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It’s warmer at Valencia today and the final qualifying session went on much acceptable weather conditions. Marco improved 1”165 on yesterday’s time, but actually, he didn’t move up his starting grid position as he would have liked: the Yamaha M1 rider set the sixteenth quickest and he is going to start from sixth row in [...]
Marco set the seventeenth fastest time, slowed down by set-up problems on his Yamaha M1, during this afternoon’s opening qualifying session for the Valencia Grand Prix. Problems caused also by not perfect track conditions, with breezy temperatures (19° C) and strong wind.
“I’m so far down the standings because I couldn’t make the best of my [...]
Unfortunately, Marco’s race lasted sixteen laps, because he was forced to retire for a problem at his left eye. After a good start from fourth row, Marco was eighth at the end of the first lap, and in a close group of riders all fighting for fifth position. Then, the Yamaha rider had to slow [...]
Marco Melandri confirms himself in tenth place improving his time over eight tenths of a second and so he will start tomorrow’s Australian GP from fourth row on the grid. In the final qualifying session, it was sunny and temperatures were not so icy. Marco was able to make a good step forward and there [...]
The first qualifying session of the Australian GP started with icy temperatures and wet asphalt in the free practice. During the morning session, Marco set the third fastest time in 1’35”322 and in the afternoon’s qualifying, he started very fast. At 22 minutes to go, though, Marco fell off in the first turn, which is [...]
Australia is the last of three overseas rounds and the weather is completely different from Qatar and Malaysia. The temperature is almost 20 degrees lower than in the previous two races and if it doesn’t rain still is very cold. The fifteenth and last but one round of the MotoGP Championship takes place at the [...]
Marco Melandri’s Malaysian Grand Prix didn’t start well but unluckily, finished even worst. Marco understood there was an engine problem on his Yamaha M1 on the sighting lap and so he was forced to go back in the pit garage. Actually, bike two wasn’t ready because rear tyre wasn’t on, so there wasn’t enough time [...]
Marco seemed to have put yesterday’s problems behind him as he moved up to 10th position. So, the Yamaha rider was serene and confident on his potential today.
“Today things are definitely better, I made steps forward both in terms of pace and lap time, riding constantly in 2’04”, while yesterday I wasn’t even able to [...]
After just six days since the GP of Qatar, the MotoGP World Championship is again on track at the 5548 km Sepang circuit, where the Malaysian Grand Prix will take place next Sunday.
“I like this track – said Marco – even though, actually, I’ve never achieved great results in the MotoGP class”.
And Marco hasn’t changed [...]
It’s just Marco’s luck as he was forced to retire on lap thirteenth while he was fighting with Xaus for fourth position. A technical problem took away a possible good result for Marco, because he could have finished on the podium. That’s a bad piece of luck for Melandri who leaves tonight Qatar for Malaysia, [...]