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25 May, 2016

Engine failure ‘very heavy’ title blow

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Rossi says that the engine failure at the Italian GP has hurt his chances of winning the title.

This year I am faster, I am more competitive. In the practice every time I am stronger but unfortunately I made a mistake in Austin, but Lorenzo and Marquez also made mistakes. But unfortunately this one’s very heavy. It was from Misano 2007 that my bike [last] broke in the race. But it can happen. I think that there was something wrong with both engines between Lorenzo and me, but the bigger difference is that Lorenzo’s happened in the warm-up and mine happened in the race. It’s a great shame also for the championship because I take the zero and also Lorenzo and Marquez arrived first and second, so now the distance from the top is 37 points. It’s very bad, it’s quite a big gap but the beautiful thing, the good thing, the positive aspect is that I was fast, I was strong. I was very, very fast in the race.

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Roger

Well, if you have known issue you should change engine and don’t understand this was not done on rossis bike, same as Nr:99… Iam Chief Engineer and work with engine hole my life.