Olivier Jacque potvrdio da će učestvovati na trci za nagradu Njemačke. To mu je treća trka ove sezone. Očito mu je drago što će se kao test vozač Kawasakija ponovo trkati u Njemačkoj a najvjerovatnije će biti učesnik i u Valensiji na sve boljem ZX-RR.

“I’m really looking forward to race again with Kawasaki. It has been two months and half since my last race and I know it won’t be easy. Doing just a few Grand Prix in a season is a bit strange. I will have to find the pace quickly and being efficient during the four one-hour sessions will be the key. I won’t have too much time to get ready for the race and we now have to schedule our work very precisely. I’m confident anyway, every time I get on the bike, the feeling comes back right away.”

“I will be the third Kawasaki rider alongside Shinya Nakano and Alex Hofmann, with a new crew led by Mr Naoyama. We tested last month in Germany and we are still learning to work with each other.”

“I love the Sachsenring. It’s a very technical track, which puts the emphasis on riding skills. I have good memories of this track: I won there on the 250cc in 2000, and after getting the pole position, I came close to winning the race in 2002 on the 500cc, until Alex Barros took me out. The track is formed by a very twisty section were the line is very tight, and the newer section is very fast and undulated. Usually, the lap times are pretty close and the set-up of the bike is very important. The bike must be well balanced, but also very consistent on a race distance.”

“I hope to get a good result, I’m not dreaming about winning, but I want to pay Kawasaki back for their faith. The weather will be important, and in Germany, you can expect anything!”

This post was last modified: 08-01-2005 06:05 AM by Dottore.

Legenda Rossi slavi sad za vikend svoje 150-to GP učešće. Rossi je svoju prvu trku odvezao sa 16 godina i zauzeo 6 mjesto u 125 cc klasi. U svojoj do sadašnjoj karijeri Rossi je ostvario 75 pobjeda, 110 podiuma i 40 pol pozicija u svim klasama.
Evo još info o Rossiju:


- In 1997 Rossi became the second youngest ever 125cc World Champion after scoring 321 points and eleven wins.

- Two years later, he became the youngest ever 250cc World Champion with nine wins.

- In 2001 Rossi joined Phil Read as one of only two riders ever to win the 125cc, 250cc and 500cc titles.

- Rossi’s debut victory for Yamaha at the opening race of 2004 in South Africa made him the first rider in history to take back-to-back wins for different manufacturers.




- After winning the MotoGP World Championship three times for Honda, Rossi took his fourth premier-class title with Yamaha in 2004 and became the only rider other than Eddie Lawson to win consecutive premier-class titles for different manufacturers.

- Rossi also became only the seventh rider ever to win the MotoGP World Championship four times, joining Giacomo Agostini, Mick Doohan, Geoff Duke, Mike Hailwood, Eddie Lawson and John Surtees.

- Rossi’s total of nine victories in 2004 was the highest number of wins in a season for any Yamaha rider in history.

- His victory at the 2005 Dutch TT made him the first Yamaha rider ever to win five consecutive races in the premier-class.

- Rossi’s pole position at Donington Park was his 30th in the premier-class, one more than Kevin Schwantz and second only to Mick Doohan’s total of 58.

- Rossi has gone on to win 25 of the 30 premier-class races he has started from pole, a ratio equal to 83.3%.

- Rossi’s victory at Donington Park last weekend was his 75th from 149 starts. Only three riders have stood on top of a Grand Prix podium on more occasions: Giacomo Agostini, Angel Nieto and Mike Hailwood.

- Rossi’s win in the first round of the season at Jerez made him the only rider other than Agostini to win the opening race of the year on five consecutive occasions.

- Rossi’s current advantage is the biggest by any rider after nine rounds of the premier-class World Championship since Mick Doohan in 1997.

- In the 25 races since he joined Yamaha, Rossi has taken 16 victories, 20 podiums and an average of 20.6 points per start, his best record from the three manufacturers he has raced with.

Alex Barros je postavio najbrže vrijeme juče na Sachsenring-u, iako je dva puta padao sa RC211V Honde. Ipak Barros je postavio najbrže vrijeme od 1’23.808.

Rossi je prošao bez povreda nakon svog drugog pada ove godine iako je njegova sigurnost bila vidno uzdrmana i postigao 13-to mijesto juče. Jedno od njegovih gorih

Sete Gibernau se trgnuo i postigao drugo vrijeme. Carlos Checa četvrti.

Vale po 76-ti put pobjeđuje u svojoj karijeri!!! Greška Setea u zadnjem krugu je bila više nego povoljna za Valea.

Rossi je poprilično odmakao na tabeli:

1- Rossi 236
2- Melandri 116
3- Gibernau 115

Sete Gibernau kaže povodom zadnje trke:

I’m really happy to have been fighting to win again – this should be our natural habitat and I promise it will continue to be so after the holidays,” said Gibernau, who hasn’t won a race since last year’s Qatari GP.

“It has been a good weekend and it almost ended with a perfect race, it was just a shame that I made a mistake on the final lap. I got distracted and lost a precious tenth of a second that cost me victory.”

Vidjećemo kad prođe odmor kako Sete vozi.