#i LOOOOOOOOVE how the curse gradually seeped into the paddock consciousness as a key bit of folklore

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However, he crashed again, as he had recently done in Muguello (Italy). Sete returned depressed to the garage, where the long faces of his team awaited him for the new failure, took a private plane and returned to Barcelona without appearing before the media to give any explanation. On the nearest horizon is Germany, where next weekend the tenth race of the seventeen scheduled in MotoGP will be held. After the setback at Donington, the Catalan has no other choice but to look for incentives to end this path that is leading him to the abyss. After his last victory, in Qatar, Sete seems to be touched by a curse, which many voices in the paddock have dared to point out is driven by the Italian Valentino Rossi. After that race at the new Losail circuit in 2004, the Catalan has hardly raised his head. Gibernau, Rossi's main rival last season, has become a mere sidekick this season, lost in fifth place in the standings, 116 points behind the leader. Sete's desperation is such that at the start of training in Donington, he launched a harsh attack on his team for the low level of performance he was getting from his bike. The next day he revised his words, qualified them and insinuated that not only had he been misinterpreted, but that some expressions had been distorted. In Germany, he will try for the umpteenth time to get away from the abyss into which he seems to be about to fall.

26/7/2005