Photos From Alvaro's MotoGP Test; Day One

We sstayed on after the Valencia GP at the weekend for the testing sessions, where Alvaro made his debut on a MotoGP bike over three days with his new team Suzuki.
There's more pics on our other sites, but enjoy these anyway...

Alvaro Recovering From Surgery On Collarbone

Although I´m still abroad and on holiday I had to post up a quick note to cover the fact that Alvaro has had surgery to fix a broken collarbone following a crash in testing at the weekend.
As always the best thing to do to get all the latest news updates and comment is to go over to the BatiFans.com fan forum where it is being covered in out topic on the Valencia Test.

All that remains for me to say for now is thanks to Miguel for sending me on the news, and of course best wishes to Bati himself for a speedy recovery.
Get well soon Alvaro - Abrazos :-)

gb

Valencia Testing - Day 1

Team Aspar were at Valencia, running both 125 and 250 bikes.
Here's how the 250s fared...
1.- Álvaro Bautista ESP Aprilia 1.37.1 53 laps
2.- Gabor Talmacsi HUN Aprilia 1.38.1 41 laps
3.- Mike di Meglio FRA Aprilia 1.38.9 55 laps

Keep up with all the news, stats, pics and comment here...

Quotes from Alvaro - Valencia Test

A few words from Bati following the Valencia testing at Cheste, courtesy of DailyMotos - and trasnlated with the help of Babelfish which kept insisting on translating Jerez as 'sherry'... ;)
"After three days in Jerez and three days here it is necessary to rest a little now. Here we have proven several things and mainly we have seen where it is possible to be improved further and that is very important. We have worked hard here but the feeling has not been as good as in Jerez although I go away satisfied... "

The overall tone of their piece was that things were basically going pretty well - and despite the odd note about not being as good as Jerez, it's nice to hear Bati sounding reasonably happy with things :)

Valencia Tests: Jan 29-31 2008: Day 3

DAY 3 (31/01/08)
250cc
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1 Álex Debón Aprilia 1.35.537 28 laps
2 Mika Kallio KTM 1.35.556 32 laps
3 Julián Simón KTM 1.35.861 48 laps
4 Álvaro Bautista Aprilia 1.36.135 35 laps
5 Héctor Faubel Aprilia 1.36.145 36 laps
6 Héctor Barbera Aprilia 1.36.158 25 laps
7 Aleix Espargaró Aprilia 1.36.214 54 laps
8 Mattia Pasini Aprilia 1.36.383 63 laps
9 Roberto Locatelli Gilera 1.36.579 59 laps
10 Marco Simoncelli Gilera 1.36.635 34 laps
11 Alex Baldolini Aprilia 1.37.154 30 laps
12 Lukas Pesek Aprilia 1.37.288 32 laps
13 Fabrizio Lai Aprilia 1.38.026 49 laps
14 Eugene Laverty Aprilia 1.38.318 39 laps
15 Imre Toth Aprilia 1.38.875 29 laps
16 Doni Pradita Yamaha 1.39.066 41 laps
17 Russel Gómez Aprilia 1.39.621 49 laps
18 Hiroshi Aoyama KTM
19 Federico Sandi Aprilia
18 Karel Abraham Aprilia
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Valencia Tests: Jan 29-31 2008: Day 2

Only 7th today - on the face of it, a bit disappointing, but then this isn't merely an all-out speed test; there could be all kinds of work going on that doesn't require Alvaro to be heading up the timesheets...

Valencia Tests: DAY 2
250cc

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1. Marco Simoncelli, Gilera - 1'35.447 (64)
2. Mika Kallio, KTM - 1‘35.485 (46)
3. Héctor Barbera, Aprilia - 1'35.741 (60)
4. JuIin Simön, KTM - 1'35.753 (52)
5. Alex Debön, Aprilia - 1'35.841 (35)
6. Hiroshi Aoyama, KTM - 1'35.979 (33)
7. Alvaro Bautista, Aprilia - 1'36.100
8. Héctor Faubel, Aprilia - 1'36.171 (34)
9. Thomas Lüthi, Aprilia - 1'36.195 (22)
10. Roberto Locatelli, Gilera - 1'36.545 (59)
11. Aleix Espargaró, Aprilia - 1‘36.565 (52)
12. Mattia Pasini, Aprilia - 1'36.747 (53)
13. Alex Baldolini, Aprilia - 1'36.854 (36)
14. Lukas Pesek, Aprilia - 1'37.240 (48 )
15. Federico Sandi, Aprilia - 1'37.659 (29)
16. Fabrizio Lal, Aprilia - 1'37.928 (55)
17. Eugene Laverty, Aprilia - 1‘37.992 (46)
18. Imre Toth, Aprilia - 1'38.535 (32)
19. Doni Tata Pradita, Yamaha - 1‘38.995 (58 )
20. Russel Gómez, Aprilia - 1'39.597 (49)
21. Karel Abraham, Aprilia
21. Manuel Poggiali, Aprilia
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Valencia Tests: Jan 29-31 2008: Day 1

Valencia Testing: Cheste
DAY ONE
29/01/08
250cc
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1. Mika Kallio, KTM - 1'35.2
2. Julian Simón, KTM – 1’35.9
3. Marco Simoncelli, Gilera – 1’35.9
4. Aleix Espargaró, Aprilia – 1’36.1
5. Alvaro Bautista, Aprilia – 1’36.3
6. Alex Debón, Aprilia – 1’36.3
7. Héctor Barbera, Aprilia – 1’36.3
8. Héctor Faubel, Aprilia – 1’36.5
9. Thomas Lüthi, Aprilia – 1’36.5
10. Hiroshi Aoyama, KTM – 1’36.5
11. Mattia Pasini, Aprilia – 1’36.6
12. Karel Abraham, Aprilia - 1‘36.6
13. Roberto Locatelli, Gilera – 1’37.4
14. Federico Sandi, Aprilia – 1’37.4
15. Lukas Pesek, Aprilia – 1’37.6
16. Alex Baldolini, Aprilia – 1’37.6
17. Fabrizio Lai, Aprilia – 1’37.7
18. Manuel Poggiali, Aprilia – 1’38.4
19. Imre Toth, Aprilia – 1’38.9
20. Eugene Laverty, Aprilia – 1’39.4
21. Russell Gómez, Aprilia – 1’41.1
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