Rossi will use engine updates at Laguna MotoGP

Ducati's Valentino Rossi will benefit from the engine updates tested at Mugello when he rolls into California on Thursday for the Laguna Seca MotoGP round despite have half the session wiped out by a crash.

Ducati's Valentino Rossi will benefit from the engine updates tested at Mugello when he rolls into California on Thursday for the Laguna Seca MotoGP round despite have half the session wiped out by a crash.

The nine-time world champion's GP12 switched itself off on the entry to Correntaio and he had a small crash but Ducati stayed on at the track with Franco Battaini and Danoli Petrucci to further evalute the new parts and systems.

"Although my last test at Mugello was ended early, we were able to begin working with some details, and we’ll probably be able to use some of them at Laguna, even if we’re talking about a small percentage of the package that they’re working on at Ducati. Last year we went okay at Laguna, so we’ll see what happens this weekend," said The Doctor.

Team manager Vito Guareschi added: "At Laguna we’ll continue working with the settings that we’ve been perfecting for a few races according to our riders’ respective needs, and we’ll seal the fourth engines for both. Like the third one, already in use, it was made in a way that makes it possible to install new parts that are intended to improve rideability. For this race, we’ll have some of the updates that we tried at the Mugello test, and those will be followed in the next races by subsequent evolutions.”

By MotoGP desk

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