Rossi Not Comfortable With GP12

VALENCIA - Valentino Rossi tested the Ducati GP12 bike with a new chassis at Valencia. Rossi acknowledged the new Ducati motorcycles are still a lot of trouble, and he has not felt comfortable with his new bike. 

In the test session that took place in Ricardo Tommo, it completed the nine-times champions 71 times the motor rotation using a new framework. With this new framework, Ducati certainly hope Rossi and Nicky Hayden could feel the front of the motor. 

The result, Rossi managed to record the time of 1.33.857 seconds and was in position six. Ducati was lagged 1671 seconds from the fastest riders Dani Pedrosa. Rossi acknowledges that no longer wear Ducati carbon chassis on GP12, requires a lot of changes. 

"We need a lot of experience and data to understand this bike. Unfortunately some problems remain. Today, we arrived at a level that can not be increased. I have not felt comfortable and we need more improvement," said Rossi. 

Rossi tried to explain the problems that exist in the GP12. According to former Yamaha, GP12 is still the same problem that is in the middle of the bend. The Doctor admits he can not menggeber motor to maximum on the curve. 

"We also had great difficulty with motor acceleration due to the amount of labor so much, we twist too much. We had to make some modifications to the weight distribution and also the electronic problem," said the Italian rider. 

"This test is very important to menggeber bike on the track and try to understand the machine. Now, we start working for the competition next season and try to be ready to face MotoGP, February later," he said quoted by MCN, Wednesday (11/09/2011).

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