{"id":439,"date":"2009-11-12T11:04:19","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T17:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=439"},"modified":"2009-11-24T07:11:06","modified_gmt":"2009-11-24T13:11:06","slug":"valentino-rossi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/valentino-rossi\/","title":{"rendered":"Valentino Rossi: New bike feels great"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Valentino Rossi: New bike feels great<\/h1>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-442\" title=\"Rossi Valentino\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Rossi_Valentino.jpg\" alt=\"Rossi Valentino\" width=\"200\" height=\"196\" \/>World champion Valentino Rossi hailed a three-day end-of-season test at the Valencia circuit in southern Spain.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Italian, putting Fiat Yamaha&#8217;s new YZR-M1 through its paces, was third quickest on the last day.<\/p>\n<p>Valentino Rossi said: &#8220;The bike is already faster and already feels better than the old one. The throttle is easier to open. Yamaha have done a good job so far. I am happy with the work we have done.&#8221;<br \/>\nFirm base for Denning<\/p>\n<p>Rizla Suzuki team manager Paul Denning believes solid foundations have been laid for a competitive 2010 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Loris Capirossi and Alvaro Bautista spent time testing the Suzuki GSV-R at the Valencia track in southern Spain.<\/p>\n<p>Denning said: &#8220;These three days have been a good start towards the target of significantly improving our level, though the fundamental changes to the bike will come in February at Sepang.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Spies: Progress made<\/p>\n<p>Ben Spies was &#8220;really happy&#8221; with his test at Spain&#8217;s Valencia circuit.<\/p>\n<p>The American was aboard the Monster Yamaha Tech 3 YZR-M1 machine, which the 25-year-old rode for only the fifth time as he continued a seamless transition from World Superbikes.<\/p>\n<p>Spies said: &#8220;I feel I made a lot of progress. My data guy could see on the computer that I was riding with more of a MotoGP style. I gained confidence.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World champion Valentino Rossi hailed a three-day end-of-season test at the Valencia circuit in southern Spain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1104,1099,1103,958,1022,1102,1105,1100,1021,1101,1098],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-alvaro-bautista","tag-fiat-yamaha","tag-loris-capirossi","tag-motogp","tag-motogp-world-champion","tag-paul-denning","tag-rizla-suzuki","tag-suzuki-gsv-r","tag-valentino-rossi","tag-yamaha","tag-yzr-m1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}