Ducati worries Rossi Conditions

Ducati sport manager, Filippo Preziosi, asserted that current training programs she worried about Valentino Rossi, who might be disturbed. The reason is, "The Doctor" is still in the healing process of postoperative shoulder injury.

Italian rider, who has become the MotoGP legend, join Ducati next season after leaving Yamaha. However, preparations for the nine-time world champion motor racing was a bit annoyed at having to undergo shoulder surgery, after doing the post-season test at Valencia in November. Shoulder injury was caused by accident when the incident happened early Motocross season in 2010.

In an interview with Motosprint, Preziosi confirmed that the fitness Rossi alarming. This makes him somewhat pessimistic Rossi can not perform optimally in the official test debut in 2011 in Malaysia, beginning in February.

"Currently, things that worried me not a technical problem," says Preziosi.

"I can not imagine when he needs a good physical condition to appear aggressive on the track. Valentino will come to Sepang after going good recovery from a medical standpoint, but the physical conditions are far from expectations. Also, he did not break during the winter , but must try to restore the condition.

"Valentino will not have a chance to rest, while for the rider at that level, it is very important. Luckily, she has a super tough mentally, so that psychologically he will follow the race at a steady rate."

By reason of physical condition, according to Preziosi, is not impossible that Rossi did not have much opportunity to eat a lot of lap time trials. In fact, getting to know the characteristics of Ducati, it took a long enough time to test.

"We have to ask him not to get too much testing,"says Preziosi. "Temperatures are very high at Sepang and his condition is very extreme.

"The priority is that he quickly recovered 100 percent during the winter, so in February and March will be no problem sacrificing a lot of additional information from trials on the track.

"We must do so without all the tests as desired, for a better way, rather than forcing Valentino excessive activity but the recovery process is slow.

"Therefore, we just need a little time for his workout for the development of the motor. I do not want to risk Valentino in a state below 100 percent only because it is too tired from practice. We need to save energy during winter.

"But certainly, we must ensure that he will return to the track because he'll want to understand and develop the motor as possible. To do that, he'll do the exercises."