"Rossi Prepares for Sachsenring Showdown"

The Fiat Yamaha Team faces the first half of a transatlantic doubleheader this weekend as the MotoGP World Championship heads to Germany for the tenth round of the season, followed by a trip to the U.S. for the round eleven. The two races are separated by just seven days and a distance of about 9400 kilometers, representing a grueling final push before the four-week summer vacation.

The Sachsenring circuit traditionally produces about careers and Valentino Rossi unsurprisingly has been engaged in recent years, starring some of the most exciting MotoGP race finishes of all time. The most memorable was in 2006 when the Italian assault on the eleventh in the grill of his Yamaha to take home the closest top four in MotoGP and never separated as they were only 0307 seconds. Rossi, who is set to break Max Biaggi's record of 201 consecutive Grand Prix this weekend appearances, has had three other victories in Sachsenring in all classes and is willing to add to that tally as the season goes through its midseason ecuador with Dani Pedrosa on top of the ranking - only four points in the Italian.

Rossi took time away from his training schedule last weekend to visit Misano for Yamaha Fest, where they joined for the first time in his Fiat Yamaha team Jorge Lorenzo. After recovering his confidence with two sixth place finishes in the last two rounds, the 21-year-old Mallorcan is relaxed and ready to re-ignite their challenge
for the top positions on a circuit where only once previously has made the podium in the 250cc race in 2006.

Located in the heart of former East Germany, once glorious industry's racing motorcycles, the Sachsenring is built right next to the old road course, a characteristic shared with the track of Brno in the Czech Republic close. The second shortest way on the calendar has a number of relatively tight and slow corners juxtaposed with some dazzlingly fast that - including a stomach-down right-handed beating that was added in 2003.

Valentino Rossi - No more mistakes
"Last year at Sachsenring I made a mistake and crashed, and in the last race at Assen also erred, so I hope that now that I have had my bad time for this year! Sachsenring has been a great track for me in past and is a great place for career and is very tight and twisty but generally suits the Yamaha very well and in 2006 I had a fantastic career, winning 11. Let there having lost our classification, but we 're only four points behind so the situation is certainly much better than it was at this point last season. I was disappointed with myself in Assen, because I missed a great opportunity but I have to put behind me and I am totally focused on the next race now. We have to be at 100% of the first practice and hopefully we can have a good weekend with no more mistakes! "