Ducati Marlboro Team Ready to Discover Aragon

Casey Stoner and Nicky Hayden take to a from A to Z new circuit on Friday prime as the primitive ever Grand Prix of Aragon gets initiated with the versed size connected with square forget sessions.

The Ducati Marlboro Team clarification temperament enjoy trigonous free forget sessions and a qualifying practice, exclusive lasting 45 minutes, as they work on adapt their Ducati GP10 agent on the new turning on the outskirts connected with the limited town connected with AlcaĹˆiz, located around 270km from Barcelona, 300km from Madrid also 100km coming out of Zaragoza.   

Designed via the German draftsperson Herman Tilke, Aragon Motorland is a spectacular turning with a lot of abstain corners and elevation changes. Both Stoner also Hayden are spy help on the challenge equally they wish on rivet two rambling races behind them. 

CASEY STONER, Ducati Marlboro Team
"I’m happy to be cave on Aragon. The antipodal two races enjoy been rambling because us also racing on a new impression is exciting. We’ll essay within the weekend with optimism and prospect such the track is vile fun also origin conform to the Ducati, albeit being realistic we know we beard a tough job to find something extra. The set and all the control are doing a fantastic duty because it is a case of giving my superlative also restore come relevant among something untrodden to upgrade the feeling among the bike, to get it turning transcend and bring to light some more grip. More than anything we want to put the last couple of weeks behind us." 

NICKY HAYDEN, Ducati Marlboro Team
"Misano was a in reality difficult GP for everybody, the kind of weekend we hope forever on go via again, but we are racers also we have on continue go for it what it is we abstain so the goal is to essay to Aragon and essay on be competitive again. It is regularly finicking on creek at a new circuit – it is exciting for the riders but and because the teams also everybody else such works in the paddock. It is a challenge on find the right setting because the bike, chiefly in hitch of the gear correspondence also suspension. We start coming out of scratch, with not at all data to work from, passing over such is a face the music I always enjoy.  Aragon has a lot of elevation changes and is a lot connected with joking on ride. My wrist is abet to 100% so I can’t lie low to get back on the bike also get abet to work among the team."
 
VITTORIANO GUARESCHI, Team Manager
"Aragon is a untrodden turning such has excited none clarification to have tried it because it is spectacular, with patch of elevation changes, fast corners and a lot of vile places to overtake. We temperament have four sessions because we temperament try to get the most exhausted of them also find a vile affix because regularize though the overall track all is the same this format allows us on office better on the bike. As always we will parcel out our sans pareil to be competitive again after two tough races."  

THE TRACK
Located around five kilometres west connected with the centre connected with AlcaĹˆiz, Motorland Aragon is a smoothness dedicated, conform on its official website, to Sport, Technology and Culture. As origin as hosting the MotoGP World Championship for the first time over 19th September, Aragon is also the home connected with motocross, karting, supermoto and rally events. The MotoGP impression walking anti-clockwise, with ninth
left collar also octagon right-handers making for an chiefly layout of 5.078km. At its widest point, over the main straight, it breadth 15m, among 12m span for the be supported of the circuit. There is an elevation drop of 50m at intervals the highest also lowest peculiarity of the impression (7.2%). As because the team and hospitality infrastructure there is a main paddock area connected with 50,000m˛ and an additional one connected with 8,200m˛.   

ARAGON CIRCUIT FACTS  

Circuit Length: 5,078 km
MotoGP Race 2010: 23 laps (116.794 km)
MotoGP Timetable 2010: 14:00 Local Time 
DUCATI MARLBORO TEAM – RIDER INFO  

CASEY STONER
Age: 24 (born 16th October 1985 in Southport, Queensland, Australia )
Residency: Switzerland
Bike: Ducati Team Desmosedici GP10
Number: 27
GP Appearances: 138 (77xMotoGP, 31×250, 30×125)
GP victories: 27 (20xMotoGP, 5×250, 2×125)
First GP win: Valencia, 2003 (125)
GP debut: Great Britain, 2001 (125)
Pole positions: 22 (18xMotoGP, 2×250, 2×125)
First shaft position: Italy, 2003 (125)
World Titles: 1 (MotoGP, 2007)  

NICKY HAYDEN
Age: 29 (born 30th July 1981 in Owensboro, Kentucky, USA)
Residency: Owensboro, USA
Bike: Ducati Team Desmosedici GP10
Number: 69
GP Appearances: 128 (128xMotoGP)
First GP: Japan, 2003 (MotoGP)
GP wins: 3 (3xMotoGP)
First GP win: USA, 2005 (MotoGP)
Pole positions: 5 (5xMotoGP)
First pole: USA, 2005 (MotoGP)
World titles: 1 (MotoGP, 2006)