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Optimistic Comeback For Elias, Guintoli 13th
24 June 2008
Surely a proof of character for Toni Elias who, starting from the last position in the British Grand Prix, gritted his teeth giving all he had from the first to the last turn. At the end of the first lap the Spanish rider had already gained two positions on Hopkins and Toseland who unluckily slipped in the first turn. Constancy allowed the Alice Team rider to improve lap after lap registering his best lap time in the 21st lap when he was in twelfth position. In the last lap, after a battle which lasted seven laps, the Catalan rider made the last overtake which put him in eleventh position which means five world championship points.
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Best Qualifying Session for Guintoli
21 June 2008
Cold and rainy day at Donington Park circuit, in England. The morning free practice has shown a great performance by Sylvain Guintoli who under the rain has always demonstrated great qualities. The afternoon session, that has determined the starting grid of the 22nd English Grand Prix hosted on this circuit, rain wasn’t so heavy making the track faster. The French rider has made it to improve his best lap times constantly finishing the session in twelfth position, his best qualifying session of the season. His teammate, Toni Elias, didn’t make it to find the right feeling to push at the maximum in this weather condition and will have to start in eighteenth position.
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First Day of Work for Alice Team at Donington
21 June 2008
After a weekend of break, MotoGP is back in action for the eight round of the 2008 World Championship at Donington Park circuit, in England. Alice Team riders haven’t begun in the best way, even if after the two days of test completed last week in Barcelona, they have shown improvements. The Spanish rider, Toni Elias, has also been unlucky today: in the afternoon session he had to stop in the garage for some minutes due to some technical problems. Back on track in the last minutes of the second free practice, he made it to improve his best morning lap time by almost a second, concluding the day in fifteenth position. His teammate, Sylvain Guintoli, didn’t make it to take a big step forward in the second hour of work, concluding the day in eighteenth position.
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Challenging Day for Alice Team at the Montmelo’
06 June 2008
First day of work with some complications in Barcelona for the Alice Team riders. Toni Elias has slipped in the third lap of the day. He slighted hit his right leg but the bike has suffered many damages. For this reason the Catalan rider has basically work today with only one bike at his disposal. The other Alice Team rider, Sylvain Guintoli, has worked a lot completing 43 laps in the two hours of work at his disposal today. The French rider has worked well improving his best lap time by almost a second in the afternoon session. The atmospheric condition seems to change in the last hours, in fact the chances of rain are increasing for Tomorrow and Sunday.
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Sixth Row White & Red Start in The Alice GP of Italy
31 May 2008
Another day of hard work for the Alice Team riders on the Mugello circuit. In the first hour of work of the day, with almost perfect track conditions, Sylvain Guintoli seemed to have solved the problem encountered yesterday ending the session with the eighth best lap time. But in the afternoon, with the track completely dry, the French rider didn’t make it to go further than the seventeenth position also due to some technical problems. He will therefore start the race between his Team-mate Toni Elias, who is one position ahead of him, and the other Ducati rider, Marco Melandri, who complete the sixth row in eighteenth position. A pity for the Catalan rider who didn’t make it to use the last qualifying tyre in the last fast lap at his disposal due to the intense traffic found on the Tuscan circuit.
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Elias Grazes The Top Ten
19 May 2008
During the firsts laps it seemed like a new race for Team Alice's Toni Elias who started from the fourteenth position on the grid and maintained the tenth position until the fifth lap. But, just a bit later, the Catalan rider didn’t manage to maintain his good rhythm and lost four positions. At mid race, just like in China two weeks ago, with less fuel and therefore with a lighter bike, he found a rhythm which allowed him to finish in eleventh position even if the rain slowed him down during the last part of the race. His teammate, Sylvain Guintoli, wanted to do well for his own supporters, but the Frenchman didn’t manage to find the right rhythm at the beginning of the race. He lost too much time from the group pace and consequently lost the possibility to fight for better positions.
