He put his head down with five laps to go and just made that initial one second gap in one lap. Then I pushed hard on the next lap and I made a small mistake that cost my big bit of time and it was too late then and there was nothing I could do. So a bit of cat and mouse I guess and I got caught out a little bit but that is racing you know. Monza is always a tough race, so much grafting is involved you can make up a lot of time on the straights. Unfortunately the Ducati is a little bit stronger out of the first hair pin and also out of the Parabolica onto the straights. It pulled half a second or so and I’d make up a quarter of a second and then he’d pull half and second and I’d make up a quarter, it was just going back and forth. The Suzuki was strong, it was fast, and the Ducati was very fast and strong, stronger than what we thought it would be here. Obviously they have got a full package and that is why they won.
At the moment I’m just taking each race weekend as it comes. After Valencia I was looking forward to coming to Monza, the bike went well there last year, and now this weekend we scored good points again. We can’t be too unhappy with a second and a third for the championship, there are still all lot of races to go and it is important to score points and to be on the podium if possible in every race. We’ve had our bad luck, Troy hasn’t had any bad luck at all in fact he has had a fair share of good luck. He has nearly crashed a few times and he has managed to stay on so, I’m not wishing that he crashes but he may end up running off the track somewhere of running wide and we’ll get some points back on him.
The racing is so close between me and Troy that there isn’t much in it, if you lose just a couple of tenths in a lap then that can be enough to lose the race. When you are racing someone who can go to the same lap times it’s very hard to make time up, if you are racing someone who is a little bit slower then you can make time but both me and Troy are riding ten tenths. It was no different at Valencia to what we did here in the second race and like I said I’m happy, if I can race like that and do my best and if we finish second we finish second. It is getting a bit frustrating finishing behind him, like I said we have a lot of races to go, a lot of tracks where I feel we can be strong again so we will see.
