2017 MotoGP Catalan Grand Prix – Rossi (8th): I am very sad today

Big disappointment this weekend for the Doctor, victim of the Yamaha lack of grip on the overheated and badly coated Barcelona circuit … Brilliant winner last year, Rossi saves 8 points for 8th place this year, but dives in 5th position in the 2017 championship, 28 points behind his teammate Viñales, with only 8 lengths ahead of Johann Zarco ! Statements and Analysis.

Valentino Rossi, Yamaha (13th in qualifying, 8th in race): "I’m very sad today because last year I won the race and it is one of my favorite circuits. We knew it would be a difficult weekend, we had problems during practice due to the temperature of the asphalt and the lack of grip. Today’s race was not favorable but I did my best to take as many points as possible in the championship. Tomorrow (today ‘ hui, Editor’s note) we have an important test to try a lot of things, so it’s positive. I hope that for the next two races in a row (GP of the Netherlands on June 25 and GP of Germany on July 2 , Editor’s note) we will be able to return to the forefront ".

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MNC analysis : Starting 13th just ahead of Johann Zarco, the Doctor on his official Yamaha failed to cross the finish line in front of the French rookie on his Yamaha Tech3 … facing Marc Marquez, after a race that he had qualified as "of his career, Valentino Rossi had to be content this year to bring back 8 modest points in his purse of nine-time world champion.

Fortunately for his possible tenth title, his teammate and championship leader Maverick Viñales did not find a solution to the Catalan problem either: he finished only 10th, still leading the provisional but with a lead reduced to 7 points over Andrea Dovizioso. .. The Doctor’s gap on the leading man is therefore "only" 28 points, but Rossi goes from third to fifth place in the championship and is followed by … Johann Zarco !

The key to tires…

"Rossi was preparing to follow Zarco ahead of Lorenzo and Bautista, but his tires suddenly deteriorated and he could not fight for sixth place", regrets the Doctor’s team..

The tires were indeed the main concern of the riders this weekend, but Dovizioso managed to manage this parameter where the official Yamaha riders failed. "The fact of producing these results (lap record and almost record of the duration of the race, editor’s note) despite a temperature of 55 ° C on the ground and very little grip because of the poor condition of the track proves the resistance of the tires ", considers for his part the two-wheeler manager at Michelin Motorsport..

“If we had known how much the track had deteriorated since our last test here, our tire allocation could have been different,” admits Piero Taramasso, “but the teams have adapted well and we have three different manufacturers in the top 5 "(Ducati, Honda and Yamaha, NDLR).

Among the official bikes, only the Yamaha have indeed shown so many difficulties yesterday in Barcelona. Admittedly, the two factory M1s were in medium-medium when the three bikes on the podium were in hard-medium, but let’s hope that the official IRTA test scheduled for today at the Montmelo circuit will allow Rossi and Viñales to arrive more serene in Assen for the Dutch GP on June 25 !

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