Gibernau: I Know Exactly What Was Missing Last Year And What I Need To Do This Season To Get Good Results

Gibernau: I Know Exactly What Was Missing Last Year And What I Need To Do This Season To Get Good Results

© 2006, Roadracing World Publishing, Inc.

FIRST DAY ON THE SNOWS OF MADONNA DI CAMPIGLIO FOR THE DUCATI MARLBORO TEAM Wrooom 2006, Madonna di Campiglio (Tn), Italy, January 17 – The Wrooom – MotoGP Press Ski Meeting 2006, the annual appointment on the mountains of Madonna di Campiglio in Trento, got underway today with the Ducati Marlboro Team riders spending several days of training and relaxation before the start of the coming MotoGP season. The formula of the event revolves around skiing in the mountains together with a round of press meetings and conferences. Today the first two scheduled press conferences saw Federico Minoli, President and Managing-Director of Ducati Motor Holding, and Sete Gibernau, the Borgo Panigale team’s new rider, give some early news on the Ducati Marlboro Team’s 2006 season. “We race to win and in our fourth year of participation in MotoGP we expect to win more than we did in 2005. We are sure that the team is stronger this year and we are ready for this fourth season with all the right cards to get some good results and to capitalize on our investment, also in view of the development of new technology aimed at our production sector” declared Federico Minoli in his speech to the press. “Racing is in Ducati’s DNA, we feel that we are responsible for taking and communicating Italian technology all over the world, and we are proud to be able to do so.” “Right from the start of the project we have had a positive collaboration with Phillip Morris” added the President of Ducati Motor Holding, “and I am extremely pleased to announce here today that Ducati Corse has extended the sponsorship agreement with Phillip Morris International until 2011. It is a unique partnership, one that since 2003 has linked together two of the most prestigious names in the world with the positive results that are visible for everyone to see. Together we can look forward to the future and the victories to come”. Then it was the turn of Sete Gibernau, on his first official appointment as Ducati Marlboro Team rider. The Spaniard, who has already had an opportunity to test the Desmosedici GP6, last November at Valencia and Jerez, said he was delighted with his decision and is looking to the future with optimism, confident in the potential of the Ducati-Bridgestone pairing. “Being in a team which is 100% behind me, with the ambitions, the means and the enthusiasm to produce good results, is like realizing a dream” declared Gibernau on greeting the press at Wroom 2006. “Every day that goes by I feel better in the team and I am sure that it will be an entertaining season, full of satisfaction and that I will be capable of repaying the trust that has been put in me”. “It’s going to be a difficult year, because every year MotoGP becomes more and more difficult and competitive, but I’m not afraid of the job ahead as I know exactly what was missing last year and what I need to do this season to get good results. The potential is there, day after day I’m more and more convinced of that, and I can only look ahead with optimism. In a few days time we’ll be leaving for the tests but after the first laps I completed in November on the Desmosedici, I could see that it was a great bike, albeit completely different to what I had ridden before. Add to this a great team and a company that has always made racing its philosophy and I am sure that I have made the right decision.” Tomorrow it will be the turn of Loris Capirossi and Claudio Domenicali, Ducati Corse Managing-Director, who will present the new bike. The Desmosedici GP06 will therefore make its first official appearance tomorrow on the snows of Madonna di Campiglio. Loris Capirossi and Sete Gibernau will unveil the new machine from the Italian manufacturer, a bike that will soon be taking part in a season that promises to be exciting and hard-fought, and in which the Ducati Marlboro Team will surely play a leading role.

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