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Rossi: Race worse than expected
19 August 2007 / Results / PhotosValentino Rossi has rued Yamaha and Michelin's lack of pace at the Brno circuit this weekend, where he could only manage seventh position in today's race. The five-time world champion has struggled the past few races - his last podium was at the Dutch Grand Prix in June. However, the Italian did not expect the situation to be as bad as it was as he finished a distant 22 seconds behind championship leader Casey Stoner, who now stretches his lead over the Yamaha rider to a whopping 60 points.
"We expected a difficult race today because we knew our potential here wasn't very high after the last two days," he said. "However it was even worse than we expected.
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"I tried to keep my rhythm going but, after only seven or eight laps, the tyre started to slide a lot on the right side and from then on I wasn't able to open the throttle. Throughout the weekend we have done everything to try to find more traction. We have changed the setting a lot to try to find a way to make the tyre work, but unfortunately during the race we had no grip.
"Also, with the setting we had to use, we had to sacrifice some of our corner speed and this also slowed us down. In reality our situation is quite bad and we have a few different problems to deal with."
Rossi will be staying at the Brno track for the next couple of days, where he hopes the team can improve the factory bike's pace.
He added: "We will try to make the best of the next two days of work and to try to find something different for the next few races. We have to wait and see what we find, but for sure it's going to be very difficult.
"This is a very hard moment that we're in. We have six races to go and we just have to work as hard as we can to try to find a way to make some good results."
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