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Shanghai Positive for Dovizioso Despite Final Position of 11th
5 Days ago
The Chinese Grand Prix weekend has been one of extremes in weather. First high temperatures yesterday and Friday, then overnight rain and then more heavy rain this morning, which only stopped at the start of the 250cc race. So, when the MotoGP race began everyone was on slick tyres, but the temperature was much lower than yesterday. Despite this, Andrea Dovizioso was able to move forward from his grid slot and able to fight for fourth position with Nicky Hayden, Marco Melandri and Colin Edwards. Once more the JiR Team Scot rider was able to show his quality, fighting spirit and determination. He ran an excellent race, but was affected at the end with a loss of grip, which saw him slip down to 11th position at the flag.
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Great Race for Takahashi Complicated by Technical Problem
5 Days ago
Yuki Takahashi once again demonstrated his fighting spirit in today’s 250cc race following on from his difficult qualifying session yesterday. After his crash yesterday afternoon, Yuki started today’s race from 10th on the grid. The JiR Team Scot rider didn’t take any major risks on the wet but drying Tarmac in the early laps and he was able to hang onto the leading group and stay in an excellent third position overall. Then, on the last corner of the last lap, Yuki had a technical problem with the bike causing him to slow down and cross the line in seventh place.
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Takahashi Wants Good Result From the Chinese GP
6 Days ago
The second qualifying day for the 250cc Chinese Grand Prix race ended after just six laps for the JiR Team Scot squad. A crash on his Honda RS250RW meant that Yuki Takahashi required a check-up at the Shanghai circuit’s medical centre. Yuki is a tough individual and he will be ready to race tomorrow, despite having some pain in his lower right leg. The Japanese rider is still highly motivated for tomorrow’s race and knows that he has good consistency for the race, which should still see him battling with the top riders in the class.
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Dovizioso’s Main Target for Tomorrow, Consistency
6 Days ago
Today’s high temperatures during the qualifying session for tomorrow’s Chinese Grand Prix affected grip on the Tarmac of the Shanghai track affecting the starting position of JiR Team Scot’s Andrea Dovizioso. The conditions made it important to understand the setting of the bike and the choice of tyres for the race. The pace that Andrea has in race configuration seems to be very good and that will be the key target for the race tomorrow. The team and rider will be working hard to better their qualifying position in the race. The start will be vital to the overall result, but Andrea and the entire JiR Team Scot squad will always be attacking to get the result they deserve.
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Good Progress On First Day Of Qualifying For Takahashi
02 May 2008
The first qualifying session for the 250cc class today and Yuki Takahashi made excellent progress from the morning to the afternoon session. The team has already made the first tyre choice for the race and worked hard on the overall configuration for tomorrow’s very important qualifying session as the team and rider aims for a good race on Sunday. The Honda RS250RW of JiR Team Scot was able to show that their lap times were very consistent and one of the major targets for tomorrow will be also to make more improvements in race configuration for Sunday.
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First Day at 'Magnificent’ Shanghai Track for Dovizioso
02 May 2008
Summer weather today greeted the JiR Team Scot squad at the Shanghai race circuit for the first day of practice. The big difference in temperature between the morning and afternoon sessions was the crucial point of the working programme for both team and rider. After posting the fourth best time in the morning, Andrea Dovizioso concentrated in the afternoon looking for the best choice of tyres while also adapting to the big difference in temperature. After finding a good setting on the bike with the electronic engine management system, the work went well until the end of the day. Tomorrow will be vitally important to ensure optimum settings of the Honda RC212V and grid position for Sunday’s race.
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JiR Team Scot Heads to Shanghai, to be Protagonist Again
29 April 2008
From Europe to China, JiR Team Scot heads to the fourth round of the 2008 championship, which will be held on the Shanghai circuit. This track is characterised by being a technical circuit and a magnificent venue. Both JiR Team Scot riders after only three races gone so far this season, head to China with a positive mental attitude and the motivation to consolidate and improve upon the work done so far this year. Andrea Dovizioso on his Honda RC212V has confirmed his reputation as a fast and hard rider and he carries to China a lot of motivation to repeat and improve upon his previous good performances. Yuki Takahashi on the Honda RS250RW wants to improve on his good start to the season and head closer to the top of the results sheets as well as make up for his injury-hit 2007 season. The MotoGP circus will be back in Europe for the next six races following the Chinese event.
