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After a tough opening start to the 2009 season at Honda Gresini Toni Elías has a point to
prove.
The next round of the 2009 MotoGP World Championship is set to be a special
one for several participants in the three Grand Prix categories, with San Carlo Honda Gresini’s Toni Elías amongst
a group of riders who are on home ground in Catalunya.
Looking ahead to the
sixth round of the season this week at the official presentation of the Gran Premi Cinzano de Catalunya Toni Elìas
acknowledged his modest start to the year on his return to Fausto Gresini’s team and the rider cited that the Barcelona
visit as the chance to kick-start his campaign.
Although the Spaniards best
finish to date thus far has been ninth place, last week he finished in a disappointing 14th place at Mugello, Toni Elías
believes the competitiveness of his Honda RC212V package is at a decent level as he comes home to Barcelona.
When Toni Elías was asked for his thoughts ahead of his most important GP of the year he added,
“I think we are ready. We come here having found some improvements but without having shown it on track in terms of
results. We have had a bit of bad luck so far, so we will keep working and pushing hard. Hopefully it will be at Montmeló
where things change and we start to get the kind of results we are looking for.”
Toni Elías also said “We have had a few problems and it is hard to fight against them to put things right
but we are giving it all we can and we are getting better. We are working on our issues one by one and reducing them gradually
and we just need to make sure we aren't affected by bad luck or unexpected problems and hopefully at Montmeló we
will get our first strong result of the year, as we are getting close. The fans there are very important and they always give
us a push in terms of motivation, so we need to take advantage of that and get a good finish which we can build on.”