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Elias in Eighth at The Pramac GP of China
04 May 2008
The fourth 2008 MotoGP race started with uncertain track condition. The asphalt has completely dried out a few minutes before the start of the Pramac Grand Prix of China, where the Alice Team riders have respectively started from fifteenth and fourteenth position. Guintoli has done better than his team-mate at the beginning maintaining the thirteenth position until the eighteenth lap when he lost two position and concluded in fifteenth. The opposite has done Toni Elias, who in the sixth lap was in seventeenth position, but after a few laps the Spanish rider found the right rhythm which allowed him to come back and finish the race in eight position. A pity for the not so happy start, seen Toni has registered the fifth fastest lap in the race, not too far from the fastest. A sensible step forward for the Catalan rider who hopes to keep growing in two weeks time, on May 18th, when there will be the Alice Grand Prix of France.
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Fifth & Sixth Row for the Team Alice Pair
03 May 2008
Alice Team rider, Toni Elias, didn’t make it to maintain the same position obtained in the first day of work in Shanghai, where he concluded in eleventh position, finishing today’s qualifying session in fifteenth position. The Spaniard was in eight position after half session, but couldn’t make it to use in the best way Bridgestone qualifying tyres. Sylvain Guintoli, seated in the other side of the Alice Team box, has improved his lap times registered during the firsts three free sessions, but it wasn’t enough to conquer a good position in the starting grid. Today’s temperatures were similar to the first day of work on the Shanghai circuit, with the asphalt temperature that reached 48 degrees. Weathermen are promising rain for tomorrow, with more than 80% of possibilities for a wet race.
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Elias Grazes The Top Ten
02 May 2008
The improvements done in the last test at Estoril have helped the Alice Team in the first day of free practice in China, on the Shanghai circuit. In fact, the Alice Team Spanish rider, Toni Elias, has concluded the firsts two hours of work with the eleventh best lap time notwithstanding a small electronic problem didn’t allow him to be on track in the last ten minutes of the day. The other Alice Team rider, Frenchman Sylvain Guintoli, couldn’t make it to do the same, ending the day in seventeenth position. The asphalt temperature reached this morning 42 degrees and 50 degrees in the afternoon. Tomorrow another day of free practice for the Alice Team duo, before the afternoon qualifying session.
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14th For Elias, Guintoli In 6th Row
13 April 2008
Toni Elias, Alice Team rider, has concluded the third qualifying session of the season in fourteenth place, the same of his best performance conquered at the first race of the season in Qatar. In the other side of the garage Toni’s teammate, Frenchman Sylvain Guintoli, has slipped in the official session after the first few laps. After having concluded the session, the French rider went to the mobile clinic to check the situation of his injury, but, luckily, it doesn’t seems a worrying situation. Sylvain has slightly twisted his left ankle and he shouldn’t have any complication for Tomorrow’s race.
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Weather Effects First Day Of Work In Estoril
11 April 2008
As promised by the meteorologists in the past few days, the first hour of practice in the Portuguese Grand Prix has been under the rain. At the end of this hour of work for the MotoGP riders, the sky cleared up a bit and the sun dry out the track for the second session. In the first sixty minutes Alice Team French rider, Sylvain Guintoli, has registered interesting lap times positioning in second place until a few minutes left. Once he came back in the box other riders improved their best lap times and the Frenchman concluded in ninth position.
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First Race & Firsts Points For The Alice Team
10 March 2008
Alice Team Riders, Toni Elias and Sylvain Guintoli, have conquered the firsts world championship points in the first race of the MotoGP season on the Losail International circuit in Qatar. The first World Championship historical nocturnal race, hasn’t be so lucky for the French-Hispanic duo, as both riders found some complications during the race. The Spanish rider (Elias) has meet some difficulties straight away since the first laps he was going slower compared to the time registered during warm up.
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First Qualifying Of The Year In Qatar Under Floodlights
09 March 2008
Alice Team riders, Toni Elias and Sylvain Guintoli, have stepped on the Losail international circuit, in Qatar, for the first qualifying session of the 2008 MotoGP World Championship under the floodlights. Guintoli wasn’t in the best physical conditions due to some fever and a bad cold. Elias has tried to improve his best lap time until the last second trying to improve his position in the standing, concluding in fourteenth position, in fifth row. In the qualifying hour the track temperature was of fifteenth degrees, while the air temperature just one degree more. Tomorrow twenty minutes of warm up before the first historic nocturnal MotoGP race.
