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Menuju ke perlumbaan pusingan ke-dua perlumbaan, pelumba MotoGP kali ini akan meneruskan perlumbaan hujung minggu ini di Argentina.  Bagi pasukan Movistar Yamaha, mereka telah menemui kejayaan berikutan masalah berkaitan setting bahagian depan motosikal lumba mereka.  Rossi bergelut dengan masalah keyakinan terhadap tayar terbaru Michelin yang dirasakan terlalu lembut kelita memasuki selekoh.  Masalah ini sudah berlarutan di sepanjang ujian pra-musim tahun ini namun ia dapat diselesaikan sebaik perlumbaan pembuka tirai di Qatar, dua minggu lepas.   Bermula di petak ke sepuluh berdasarkan kombinasi masa tebaik bagi sesi latihan bebas, Rossi hanya mampu mencatatkan masa ke-13 terbaik ketika sesi memanaskan badan, di hari perlumbaan.  “Ia bukanlah perlumbaan pembuka tirai yang mudah untuk kejohanan tahun ini,” kata Rossi.  “Kami bekerja keras ketika ujian pra-musim namun kami gembira kerana pada hujung minggu perlumbaan pertama,...

Ducati may have conducted more tests with its radical 'hammerhead' fairing, but the factory does not plan to submit the design for MotoGP use just yet.   The Italian factory debuted its exotic answer to the ban on external wings during the pre-season test in Qatar, but opted to homologate a 'normal' fairing for use during the race weekend, where Andrea Dovizioso finished a close second to Maverick Vinales. And while the F1-style 'hammerhead' was then seen painted in official Ducati race colours for the first time during this week's private Jerez test, it will not be homologated for use in the upcoming events.   "We have no plans to homologate it for the moment. We are still working on it," a Ducati spokesman told Crash.net.   Ducati, like the four other manufacturers subject to the new 'Aero Body' homologation rules, can only submit one more fairing design during the 2017 season, hence the need to make sure it is optimise...