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Time for Pramac d'Antin to deliver

The Pramac d'Antin team has shown signs that it is one of the fastest teams in 2007, especially during winter testing, yet a podium finish eludes its two riders Alex Barros and Alex Hofmann.

After two rounds, Barros is sitting a healthy tenth in the points' standings, whilst Hofmann is thirteenth but both riders will be hoping to start their championship assault by turning potential into results at the Turkish Grand Prix next weekend.

"I'm very happy to come back to Istanbul because I like that track so much," Barros said.

"I haven't a lot of data at my disposal to do a forecast, I have run in Turkey only one time in 2005, but I know that Ducati always obtained there good results. This year, however, we have different bikes, so to understand our level on this track, we have to run at least some laps on track! As my concern, I'm deep motivated to do my best to be able to reach my prefixed results; in the firsts two race, I made some mistakes, but I think I was unlucky too; we worked well in bike's setting and then I had some problem with the front. I'm confident for my next race, if everything will taking the right way, I will be able to have my hoped results."

Meanwhile, Hofmann commented: "Finally the moment to ride again has arrived! This three weeks's stop was very useful for my athletic and psychologic training, now I'm deep motivated for this third MotoGP date! I like a lot the Istanbul's race, in my opinion the track is wonderful and it suites with both Bridgestone tires and Ducati GP7. I'm very impatient to go down on track, because in the firsts two races we didn't our best; now we want to show that we can achieve the first ten positions."

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