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Ducati Team preview, Catalunya 2012


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Burgess: "Valentino's focus is the podium"

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Jerry Burgess, Valentino Rossi's crew chief was told on speedtv.com that Rossi is still focus on podium. Burgess understand that Valentino is in the middle of a complicated situation, and also frustration. But he still believe that Valentino Rossi have a vision to be at the front of the other guys.

"The ball is in the court of Ducati and what I can see is a frustration in Valentino. The other Ducati riders may point out that they are going better than Valentino at the moment but Valentino's vision is to be at the front whereas the other guys' vision is just do as well as they can and a decent result. Valentino's focus is the podium."

"At Qatar the Ducati top speed showed if you are winning in the final 200 meters of the straight you are losing in the first 200 meters and that also means losing out on acceleration at many corners. I was involved with these top-end bikes at Honda in the late 1980s and at Honda we went to the big bang two stroke in '92 and picked up all that acceleration that we had lost giving the bikes too much top end."

"In Qatar when Valentino was complaining about the engine that was a good sign because he is not complaining about the chassis. To make every good motorcycle you need to maximize both the corner entry and exit and for the short straights between the corners. The main straight only turns up once on a lap. The rest of the track is where you can make a gap or pass riders."

interview source: speedtv.com

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Burgess: Rossi Not at Stoner's Level

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Valentino Rossi's long-time engineer Jeremy Burgess has hinted that the MotoGP legend is past his prime in a television interview on Ten before the season-opener in Qatar.

Burgess is one of MotoGP's most respected engineers and assisted former champions Wayne Gardner and Mick Doohan during their stellar careers. Since then he's been embedded firmly in Rossi's camp, following the Italian from Honda to Yamaha, and most recently to Ducati. The 59-year-old Aussie says Rossi is no longer the best rider in MotoGP.

"He's a realist, he knows he's perhaps not at the level of Casey (Stoner) and Lorenzo but he certainly believes he can race with the rest of them," Burgess said. "At some point in your life you're not as good as you once were.

"I'm not saying he's not, but at some point we've got to give him a bike to let him show that he can get back up there."

Considered by many to be the greatest of all time, Rossi holds an unparalleled record in modern motorcycle racing with nine grand prix world championships, seven of which came in the top-tier MotoGP class.

source: foxsport.com.au

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