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The JiR Junior Team Ready For Italian Championship!
19 April 2008
The ‘Campionato Italiano Velocità’ starts this weekend at Mugello. The spectacular Tuscany track plays host to the first appointment of the season of the Italian Championship this Sunday, 20th April. In the CIV series, the JiR Junior team is running with Matteo Traversa on the Honda RS125GP two-stroke machine. After his baptism of fire in the first race of the Honda RS125GP Trophy in Misano, the rider has learned a lot by racing against more experienced riders. This weekend’s race will be very important for the growing experience of the Junior Team project, which was originally realised by Gianluca Montiron.
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Excellent Performance From Dovizioso Despite Crash
13 April 2008
The Grand Prix of Portugal ended today for Andrea Dovizioso in a crash, which was poor reward for the effort and skill he displayed during the first half of the race. Dovi started well from seventh on the grid to battle through his fellow competitors to join the lead group of four riders, which soon pulled away from the chasing pack. Andrea and his Honda RC212V were not dropped by the Yamahas of Jorge Lorenzo, Valentino Rossi or the Honda of Dani Pedrosa, showing that Andrea was able to maintain an excellent rhythm, even if the track was not in the best condition thanks to the overnight rain and the spots of rain which arrived during the race.
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Fighting Race For Yuki Takahashi
13 April 2008
After a battling 26-laps at the 250cc Portuguese Grand Prix, Yuki Takahashi finished the race in sixth position. Starting from fifth position on the grid, Yuki was baulked for the early laps as he got caught up with some slower riders. Eventually the Japanese rider caught up with the leading group and slotted into third place, but Yuki was soon caught and passed by KTM’s Mika Kallio leaving the JiR Team Scot rider to battle with Mattia Pasini and Hiroshi Aoyama. With ten laps to go Yuki began to push hard once more, but was caught by Thomas Luthi. By now Yuki’s front tyre was giving him less grip so his Honda was unable to hold onto the podium place and he finished the race in sixth place. The result gives Yuki fourth in the championship still near the championship leader Kallio.
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Andrea on 3rd Row at Portuguese GP
12 April 2008
The second day of practice for the Portuguese Grand Prix was held today in good conditions, which once more allowed the JiR team to make yet more progress – especially in the race configuration of their Honda RC212V. This progress was shown by the excellent pace and awesome qualifying for Andrea Dovizioso as he put his machine on the third row with the seventh-best time of the day.
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JiR Team Scot Ready For Third Round At Estoril
07 April 2008
After the first two exciting races, the World Championship arrives in Portugal on the Atlantic coast and the circuit of Estoril. This is a demanding and complicated circuit, with a real mix of corners where the right set-up is crucial for both rider and bike. JiR Team Scot rider Andrea Dovizioso has already shown his talent in MotoGP, but now he’s looking for some confirmation of this with a good result. In the last two years in the 250cc two-stroke class, Andrea has scored a victory and a second place and obviously he now wants to achieve a good result here in Portugal on the 800cc MotoGP bike. Yuki Takahashi, following his podium in Jerez, wants to continue battling at the front of the pack and is now fourth in the championship. So far he has been able to show the handling qualities of his Honda RS250RW to the full and he hopes to continue this at Estoril.
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Positive First Day of Practice for Yuki Takahashi
29 March 2008
The first day of practice for the 250cc class got underway today and Yuki Takahashi was able to find a good setting and get more feedback for tomorrow’s crucial day of qualifying which decides the grid positions for Sunday’s Grand Prix of Spain. After finding the correct carburettor settings for his Honda RS250RW, Yuki tried hard in the last important laps of the afternoon to make a good lap time. Unfortunately the JiR Team Scot rider found some slower riders in front of him just as he aimed to make his best lap. The traffic meant that he was unable to end the session further up the on the time sheets.
