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First Time in Assen in MotoGP for Elias
26 June 2008
After the last weekend of racing in Donington, MotoGP is back on track after only four days for the Dutch Grand Prix on the prestigious circuit in Assen. Maximum concentration for the Alice Team riders, Toni Elias and Sylvain Guintoli, who after respectively concluding in eleventh and thirteenth position in Great Britain, they want to grow to reach a better position in the MotoGP riders classification. It will be a particular weekend for Elias who even if he already had a four years experience in MotoGP, since 2005, he never made it to race here since he has joined the top class. For his teammate, Sylvain Guintoli, this will be the second time in Assen in the highest category after the fourteenth position obtained last year.
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Elias & Guintoli Full of Confidence After Barcelona Test
20 June 2008
Weather conditions haven’t surely helped the test done on the Montmelò circuit, in Barcelona, last Monday and Tuesday, but despite this the Alice Team riders, Toni Elias and Sylvain Giuntoli, are trustful to be able to fight for better positions in the next world championship appointment at Donington, England. The two riders, in fact, have sensibly improved their best lap time registered durin the race on the same circuit by a second, finding interesting solutions to use in the next races. The Spanish rider is looking for redemption after the distraction in his home race, in Barcelona, where he didn’t see the “jump start” sign and therefore disqualified. His teammate, Sylvain Guintoli, will have many motivations to do well also because the English circuit is really close to where he lives, not even thirty-minute drive.
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Elias & Guintoli Look for Precious Points In the 10th Alice GP
28 May 2008
The Alice Team is preparing for the Alice Grand Prix of Italy, where riders Toni Elias and Sylvain Guintoli will try their best to honour the tenth MotoGP race branded Alice, as it also is the title sponsor of the structure managed by Luis d’Antin. In fact, the brand Alice of Telecom Italia, present in Italy, France, Germany and Holland, has been the title sponsor of various MotoGP race since 2005. This will be for sure an extra motivation for the Alice Team riders to do well, as until this moment they haven’t obtained the hoped results awaited at the beginning of the season.
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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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Elias Wants To Win Again At Estoril
09 April 2008
Great anticipation for the third round of the MotoGP World Championship at the Estoril circuit in Portugal. Situated just a few kilometers from the portuguese capital, Lisbon, and not too far from the Atlantic coast, the circuit is characterized not only by a long straight and wide turns, but also from the varying weather conditions. In fact, also for this weekend of racing, the weather forecast seems to foresee rain until Friday morning, sunshine for the qualifying day and, again, some stormy clouds for Sunday. The circuit, today called Fernando Pires da Silva, was built in 1972 and has been part of the MotoGP World Championship since 2000.
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MotoGP Back In The Old Continent For Spanish GP
27 March 2008
In Jerez de la Frontera, town with more than two hundred thousand people, located in the southern part of Spain, the first European Grand Prix of the season will take place after the first exciting race of the year ridden at night in Qatar, where the Alice Team riders Toni Elias and Sylvain Guintoli have conquered their first world championship points of the 2008 season. The circuit is a firm point in the MotoGP calendar, in fact, after the track was built more than twenty years ago, in 1986, a race has taken place every year in the autonomous community of Andalusia.
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Alice Team Ready For The First MotoGP Season
04 March 2008
Sunday March 9th, in Qatar, the Alice Team adventure will begin in the 2008 MotoGP World Championship season. The new structure that will compete with the Ducati Desmosedici GP8 Sat and Bridgestone tyres has completed its winter testing on the Losail International circuit, in Doha, last Friday, preparing in the best way possible for this particular race. In fact, for the first time in the history of the MotoGP World Championship, the race will be held at night under an impressive floodlight system, supported by 44 Pramac generators, co-owner of the Team.
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Guintoli In 9th In The First Official Session Of The Year
18 February 2008
After this morning official presentation at the Spanish circuit of Jerez de la Frontera, the Alice Team was able to step on the track with the new colors that will be used during the upcoming season. The day began under heavy rain, which have limited the riders’ work during the morning. In early afternoon the weather conditions have improved, even if the track has remained wet for the afternoon official test. Young French rider Sylvain Guintoli has made it to enter the top ten in the first official session of the year, and he feel confident after this day of work. In the other side of the Alice Team garage, things didn’t go too well for Toni Elias, who has finished in nineteenth position.
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Alice Team Begins Its Advenrture From Jerez
17 February 2008
Everything is ready for the beginning of the Alice Team 2008 season, the Italic-Hispanic Team who has signed an agreement with Telecom Italia, will participate to the next two MotoGP World Championships with Alice Colours, the brand used by the Italian multinational for fast internet service. In Jerez de la Frontera, at the UFO - VIP Village in the Spanish circuit which will host, next march 30th, the first European round of the 2008 season, has been unveiled the new Ducati Desmosedici GP8 Sat livery which will be ridden by Spanish Toni Elias and Frenchman Sylvain Guintoli. To welcome the new Alice Team, Flippo Preziosi, Ducati Corse General Manager.
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No Points For The Pramac D'Antin In Estoril
17 September 2007
The fourteenth race in the World Championship finished with Valentino Rossi returning to his winning ways in flamboyant style, while Championship points leader, Casey Stoner, rode a measured race to finish comfortably in third place, almost all but securing the World Championship for Ducati within the next two races, the second coming at Casey's home race of Australia. Bad luck struck the two riders wearing Pramac D'antin colors, and neither rider was able to finish the race, despite their best efforts.
