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Rossi runs into problems

Valentino Rossi got off to a positive start of his Le Mans Grand Prix weekend this morning, but in the afternoon faced a couple of problems. The Yamaha rider was unable to move the team in the right direction in the afternoon but hopes to come up with some changes in Saturday's morning practice.

Speaking about today's job Rossi said: "This morning things were going okay but this afternoon we ran into a few problems and we weren't able to improve our situation much. The tyre rule isn't great for us here and we haven't yet found the right tyre from our selection, however we've gathered a lot of data today so hopefully we can make some changes tomorrow to get our package working better.

"I think that we didn't find exactly the right direction today with regards to the setting; this is quite a strange track and at the moment I can't ride the bike how I want to. I have a big score to settle here after what happened last year so we've got to keep focused and work at 100% in order to be in the best shape for a battle on Sunday. We need to close the gap to the others tomorrow. Colin is a bit faster than me and he showed the bike is working quite well, so hopefully we can study the data we have and come up with a new direction for tomorrow."

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