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Monday, 31st March 2008

Valentino Rossi's losing streak may have grown to six races, but second place in Sunday's Spanish Grand Prix marked the Italian's first podium since last October's Australian Grand Prix - and his 100th in the premier class.

"[On Monday] we will have one day of testing and we will do our best in order to be in good shape for Estoril," he added. "This is Valentino's 100th podium and also the first one with Bridgestone, so it's a special day, but we hope that there will be many others!"

"It is great that Yamaha and Valentino have taken their first podium using our tyres," said Bridgestone's Hiroshi Yamada. "It was even more pleasing that Valentino was the first of the four Yamaha riders to finish the race, so congratulations to them."

The next best Bridgestone rider after Rossi was Rizla Suzuki's Loris Capirossi, who finished in fifth place - some 25 seconds behind The Doctor's M1.

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