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Unfortunate Day For The Pramac D´antin Team
01 September 2007
Sunny skies and beautiful weather masked what was a very dark day for the Pramac Dántin riders. After an intense two hour morning free practice, due to the cancellation of two free sessions yesterday afternoon following a tremendous rain storm, the riders quickly recovered their strength and went back out in the afternoon for the Qualifying session. The goal was to find the optimum settings for the bike, but with the time lost because of the yesterday’s weather, what resulted was a not what the team had hoped for.
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Alex Barros 9th In Brno
20 August 2007
The 12th round of the MotoGP World Championship ended at the packed circuit of Brno circuit with Casey Stoner and his Ducati Desmosedici taking victory. The competitiveness of the red-blooded Borgo Panigale machines was confirmed once again with three Desmosedici GP7's finishing in the Top Ten. For the Pramac d’Antin Team, it wasn’t an easy race. Alex Barros, the Brazilian bomber, started from the fitfh row, and was forced to make a difficult comeback ride to finally achieve the ninth position, and with it, nine more important points for the Championship classification.
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Pramac D’Antin Resumes Action With Ivan Silva
10 August 2007
After the traditional mid-summer break, the MotoGP circus is preparing to head to the Czech Republic for the next round of this season’s championship which will see riders battle it out at the Brno circuit. On the back of two unlucky appointments in Germany and the United States, the Pramac d’Antin team is determined to achieve better results at the forthcoming race, even though regular rider Alex Hofmann will be unable to take part due to injuries sustained in a free practice crash at Laguna Seca last month.
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9th Position For Barros At Laguna Seca
25 July 2007
The race finish at Laguna Seca signaled the end of difficult weekend for the Pramac Dantin Team, who lost a rider earlier in the week when Alex Hofmann was injured on Friday morning's free practice, and also for Alex Barros, who rode through the pain of a hand unjury sustained in a crash at the previous race, one week prior. The Team breathes a sigh of contentment after these last six races in only eight weeks. The Brazilian, who started from the second last row on starting grid, made a good recovery, finishing his race in ninth place and scoring seven important points for the championship.
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Davies To Substitute Hoffman At Crash Laguna
22 July 2007
The Red Bull Laguna Seca Grand Prix kicked off at 10AM Friday morning, when the riders took to the track under gorgeous California sunshine and balmy weather conditions so different from the heat wave the year prior. 6 Laps into the first free practice session, Alex Hofmann, still recovering from an injured right hand, was brutally knocked off-track and into his Ducati when Sylvain Guintoli, himself a Laguna Seca and MotoGP rookie, missed his braking marker coming into the infamous Corkscrew, and collided with Hofmann at a high rate of speed.
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Pramac D’antin Team Flies To California
18 July 2007
Second consecutive race for the MotoGP protagonists who fly overseas to race the eleventh championship appointment on the extremely technical Californian track in Laguna Seca. For both Pramac d’Antin riders will be a very important round where they have to focus on the first positions. The Italo-Spanish Team guys are anxious to verify their good physical conditions, in spite of the accident to the right hand, to be able to exalt the very good performances of the Ducati – Bridgestone binomial, now leader in the championship.
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Alex Hofmann Ninth At His Home GP
16 July 2007
The tenth MotoGP championship appointment concluded with a hotly contested race characterized by a lot of crashes. In the sweltering heat of the afternoon sun at Sachsenring, which saw track temperatures soar past 50 degrees celsius, many riders were unable to finish their races, and unfortunately one of the victims of this situation was Alex Barros, who lost the front after nine laps and crashed. Fortunately, he did not injure his damaged right hand further, which was hurt in a large crash on Friday morning, and aside from additional aches and pains, Barros is ready for the upcoming Red Bull US Grand Prix in Monterey, California, just one week away.
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Hofmann Rides In The German Home GP
08 July 2007
After competing in the two consecutive North European races, the MotoGP bikers stop one week to prepare themselves for the tenth world championship appointment where they will be the real protagonists of the Germany race before flying to the US. Alex Barros, not completely satisfied after the result got in the Holland GP, is ready to redeem himself in Sachsenring, where, having already won the 2000 appointment and obtained the second place on podium in 2004, he has all the means to dispute a good competition.
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Top Ten For Both Barros & Hofmann In Assen
30 June 2007
The ninth championship appointment saw the Pramac d’Antin riders participate in the Dutch TT event at the Assen circuit in the Netherlands. Despite predictions, it was a dry race that enabled the Italian-Spanish Team to obtain important points for the Championship. Both Alex Barros and Alex Hofmann achieved top ten results finishing the 26-lap race in seventh and eighth places respectively, but despite the good results, neither rider was completely satisfied and had hoped for better results.
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Second Consecutive Race For Pramac D’Antin Team
26 June 2007
Concluded the eight race at Donington Park, Pramac d’ Antin Team moves to Holland to face the second consecutive North European appointment, that represents the ninth world championship MotoGP round. This time too, it will not be a simple race for the Pramac d’Antin guys who should compete one more time in a very technical track, surely not so easy from the set-up point of view, even though the Ducati Desmosedici demonstrated to be competitive in every kind of track. Another point of advantage could be the Bridgestone tires that last year proved to be able to reach the podium.
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