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Saturday, 24th February 2007

The Ducati Xerox Team got their season off to a tough start at the Losail circuit in Qatar. Current World Champion Troy Bayliss and his team-mate Lorenzo Lanzi could only manage one podium between them in the two races.

Race two the team decided to make a change but it was in the wrong direction and things went from bad to worse. “In the second race we thought we couldn't do any worse and tried something different, we put the hardest tyre in the front which we used last year and we made a change to the rear suspension. The biggest problem we had was at the rear however because we had no feeling at all. It's a long year ahead, it wasn't a good start but that's racing! For sure I'll feel much more confident at Phillip Island, where the track is normally pretty constant and I'm looking forward to that," he concluded.

The Ducati team will now re-group and prepare for their assault on the undulating Phillip Island race track next weekend.

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