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An ‘Attacking’ Race For Andrea Dovizioso
29 March 2008
Today’s qualifying session for the Spanish Grand Prix at Jerez didn’t fully show the potential of Andrea Dovizioso today. With race tyres he was able to record one of the best laps of the day and this makes the whole team think positively for the race tomorrow, which for Andrea will be a race of maximum attack! Although Dovi will be not in a good position on the starting grid, his character for the race will be aggressive as he tries to make places up on the leaders in the early laps. Thanks to his set-up in race-trim, the whole JiR Team Scot squad are still confident for tomorrow’s race.
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First Day At Jerez & Spanish GP For Andrea Dovizioso
28 March 2008
MotoGP has returned to Europe at Jerez for the Spanish GP. After an excellent debut in the first race of the year, the target today for JiR Team Scot was to improve performance of the Honda RC212V in such a way as to target the podium on Sunday afternoon. On a sunny day and in optimum conditions Andrea Dovizioso was testing all day some new Michelin tyres, as he tried to find a better setting and configuration during the build-up to tomorrow’s qualifying session.
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JiR Team Scot Ready For World Championship In Spain
25 March 2008
After the start of the championship at Qatar in the desert night, the MotoGP circus comes back to Europe to start round two of the championship in Spain at the wonderful circuit of Jerez de la Frontera on Sunday 30th March. JiR Team Scot has both riders in excellent spirits, thanks to their good results at the first round of the series. Both Andrea Dovizioso with his Honda RC212V and Yuki Takahashi with his 250GP two-stroke Honda have both shown that they can fight without fear of anyone against the best riders in each of the categories. They are both now looking forward to getting more good results at the Andalusian track, as the team morale is high thanks to the excellent work they have already done at the track in winter testing.
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Dovizioso Finishes An exciting 4th In First 2008 Race!
10 March 2008
Andrea Dovizioso attacked the Losail circuit tonight and took fourth place in an amazing race, in which he was always attacking. The 21-year-old Italian started in 9th position on the third row but always wanted to get to the front of the fight. Andrea battled hard in the final part of the race and eventually took fourth place following a very hard ride in the Losail darkness. After the previous sessions of the preceding days which didn’t show our rider’s value; the team found a technical configuration for the race which gave the JiR Team Scot rider a fast lap just 0.37 sec from the best at the circuit recorded in 2007. Tonight at Losail was a fantastic race for ‘The Silver Arrow’ now we look forward to Jerez.
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Dovizioso Starts On 3rd Row In Ninth Position
09 March 2008
Tonight’s very important qualifying session for the first MotoGP race of the season produced a lot of expectation and also came with some big surprises. Andrea Dovizioso, heading towards his first start in the MotoGP championship, gains a third row position for tomorrow’s race. Obviously JiR Team Scot wanted more than that with their previous testing form around the Losail circuit, but the atmosphere in the garage is serene ahead of tomorrow’s 22-lap race because their pace in race trim is very consistent and at a high level. In any case the third row looks is very special as the three riders on it have 11 world titles between them!
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Andrea Dovizioso With Fifth Fastest Time!
08 March 2008
Today’s first day of practice which kicks-off of this weekend’s 2008 MotoGP championship felt like the first day of school as it was the first real occasion for the teams to show the fans the results of all the hard work done during the winter tests. Tonight Andrea Dovizioso made his silver Honda shine under the lights at the Losail track. The lap time achieved showed that the Italian rider is in a very positive frame of mind at the start of the season managing to secure the 5th best lap time overall and becoming the first of the Italian riders on the time sheets. In the first session Andrea took the third-best lap time as he took time to verify things tested in the past week at Qatar. Andrea suffered a small crash today with no major injury for the rider, which didn’t interfere with the overall progress of the team.
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A Tough Tyre-Testing Day for Yuki Takahasi
03 March 2008
The second day has begun for the JiR Team Scot squad as they research tyre solutions and suspension settings ahead of the first round of the 250cc GP championship here in a week’s time. Today Yuki didn’t want to push too hard, as he wanted to work with both Dunlop and Showa technicians to improve the setting and ‘feel’ of the Honda RS250RW. At the end of the day the result is that JiR Team Scot are very satisfied with the result and tomorrow they hope to verify their whole technical package during the final day’s testing.
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