HAPPY END OF SEASON

Redding and Vázquez have reached their objectives in 125cc

Clean fight for the points between Arcas and Hernández at Valencia

The Blusens Aprilia team has finished today his participation on the 2008 World Championship with a good taste after the celebration of the GP of Valencia. In this last race of the season his raiders have known to reach in main lines their expectations. In 125cc Scott Redding (8th) has finished again in another brilliant Top10 and he has been confirmed as the greatest revelation of the year. Proof of this is that tonight he is going to receive the prize as the Rookie of the year, within the ceremony that will serve to close the present edition of the MotoGP World Championship. The actuation of Efrén Vázquez (12th) today at Valencia has also been very meritorious, considering that he was riding with his left had broken. Not only he has been able to complete the race but he has scored four new points for the Championship.
 
In the 250cc category Dani Arcas (14th) and Manuel Hernández (16th) started off with the complicated challenge to end the season entering the points. Both riders have carried out an intense battle to strain themselves in the Top 15, where the Catalan rider has been the winner. This way Arcas has managed to reach what he planed when he arrived to the Bluesens Aprilia with four rounds to end the season. In Japan, Australia and Malaysia he made an important adaptation work, and here in Valencia he has finished that work in the best possible way. In order to Hernández he has finished very close to the points, after a tough race in which he has suffered hard problems with his rear tyre from the beginning of it.
 
Ricard Jové, General Manager of the Spanish team, assured after this GP of Valencia that “although there will be time to realize more detailed analyses, like a first conclusion we can say that this season has been a very good season. We have reached our first ever GP victory and we have finished only one point behind the Top 10 of the 125cc category. Moreover all the work done for the riders and the mechanics has been excellent and it will serve for us to start the next season with more ambition and thinking in doing another quality step ahead. There is much to be thankful to all the team and all our sponsors”.
 
Scott Redding (125cc – 8th - 41’15”134 - 1’42”173) “In the end I have finished quite well in a weekend full of difficulties. I had not been able to feel comfortable during the practices and this way the race started very complicated. So I’m happy to finish again within the Top 10 of the race because I think that it is a pretty way of finishing this great season. I have won a race and I have finished as the Rookie of the category and this is not something that you reach everyday. I give thanks to all the people that have been near me for their effort”.
 
Efrén Vázquez (125cc – 12th - 41’34”181 - 1’43”074) “I’m the first one surprised with my performance today. I arrived to Valencia with so few options of riding and in the end I have finished with four points. It’s near a feat. I have suffered a lot for the injury but the effort has been worth the pain. In the middle of the race I’ve been so close to leave the race but I’ve told myself that I was able to follow one more lap. And that way step by step I have pushed until the end. It has helped my much the support of the fans and the work of the doctors and of the team”.
 
Dani Arcas (250cc – 14th - 45’08”113 - 1’39”142) “When you reached your objectives you can be satisfied. And this is my case today. When I arrived to the World Championship the maximum I could expect was to score any point before the end of the season and I have done it. I haven’t made a very good start but immediately I have passed some riders and I have reached Manuel. I was comfortable riding with him and I was able to ride still some tenths faster. With two laps to go I have made my attack and it’s been satisfactory. I can only say thanks to all my people and to the Blusens Aprilia team for the chance they have given me.
 
Manuel Hernández (250cc – 16th - 43’30”468 + 1 lap - 1’39”662) “I’m disappointed because I was so close the points but I have lost them in the last moment. The truth is that it has been a very though race because I have had problems with my rear tyre from the beginning. This difficulty has gone to more and due to that reason at the end of the race my bike was uncontrollable and I wasn’t nearly able to open gas. Anyway I finish happy with my return to the World Championship and I thank to all the team to let me the chance to enjoy myself with the best riders of the world”.