make the Rally de Monza regularly, because I always have a pile of things that to do. But it does not have anything to do with this, is to run with a car of rallies within a circuit. This year I have been able to come here and it is not going to be the last one perhaps and in 2007 I will see that it proves I can run, the Rally of Wales again. I am very young still and perhaps in the future it dedicates me to this when she leaves the motos. It is very difficult for a circuit pilot to come to the rallies. It is very different, is another world. Still I do not know when I will leave the motos, but will continue at least two or three years. I began in 1996 and this has been my tenth season, but my motivation is the same one that the first year. I like the motos and my work, but soon she will finish.

What is more difficult to lead a Ferrari F1 or a Subaru WRC?
It is very different to lead a Ferrari. It is a car strange, different from one normal one because there is much aerodynamics and the benefits are incredible, but for me it is easier to lead the one than a car of rallies. In the track you have the braking point, the cord..Y is easier to arrive at the limit. The form to drive a car of rallies is completely different, is another world and you need a pile experience to arrive at the limit.

Has helped his teammate, Petter him Solberg?
The relation between the pilots in the WRC is very different that in MotoGP, it is far better. Here no hand-to-hand combat with the other, I like much to fight in the track, you not only must fight against crono but also you must understand the other pilots, knowledge if a point is good to advance or no, that does not occur here. From that point of view less it is amused, but to run to 200 km/h by a normal highway compensates it.

Which is its objective in race?
I do not hope to do nothing in this rally, to improve and only to give another opportunity me that I did not have in a moment in Wales four years ago when leaving to me.

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IT WILL BE OPERATED OF A SHOULDER And ONE WILL LOSE The SHERRY TESTS

Nicky Hayden: "I am ready to fight elbow with elbow with Rossi"

Nicky Hayden, effective champion of the world of MotoGP, will be taken part surgically in the United States and it will lose the next Sherry training. The fallen controversy that suffered in Portugal aggravated one old injury, reason why it is predicted that they retire a metallic plate to him that has been taking for a long time in the right shoulder. Thus the things, Pedrosa and Okada could be the pilots of Honda-Repsol in the circuit Andalusian.

Hayden, in any case, follows in a cloud after snatching the crown to him to Valentino Rossi. "To win to him he was something incredible, something super special. It is not like gaining your small brother to him or meterte with a small boy ", commented the American pilot.

Hayden gave its version on why the title fell Italian in the decisive race of Cheste ruining the its options of obtaining. "we returned to Him crazy and now it is going to leave to fight, but the best thing of me still is about to to arrive. I am ready to fight until death, elbow with elbow, him ", affirmed in the BBC.

The pilot of Kentucky assures that already he has pardoned to Dani Pedrosa to throw to him in the test of Portugal, because involuntarily he promised to help to him him in the Great Prize of the Valencian Community and he fulfilled it. On the year that hopes to them again to both together ones in box of Deep the Repsol equipment, he assures that they must be understood. "I need to work jointly with Dani to develop new moto of 800", affirmed.


Discomfort with the 800
Nicky also keeps awake that not yet it is to taste when rises the new mount. "new moto is quite different. She is smaller and still I do not go comfortable in her. Still we must understand all its potential, but we have some good men working for us in Sling ", joked the North American.

Hayden was the week last in Malaysia proving with the 800, but it could not roll much in the rain. The week that comes will return to rise her in Sherry.

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THEY HAVE MORE VACATIONS IN WINTER THAN IN SUMMER

The pilots of motos do not return to train until the 22 of January

the pilots of motos are of the few people in the world who have more vacations in winter than in summer. In August they were fifteen; now month and means. From the 1 of December and to the 22 of January, by regulation of the FIM, they have prohibited to train. For that reason they have taken advantage of these three days in Sherry to the maximum.

Thursday fell the sun on the circuit and still some rolled. By the way, that the Spaniards are not the unique ones who leave everything it for the last moment. And what do now? Then the one of the common one of the mortals: to spend the time with the family, a viajecito, etc... Some as Rossi returns to rise a car, in the Motor Show of Bologna. There he will not be single. One will be with rivals like Capirossi or Melandri, who also are given to compete to the four wheels. The passion by the speed was not going away to lose in month and means. Others, like Pedrosa, also will rise a vehicle, but his it does not go to motor. It will make bicycle by the Pyrenees because the form is not necessary to lose it. At the moment the motors are extinguished. In Sepang, the 22 of January will return to rugir. What passes express!

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ALEX BALDOLINI FILES BY EQUIPMENT KIEFER

Manuel Poggiali will follow in 250 c.c. with the Campetella equipment

Manuel Poggiali will follow the next season in the World-wide one of 250 c.c. The sanmarinense, ex- 250 champion of 125 and c.c., was dismissed of KTM after a mediocre campaign and it was speculated on with his retirement, but in the end it has fichado by the Campetella equipment to pilot a Aprilia. His teammate will be Fabrizio Lai. Other that he changes of airs is the young person Alex Baldolini, who will make equipment with the German Dirk Heidolf in the square Kiefer Racing.

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IT CONFRONTS HIS FIRST WORLD-WIDE ONE OF 250 C.C. COMPLETE WITH A SLING

The Stop equipment and Go bets by the Wilairot Thailander

Ratthapark Wilairot will dispute next World-wide of 250 c.c. with the Spanish equipment Stop and Go. The Thailander, which it was tenth in the last Great Prize of Japan, that disputed like ' wild card', and second in the Japanese championship of the category, will pilot Deep RS with ' kit' in his first complete season.

"I am contented because I have made reality the sleepy that it was from boy. I am going to dispute to all the championship of the world thanks to the confidence that Stop and Go has put in me and to the effort of Sling-Thailand to make it possible. It is a great opportunity and I hope to take advantage of it to the maximum ", explained Wilairot.

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THE WORLD-WIDE CHAMPION OF 125 MAKES BALANCE OF HIS GREAT SEASON

Alvaro Baptist: "To year 2007 to only I request him to enjoy the same"

Alvaro Baptist takes leave of a year of dream. The talaverano of 22 years was not one of the favorites when beginning him season, but its union to Jorge Martinez To reel sent to him to complete the best season of history in 125 c.c., where it obtained to eight victories and the historical record of points. Baptist makes balance and assures: "the 2006 are a year not to forget because he has been very pretty. I have amused much on moto, in addition the results are almost superb and I believe that never I will forget this year ".

After to have already proven the Aprilia of 250 with which he will pilot in 2007, Alvaro values: "It is a new piston displacement, with more power and moto weight more. Now there is much more work and I must change a little my way to lead with respect to 125 c.c. ", indicates. As far as the objectives for 2007, Baptist thinks that "she is going to be all new one. I will do all the possible one to be in highest because if I see the option to win I am going to fight for that reason. To the 2007 to only I request him to be able to enjoy the same upon moto ".