Melandri: One year contract with Hayate Racing

Marco Melandri will contest the 2009 season as a Hayate Racing rider in a single-rider, single-year deal, the Italian has confirmed to motogp.com. His previous two-year contract with Kawasaki has been torn up and a new agreement hastily arranged in time for the start of the coming season, one in which he will ride a Ninja ZX-RR with no further factory development.

Melandri 向GP記者證實將在2009年賽季為Hayate Racing車隊出賽，是個單一年和單一車手的合約。他先前與川崎的兩年合約沒有履行，只能趕在賽季開始前尋求新合約，取得一輛沒有車廠協助的川崎ＺＸ－ＲＲ。

“The contract with Kawasaki has been cancelled. I had to make a big financial sacrifice, but the most important thing that I wanted was to find trust,” he said on Thursday morning, just over a week on from his first testing appearance of 2009 in Qatar.

＂和川崎的合約已被取消，為了出賽我必須做出更大的退讓，但是更重要的是我希望可以找到信任的合作夥伴＂Melandri 在週四早上向記者說，就在第一次在Qatar測試之後一週。

“I have nothing to lose. One month ago I had one foot outside the World Championship, and now I have a team that is working solely for me. My motivation is this, and to show Kawasaki that they made a mistake in choosing to pull out their factory support.”

"我沒有什麼可以輸的。在一個月前我有一腳站在競賽行列之外，但是現在我有一支完全為我工作的隊伍，這讓我更有衝勁去證明川崎退出賽事是一個錯誤。"

His future confirmed, next on Melandri’s agenda is finding solutions to some of the problems experienced in Qatar. Although he was some way off the fastest riders at the test, the Hayate Racing man has pinpointed what he thinks are the big factors slowing him down. He put 80% of the time differential down to a rear grip issue that has been a persistent thorn in the side of those riding the Ninja ZX-RR, a difficulty that he admits may not be resolved within the month.

他下一步要做的是就是解決在Qatar所遇到的問題。盡管他的時間距離最快車手有一段距離，但Hayate Racing工作人員說讓Melandri變慢的是他腦袋裡的雜事。他花80%的時間處理一直很惱人的後輪抓地力的問題，對於ZX-RR的後輪抓地力在未來幾個月內可能無法解決。

“We weren’t fast in Qatar; that’s a fact. The bike did make a good impression on me though. I don’t know how much it will be possible to improve it before the start of the season, but the team have assured me that they will be making a big effort until the end of March,” the former World Championship runner-up continued.

"我們在Qatar不是很快，這是個事實。車子並沒有給我很好的印象，我不知道在賽季開始前還可以有多大改進，但是出對保證他們會在三月結束前盡最大的努力"。前世界冠軍的隊友繼續說

Melandri has experienced two difficult seasons with Honda and Ducati, respectively, in 2007-2008. Vocal about any disappointments and brutally honest, much interest will focus on how he reacts to a bike with which he does not expect to be pushing for the podium, but for the moment he is not looking too far ahead.

Melandri 已經分別在Honda和Ducati經歷兩個艱困的賽季，相對於談論任何失望的事和殘忍的坦承，大家有更大的興趣在他會與這輛他不抱太大期望的賽車有怎樣的火花，但是在現階段他並沒有看的太遠。

“I’ve heard about not getting any factory support, but I believe in the work that has been done up to now. If the bike improves then I think that I can keep up. Obviously if I’m coming in last every Sunday then it will be hard to deal with, but I don’t want to think so far into the future.”

"我已經聽到不會有任何來自車廠的幫助，但是我相信到現在所下的苦工。如果車子有所改善，那我想我就更追近其他車手。明顯的如果我每個周末都墊底，表示將很難應付。但是我並不想去考慮這麼遠"。