[Ducati] BAYLISS AIMS FOR MORE WINS AT MAGNY COURS FINALE - CHEQUERED FLAG FOR 999

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Thursday Oct 4 2007 
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BAYLISS (DUCATI XEROX) AIMS FOR MORE WINS AT MAGNY COURS FINALE -  CHEQUERED 
FLAG FOR DUCATI 999 AFTER GLORIOUS CAREER 

Magny-Cours (France), Thursday 4 October : The 2007 World Superbike  
Championship draws to a close this weekend at the Magny-Cours circuit in central  
France with the final round of the season. 
 
Despite winning one of the two races at Vallelunga last Sunday, Ducati  Xerox 
Team's Troy Bayliss is now  unfortunately out of contention in the fight for 
the title, which has been  whittled down to just three riders - James Toseland 
(Honda), Max Biaggi (Suzuki)  and Noriyuki Haga (Yamaha).
Troy's win in the second race at the Rome track was his seventh this season,  
one behind the total of points leader Toseland, and the 41st of his career. 
The  tough 38-year-old Australian's only aim this weekend will be to end the 
season  in style with further wins to sign off the Ducati 999's glorious career. 
"My objective this weekend is to take the 999 out in style with a couple of  
wins" commented Troy. "This place was pretty good to me here last year, 
although  I didn't know the track very well. I should be able to slide straight into 
it  now, the bike was working well enough when we left Vallelunga and I'm 
just  looking forward to two really good results, especially now they've 
resurfaced  the whole track. Last year we suffered a little bit here but honestly I 
don't  think the other guys have got much stronger since the last race last 
year.  Yamaha for sure, Suzuki a little bit but the Honda not really that much, so 
I  don't think we'll be in that bad a situation." 
Lorenzo Lanzi gets ready to tackle his  final race within the factory Ducati 
Xerox Team, hopeful of obtaining two good  results to consolidate his sixth 
place in the final standings. 
"I'm sorry it's my last race with the guys in the team because we've I've had 
 a total of four years together, two of which in the factory Ducati Xerox 
Team,  but at the end of the day this is racing and I've had a number of chances 
in  those years", declared Lorenzo. "I'm looking to the future now, I've got a 
nice  offer on the table and I'll still be racing with a Ducati. Now it's 
time to  focus on this race, which I won in 2005. Obviously for this reason 
Magny-Cours  is a track that I like so I'd just like to be in a position to repeat 
that  result in some way. You never know, nothing is impossible!" 
In the Manufacturers' championship, Ducati currently lie third, just 12  
points behind the leaders Honda, but anything could happen this weekend to  
overturn the final classification. 
Championship Points (after 12 of 13  rounds): Riders - 1. Toseland (Honda) 
396; 2. Biaggi (Suzuki) 367; 3. Haga  (Yamaha) 363; 4. Bayliss (Ducati Xerox) 
341; 5. Corser (Yamaha) 267; 6. Lanzi  (Ducati Xerox) 192; 7. Xaus (Ducati) 187; 
8. Rolfo (Honda) 177; 9. Neukirchner  (Suzuki) 136; 10. Fabrizio (Honda) 123. 
Manufacturers - 1. Honda 420; 2. Yamaha  417; 3. Ducati 408; 4. Suzuki 386; 
5. Kawasaki 165; 6. MV Agusta 1. 
The Circuit
Name:  Magny-Cours
Length: 4.411 km
Pole Position: right
Corners Left/Right:  9/6
Finish line length: 250 m 
Statistics : Lap Record - Bayliss  (Ducati) 1m40.370s; Best Lap - Corser 
(Suzuki) 1m39.147s (2006); Superpole -  Corser (Suzuki) 1m39.147s (2006);  
2006 Results : Race 1 - 1. Toseland  (Honda); 2. Haga (Yamaha); 3. Corser 
(Suzuki). Race 2 - 1. Bayliss (Ducati); 2.  Corser; 3. Toseland. 
TV Coverage Europe: Eurosport 2 (Pan  European) - Saturday, 1730 Superpole 
(live); Sunday, 1030 Superstock 1000  (live), 1200 SBK Race 1 (live), 1530 SBK 
Race 2 (live). TV Coverage Italy: La 7 (Italy) - Saturday,  1550 Superpole 
(live); Sunday, 1140 SBK Race 1 (live), 1520 SBK Race 2 (live).  RaiDue (Italy) - 
Sunday, 1730 SBK Race 1 + 2 (highlights). 




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