Hayden: I need more time

Nicky Hayden says he needs more time to get to grips with the Ducati GP11.1 and can start challenging for strong results at every race. The American was given one of the machines, which is based on the new 2012 bike, to race at last weekend's Indianapolis Grand Prix - six races after Valentino Rossi gave it a debut appearance. Despite suffering a disastrous race in front of his home crowd, where he was the only man to start on a softer compound front tyre ? and was forced to make a late pitstop to change it ? the 2006 world champion is confident that the bike is a big improvement on the GP11 he'd used previously.

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