Marlboro Ducati's Valentino Rossi will continue with the development work started with the GP11.1 at Mugello which saw his team take a different setup direction to normal in an experiment to see if it will work at this weekend's German MotoGP at the Sachsenring.

Rossi played with the bike balance and altered the Desmosedici's ride height by 20mm in an attempt to get more heat into the front Bridgestone while keeping the rear stability he has found since they put the 800 motor in next year's chassis.

"At Mugello we started working with the setup in a direction that we had never tried before. We used it Sunday in the warm-up, so we weren’t able to spend much time on it. The bike worked better in the race than it had in practice, but we still need to do more experiments with these settings, so at the Sachsenring we’ll see if they might be a good starting point," said Rossi.

"The track is tricky in some spots, but it’s a circuit that I like. Last year I returned to racing in Germany after the injury to my leg, and it was a nice race. We hope the weather and temperature will be good because we need to work on the setup as much as possible before the race.”