The Ducati Team have celebrated three victories and a podium in the past at Motegi were the smooth surface is more suited to the modified set-ups of their GP10 machines.
‰ÛÏMotegi is a circuit with a lot of stop and go sections, not much of it flows together and it's not one of my favourite layouts," Stoner said.
"On the positive side the surface is smooth, with not too many bumps, which have really made us suffer at a lot of tracks this year. You need a bike that is stable under braking and efficient under acceleration so I am hopeful that the setting we found at Aragon can be useful here again. In Spain we finally managed to improve the stability and found a bit more grip and if we can do that again this weekend we will have the chance to fight for a good result again.‰Û
