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Friday, July 24, 2009
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Hayden determined to keep Ducati ride Nicky Hayden says he wants to stay on at Ducati for 2010 as he is determined to get to grips with its bike despite his tough start. Like Casey Stoner’s previous team-mates at the Italian squad, Hayden has struggled to adapt his riding style to the Desmosedici. An accident in Qatar also set him back, but in recent events his form has improved, with a breakthrough fifth place at Laguna Seca and fourth on the grid - the best qualifying position for any of Stoner’s Ducati team-mates - in Germany. Whereas both Loris Capirossi and Marco Melandri moved on from Ducati after just one difficult year alongside Stoner, Hayden says he hopes to convince Ducati to keep him on for another season. “It’s a two-year deal but it’s their option if they want to bring me back,” he told AUTOSPORT. “It’s been hard but now we’re making progress. I looked at this as a challenge from the beginning and I don’t want to give up. I want to say hey I conquered it, I was able to ride that bike, I was able to do it. We’ll see if they want
U.S rider Nicky Hayden waits for the start of the MotoGP practice session of the German Motorcycle Grand Prix at the Sachsenring circuit in Hohenstein-Ernstthal, Germany, Saturday, July 18, 2009. AP Photo/Roberto Pfeil
Raikkonen: Hungary is big opportunity
Kimi Raikkonen believes the Hungarian Grand Prix will be one of Ferrari’s best chances to fight at the front this season. Monte Carlo was Raikkonen’s strongest race of the year so far, and he reckons the similarly twisty Hungaroring will prove equally well-suited to the Ferrari - which he thinks could prove crucial as the team is set to switch its focus to 2010 soon afterwards. “The next race will definitely be the most similar one to the one at Monaco,” said Raikkonen. “This year we gained a place on the podium at Monaco and this is our objective for Budapest. We were able to fight for the pole [in Monaco] until the last moment and I think
that if we had gained it, the race would have gone in a completely different direction.” But he acknowledged that with all the teams having carried out significant development programmes since Monte Carlo, form on the street track back in May might no longer be relevant this weekend. “We’ll retry in Hungary, but it will be difficult,” said the former champion. “The F60 should adapt pretty well to the track, but we know that all the other teams have improved their cars considerably after the race at Monaco, so there will be fierce competition. We’ll get a better picture of the situation on Friday morning after the first free practice.” Team boss Stefano Domenicali
revealed that Ferrari would switch most of its efforts to its 2010 car “in the next couple of weeks”, and Raikkonen admitted that the remainder of 2009 could prove tough with development on the disappointing F60 set to conclude. “We’ve been working hard to close the gap we had since the start between us and the leaders; naturally also all the others have been improving their cars,” he said. “Furthermore with the fact that we can’t test this year during the championship it’s even more difficult to make up ground. How the season’s second part will go also depends on the decision of how to use the resources, because the work on next year’s car is now already in full swing.”
to bring me back.” He admitted that so far he had probably not done enough to earn a contract extension. “I know at some stage I’m going to have to put up some results, I know fifth and eighth probably isn’t going to be enough to get Marlboro or Ducati - they might want to try somebody else at that spot,” said Hayden. “We’ll see, but I’m not too worried about that. Obviously you worry about your future and what’s going on but I think we can continue.” Hayden’s Sachsenring weekend
went downhill after he crashed heavily both late in qualifying - collecting Niccolo Canepa in the process - and in the warm-up, and his strong fourth on the grid only translated to an eighth place finish. He reckoned that he had got carried away and pushed too hard in his hurry to turn his season around. “I believe in myself a lot. That’s maybe what caught me out a bit in Germany and why I crashed a couple of times,” said Hayden. “I saw the front and thought I can be there this weekend, got a bit excited and threw it away making a mistake. But I believe in myself fully, that’s not what I’m lacking. But sitting around here saying it is one thing, doing on Sunday is always a different story. Saying it doesn’t mean much, I’ve got to go and do it and prove it. But I think I can.”
Friday, July 24, 2009 Japanese soldiers and firefighters work around a house that was hit by a torrential mudslide at Hofu, southern Japan, on Wednesday July 22, 2009. Hundreds of police, soldiers and rescue workers searched Thursday for nine people missing after torrential rains triggered floods and landslides in southern Japan.
Bali’s Police Department tighten coastal area
Malaysian woman accepts flogging for drinking beer
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Death toll rises to 11 from Japan landslides, floods
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TOKYO - Rescue workers recovered a woman’s body Thursday from mud and rubble that filled a nursing home after a landslide, raising to 11 the death toll after heavy rains hit western Japan, police said.
Soldiers, police and emergency services staff continued their search for seven people still missing in the aftermath of floods and landslides triggered two days ago by rainy-season torrential downpours in the region. “Search operations are getting more and more difficult, but we are working on the assumption that there are survivors,” said a police spokes-
man by telephone from hard-hit Yamaguchi prefecture on Honshu island. One person was still missing on the mud-filled ground floor of the nursing home where at least six people died when a large landslide Tuesday hit the building in Hofu City, 750 kilometres (470 miles) west of Tokyo. Continued on page 6
KUALA LUMPUR - A Malaysian woman sentenced to flogging for drinking beer has accepted the Islamic court’s order, saying she wants the punishment to be carried out soon, news reports said Thursday. Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno, a 32-year-old model, was arrested on charges of drinking beer after Islamic authorities raided a hotel nightclub last year. She was sentenced Monday to six lashes with a rattan cane after pleading guilty in the Shariah High Court. Consuming alcohol is a religious offense in Malaysia only for Muslims, who make up nearly twothirds of the population. Offenders are prosecuted in Shariah courts, which handle cases mainly related to family and moral issues for Muslims.
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This picture taken on 20 July, 2009 shows Singaporean Muslim model Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno looking on at the Sharia High Court in Kuantan, Pahang State