Bayliss: I want to go out with a couple more wins -ozzy go- ducati.com

SBK reaches fever pitch with penultimate round at first-
time Vallelunga circuit

Vallelunga (Italy), Thursday 27 September : The World Superbike
Championship reaches the penultimate round of 13, which takes
place this weekend at the Vallelunga circuit on the outskirts of
Rome. The production-based racing series will be competing for
the first time ever at the Italian track, which over the years has
been spruced up and lengthened to 4.110 km to accommodate
international racing competition.

As a circuit, Vallelunga offers a mixed technical challenge to the
World Superbike riders, who have to tackle several relatively fast
and sweeping corners before entering the final slow and twisty
part of the track.

Troy Bayliss (Ducati Xerox) added one more win to his season
tally three weeks ago in the German round at the Eurospeedway.
This enabled the 38 year-old Australian to close the gap to points
leader James Toseland (Honda), but he remains in fourth place
and a repeat of his 2006 title win is now extremely unlikely even
though still theoretically possible. With four more points-scoring
races still to be held, here and in France, Troy will realistically be
aiming for third in the table, although the runner-up slot could
also be on the cards.

Troy Bayliss, 4th in championship (296 points)
Troy tested here in the official FGSport tests at the start of July,
ending up second quickest behind Ruben Xaus (Ducati). Last
week's private session at the Ducati Xerox Team's chosen test
track enabled him to put some more mileage in but it mainly
involved sorting out the new 1098 F08 machine.

"We did test there last week but basically we were getting a feel
for the new bike so we didn't learn a lot to help us in the race"
said Troy. "I'm really looking forward to racing at Vallelunga and
trying to improve my overall position because right now I'm
fourth and there's a possibility that I could better that. Second is
a good possibility, third looks a bit more realistic, but most
important is that I want to go out with a couple more wins. I like
Vallelunga because it's got a lot of character about it. It's a very
physical track especially the first section because you're in sixth
and fifth gear so whenever you have to change direction you
have to put a lot of physical input into the bike, and the rest of it
is quite 'Mickey Mouse', but it's a track where spectators will
enjoy and it could make for good racing so I'm really interested
to see how it's going to pan out." click on ozzy go to the full story