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Archivio September 2005

GP DE QATAR – ENTRENAMIENTOS OFICIALES MOTOGP
News
30/09
2005
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The Italian driver, who set the pace in morning free practice, worked well for the race and, with the way his injury has healed, hopes to suffer less than he did in the race last week.
MARCO (5th, 1’57”468): “In the morning we set a good pace and this gave us room to try some different [...]

QATAR, HOTTER THAN EVER. GP OF QATAR – FREE PRACTICE 1 & 2
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29/09
2005
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The Grand Prix of Qatar, the 14th round of the season, got underway today at the Losail circuit with temperatures hitting 40 degrees, and 56 degrees down on the track. As a result, the settings gathered by at the winter tests here, when temperatures were some 20 degrees lower, were of little use in this [...]

A CATHEDRAL IN THE DESERT
News
27/09
2005
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GP OF QATAR, ROUND 14 – PREVIEW. The MotoGP Championship returns to Qatar where last year the Team Movistar Honda MotoGP riders conquered the first and second steps of the podium. A double success which together with the other twelve obtained in 2004 (four victories and eight podiums) reconfirmed that the team lead by Fausto [...]

MARCO COMES THROUGH TOUGH WEEKEND IN STYLE
News
25/09
2005
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The Italian clinches a creditable fifth place despite his injured right foot. Another sweet and sour Grand Prix for the Telefónica Movistar Honda MotoGP team. Marco was immense at Sepang, finishing fifth in a race that only two days ago he did not expect to compete in because of his injured right foot. Starting from [...]

Marco still suffering but able to secure a determined ninth place
News
24/09
2005
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MALAYSIAN GP – MOTOGP QUALIFYING PRACTICE
Marco continues to push himself through the pain barrier as his injuries begin to suffer from the intense heat. The Italian was very tired at the end of today, with 42 laps under his belt, and he is hoping to get as much rest in tonight as he can in [...]

Marco returns to the track despite the pain caused by 35 stitches in his foot
News
23/09
2005
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MALAYSIAN GP – MOTOGP FREE PRACTICE
Marco managed the fourteenth fastest time despite his recent injury. The Italian rider made a remarkable effort to take part in today’s action, with the doctors removing the dressing from his right foot on Wednesday and undergoing intensive physiotherapy at the Clinica Mobile to heal the wound held together by [...]

Malaysian GP – Preview
News
21/09
2005
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Everything is ready for the Malaysian GP, the 13th event of the season. The riders will have no time to rest and for the Movistar rider Marco, who suffered an injury at the right foot in the crash with the leader of the Championship in Motegi, it will be a race against the time.
Together with [...]

Japan was pretty depleting in the end!!
Diary
20/09
2005
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At this moment I’m on the plane with Eddy flying from Japan to Malaysia. Physically I’m not too bad, but I’m a bit hurt psychologically. I can’t stop thinking about that bend. Everything was so quick and so unexpected that I keep asking myself if I could have done something to avoid it.
It was [...]

I’ll be giving it my all to get back to top form!!
Diary
20/09
2005
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Well, once again I’m writing to you from a plane..
Thankfully I’m a bit happier than I was last time I wrote.
In the end I raced on Sunday, even though it seemed practically impossible at one point, and didn’t do badly at all. However I’m really aching to get back on the podium!! It was on [...]

MARCO BACK ON THE FRONT ROW
News
17/09
2005
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The Telefónica Movistar Honda MotoGP team tackle the Grand Prix of Japan tomorrow with Marco on the front row of the grid and Sete Gibernau on the third row for the twelfth round of the season.
The Italian rider set the third fastest time of today’s qualifying session, half a second off the pole time set [...]