Only the Ninth Start, Rossi Confessing Satisfied

BARCELONA - Valentino Rossi will start from third row on the MotoGP race in Catalonia, precisely in the ninth position. Ducati is claimed to have been quite satisfied and come back later hoping the race it rained.

The Doctor was starting position worse than his team mate Nicky Hayden, who started from the seventh position. Rossi was 0.880 seconds behind pole position which was taken from Casey Stoner.

This seven-time world champion recorded his best result with Ducati finished second at Le Mans circuit in the wet French MotoGP at last. Rossi was hoping to race this time took place in rainy weather.

33-year-old Italiano change after the swinging arm of the aluminum material on the first day of practice to be carbon fiber on the day of qualifying. Rossi also equip his Ducati Desmosedici GP12 with an updated electronic devices.

"I am quite satisfied that we managed to improve the performance of the motor to be able to reach the third row, which is our goal today," Rossi said as quoted by Crash, Sunday (03/06/2012).

"We are also quite content related to motor speed because I can race pretty well and consistently, though only using old tires," I Rossi.

"Weather forecast says it will rain tomorrow (today ed.), And of course we knew we could do good in the wet track, even if the weather was overcast just good enough for us," said Rossi.

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