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Winter Tests Concluded For The Alice Team
01 March 2008
With the second nocturnal test on the Losail International Circuit, in Qatar, MotoGP winter tests have concluded. From next weekend, always in Doha, things will get serious with the first 2008 MotoGP World Championship round. Alice Team riders, Toni Elias and Sylvain Guintoli, have worked hard to find the best solution for the beginning of the season. The French rider, during the fast lap, has slipped and hurt his right arm, but after the first medical exam it doesn’t seem a serious injury. The rider is already on a flight to England where he will undergo further medical check up.
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First MotoGP Night Test
29 February 2008
The first MotoGP nocturnal session has finished without any complication in Doha, Qatar. The Losail circuit has hosted the first MotoGP World Championship session ever under the floodlights; this was the last exam before next weekend’s MotoGP round on the same circuit. The Alice Team riders have declared themselves amused and satisfied about the conditions of the track, totally approving the project. Tomorrow, the MotoGP riders will have another possibility to adapt to the cold and windy conditions of the lit up desert circuit.
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First Day Of Testing In Jerez For Alice Team
17 February 2008
Alice Team has stepped on the Spanish circuit in Jerez de la Frontera for the first day of Official Test. Toni Elias has registered interesting lap times while his team mate, Sylvain Guintoli, has found some difficulties during the day. Temperature was over twenty degrees and allowed all the MotoGP riders to work without complications. Tomorrow, from 2.05pm, the MotoGP Official Test will start with a BMW Z3 M as award.
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Alice Team's First 08 Test Has Concluded In Sepang
24 January 2008
The Alice Team has concluded the first 2008 MotoGP test on the Sepang circuit in. Both riders have done well, improving their lap times day by day. The hot and humid weather has characterized all three days spent in the country located in South East Asian, in fact, also today the air temperature has reached 35 degrees at the highest moment. The Alice Team will now move to Phillip Island where it will have the opportunity to use three more day of testing on the spectacular Australian circuit.
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Alice Team MotoGP Adventure Has Begun
23 January 2008
The Alice Team adventure in the MotoGP World Championship has officially started. In Sepang, in the first 2008 winter test, Toni Elias and Sylvain Guintoli have ridden for the first laps of the season onboard the Ducati Desmosedici GP8 Sat. The Malaysian climatic conditions, which were over 30 degrees, have raised the asphalt temperature to 46 degrees today. Tomorrow and Thursday the Alice Team riders will have many laps at their disposal to try to improve their best lap time.
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Very Complicated Race For The Pramac D´Antin Team
21 October 2007
The penultimate round of the MotoGP World Championship held at the Malaysian circuit of Sepang has seen yet another victory for Casey Stoner, proving the supremacy of the Ducati-Bridgestone combination. Nonetheless, for the Pramac-Dantin Team, the race was not satifactory due to technical problems. Alex Barros finished in twelfth position and Chaz Davies in seventeenth. In two weeks the final round of the season will be held at the Ricardo Tormo circuit in Valencia, Spain.
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Fourth Position For Pramac's Hofmann At Jerez, Difficult Day For Barros
25 February 2007
Alex Barros and Alex Hofman n pushed through a difficult second day of testing at the Official IRTA test in Jerez, two weeks before the season opener in Qatar. The day began with thick fog, and it wasn’t until lunchtime that it began to burn off and under strong sunshine, the riders took to the track for the remainder of the afternoon. The Pramac D’Antin MotoGP team continued to work on the general set-up of the Ducati GP7, and by the end of the day had begun to resolve some of the bike’s issues. Alex Barros worked steadily on engine controls and suspension work, and made his fastest lap at 1’41.842, while Alex Hofmann, solved his problems with a qualifying tires, and had a great lap good enough for fourth place with a time of 1’40.748.
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