From a press release issued by Telefonica Movistar Honda:

THE RAIN SPOILS THE FIRST DAY OF TESTING IN VALENCIA

The riders of the Team Telefonica decided not to risk in rainy conditions

Valencia, 29th November 2004

After three days of hard work of testing at Jerez de la Frontera, the Team Telefonica MoviStar Honda MotoGP moved to Valencia on Saturday for the last test session scheduled for the 2004 season before the winter break in compliance with the regulations.

Heavy rain has spoiled the first day of testing: Sete Gibernau and Marco Melandri decided to postpone to tomorrow the program of work scheduled for today. Both riders in fact needed dry conditions to carry on the work started in Jerez.

SETE GIBERNAU
“Together with the team, we decided not to test today because on wet conditions I cannot evaluate the job I had to do, that is to say to look for the best package of what I have and to test some new particulars. Hopefully, tomorrow it is not raining because we have a hard program of work to carry on and this is the last testing session of the year. “

MARCO MELANDRI
“It was not worthy to risk in such bad weather conditions. After I made my debut on RC211V in Jerez I need to lap a lot in order to understand and to know the new bike. I didn’t want to risk on wet. I’m sorry because today we had scheduled different set-up tests. Tomorrow it should be cloudy but dry.”