Ja, och det har talats om att ev. visa racet på Red Bull Rookies hemsida, men
det är inget jag har fått bekräftat än. Jag har mailat och frågat. Det skall
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MotoGP Rookies Cup Starts This Weekend At Jerez With Live Online TV
Rookies TV goes live as the Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup starts in Jerez
The future World Champions begin their battle for the 2009 Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup this coming weekend as part of the Spanish Grand Prix at Jerez. The 3rd Rookies season starts with two races, one on Saturday May 2nd and one on Sunday May 3rd, the beginning of an 8 race Cup.
The promotion of Rookie talent has got another boost with the news that one of this year's Cup favourites, the 17 year old Norwegian Sturla Fagerhaug, will have the first of a number of Wild Card rides as part of the factory Red Bull KTM 125 team at the following Grand Prix in France. Cameron Beaubier, his team mate for that event, is also an ex Rookie and with Lorenzo Savadori, Matt Hoyle and Johann Zarco all ex Rookies with regular GP rides this year the alumni are starting to populate the 125 GP class.
This season for the first time fans will be able to watch the Rookies races live thanks to a satellite feed to the Rookies Cup website
www.redbullrookiescup.com and this will continue all year. After the event the recorded races will remain on the Rookies TV section of the site. All the Rookies races and other features will also be available to broadcast media through Red Bull's content pool at
www.redbullcontentpool.com
None of those battling in Spain will be thinking about the fact that previous Jerez winners have not gone on to win the Cup and favourite going into the opening round is Fagerhaug, who was a close 3rd in the 2008 Cup behind double Jerez winner Luis Salom.
Fagerhaug was quickest at the Jerez pre-season test but is far too level headed to assume that this is any kind of guarantee especially as 14 year old Japanese Daijiro Hiura, fastest in the opening pre-season test in Estoril, missed the second day in Jerez as he had to return home to school.
"I love the track," says Fagerhaug. "It's been resurfaced and is smoother than it was before, it's got fast corners, some tricky ones. It's a lot of fun."
The home country advantage goes to Daniel Ruiz and the 17 year old from Pamplona pushed absent Hiura out of second spot on practice times late in the second day of the test. "I know that everyone is going to be faster at the race," said Ruiz. "I enjoy the track but it is going to be very tough, there are so many fast riders and our times from the test are not important."
One of those hoping that Ruiz is right is Deane Brown, the 16 year old Scot, who scored 2 third places at last year's season opener in Jerez but was only 11th fastest at the test. He suffered an early fall when another rider's crashing machine took him out and that left him with an injured elbow that hampered him for the rest of the test. "It was just a bit of bad luck but at least we ended up with a good bike setting. I'm fit now and really looking forward to the races. Last year was good but I'm going for 2 wins in Jerez this year, I'll not be happy with anything else."
Another Briton who was hampered by injury after a fall was 15 year old Danny Kent, it was an injured wrist that kept him down in 8th place. "I think we still have some work to do on the bike because it didn't work as well as it did at Estoril and my wrist was stopping me riding the way I should so it wasn't easy to sort it out."
It the same injured-riders club was Benny Solis winner of the 2008 Red Bull AMA U.S. Rookies Cup, he suffered a nasty injury to the little finger of his left hand at the Estoril test and was struggling to learn the Jerez track and set a good time. The 14 year old Californian was 19th fastest with fellow countryman, 15 year old, Jake Gagne ahead in 13th and 14 year old Kentuckian Hayden Gillim 23rd.
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Valentino Rossi
"We’ve made a good start to the season with two podiums which shows we are consistent, but now we need to make the step up. Motegi was a good race but we had one or two problems, which we need to fix. We have a lot of data from Jerez because we tested there twice in the winter so I hope that this will help us to find a good setting straight away. I also hope that the weather is good because we’ve had two difficult races for this and I have had enough of the rain now! As a rule we are very strong at the track and it is always great fun riding there. I love Jerez, it’s always a brilliant atmosphere and the fans make a big, big party for three days; I hope I can be part of the party this time! The championship is becoming very interesting now so let’s hope for an exciting race this weekend.”
Jorge Lorenzo
“My motivation is high because I am arriving as the World Championship leader in my own home. I can’t ask for more! I had a very good feeling in Japan, and I enjoyed riding the bike in every corner. I have to be careful however because I am still learning all the time how to ride with the new Bridgestone tyres. I think that Jerez is maybe one of the most special circuits in the world, to be a MotoGP rider there is like a dream, all the people surrounding you… The last test in Jerez was very good. I was always in the three first positions so I hope to be fast from the start this weekend. I would like another podium, like last year in Jerez and like the first two races in 2009. I am confident!”
Loris Capirossi
"I have been very disappointed with the first two races because the weather has meant we haven't been able to get the work done that we have wanted to on the bike, so it is good to go to a track where we have done some testing at already this year. We are going there with a good base setting and that should make the bike work pretty well straight out of the box. I am aiming for a high position this week, not just for me, but for all my crew and everyone at Suzuki because they really deserve it!"
Chris Vermeulen
"I'm really looking forward to this weekend in Jerez, it's a great circuit and has an iconic feel to it - I've certainly watched many of my heroes race around there! We had a very good pre-season test there and I am looking forward to getting back on track and making the most of what we discovered there last month, in terms of set-up and tyre performance - especially as the track had just been re-surfaced. I hope that I can qualify on at least the front two rows and then I'll be able to challenge at the front right from the start and try to get on the podium!"
Casey Stoner
“I’ve never really done well at Jerez but in the winter test we worked well and set some quick times so we’ll try to use that as the base for a positive weekend. You need good handling at this track and a bike that allows you to get into the corner quickly and then onto the gas straight away, as well as having good stability. I think we’ve taken a step forward in this area with the GP9 and as long as we don’t get bad weather or some other kind of setback then we should find a good set-up for Jerez. Some of our better tracks are coming up later in the season but if we stay focused and keep working as we are doing then we can still put some decent results on the board. The start of the season has been better for us this year than it was last year so we have to try and keep our standards up.”
Nicky Hayden
“I can’t deny that it’s been a tough start to the season, especially in Japan, but we have to move on and look ahead. Now we go to Jerez and even though we didn’t have a great test there in March, things are different now. At Motegi I felt as though the communication within the team had improved, the work we’re doing together as a group is becoming more smooth, so I’m looking forward to starting again at Jerez with a clear and positive mind. I don’t even want to think about the possibility of it raining again there! At the moment it looks like the forecast is good but it seems as though somebody upstairs likes seeing MotoGP riders in the wet! Joking aside, it would be nice to have a ‘normal’ weekend so that we can work properly on the bike. I want my season to finally get going!”