THE DUCATI XEROX JUNIOR TEAM CONCLUDE
FINAL TESTS AT VALENCIA

Valencia (Spain), 18th-20th March 2009: The Ducati Xerox Junior Team has spent three days completing final tests at Valencia before the 2009 racing season gets underway. The current World Champions carried out a great deal of work, checking that the various developments made throughout the winter have proved successful. Both Xavier Simeon and Daniele Beretta achieved great results and were able to clock up many fast laps. The perfect weather conditions, a sunny 25°C with a track temperature of 30°C, allowed each of the Ducati Xerox Junior riders to complete more than 220 laps, the best possible preparation for the opening race of the Superstock 1000 category that will take place on this very same track on the 5th April.

XAVIER SIMEON – “With these tests we complete the preparatory phase of the 2009 world championship, and the team has made a great start. This time we were fortunate to have great weather and the perfect conditions were probably very similar to those that we will face for the race here on 5th April. We came across some of the competition the track but the stopwatch tells us that we were lapping really very fast. I am very happy that the break is coming to an end, I can’t wait to get back to the racing in a season that is fundamental to my future.”

DANIELE BERETTA – “Valencia is a circuit that I know so I was happy to be able to conclude our preparation here, and on the same track at which we will race in a couple of weeks. We have had three intense days, and I made about 220 laps which proved extremely useful for checking the bike’s setting and the changes made by the team during the winter. I am not so far behind Xavier with regard to times but there is still much improvement to be made, as my reference remains my experience during the last seasons with the 600. I am satisfied and so excited, I just hope I can get off on the right foot, so as to thank all the people who have faith in me.”

SERAFINO FOTI – “After all the team’s hard work in the workshop this winter, we needed to go to the track to check the state of play and after these three days at Valencia we are extremely satisfied with the feedback of the team and riders. We have clocked up significant mileage, lapping with consistently fast times, a result that puts us in the right mental frame of mind ahead of the start of the season. It will be a difficult but exciting championship, and we are ready.”