2007 Superbike World Championship
Preview: Round 9, Brno, CZ - 22 July
TEAM ALSTARE POSITIVE ABOUT BRNO
Team Alstare Suzuki Corona Extra riders Max Biaggi and Yukio
Kagayama go to Brno this coming weekend confident of improvement
and chasing podium places. Yukio scored a superb double victory
at the track last year and recent performances indicate that
he is ready to fight for the top honours again. Yukio and
the team have worked hard all season to improve the new K7
and now he is much happier about the bike and can look forward
to pushing harder for the rest of the season.
For Max, this year’s Brno race will be another story.
Although he has never raced a Superbike at the 5.403 kilometre
track before, he has a lot of experience of it from his days
in GP and MotoGP. He has also tested his Alstare Suzuki there
recently, so this will not be another weekend with another
new track to learn.
Max
Brno is a circuit I know from before and it is a track I like.
It is a good track for riders and fans and I hope I can make
some good results there. I tested at Brno not so long ago
and I know that there are many things we have to do with the
bike to get it right for this track - as usual. I always like
to get a good set-up and feeling before I push hard and that’s
what we’ll start working on the first day of practice.
Yukio
If I can repeat my results from last year, I will be a very
happy man! Last year was my first ever double in World Superbikes
and it was a very special feeling. The start of my season
this year has not been so good, but recently my team and I
have found a good setting and now I feel much more comfortable
riding the bike and I can push much harder. Now I understand
the limit of the bike (before I did not) and that makes my
job more easy. I wish we had found this set-up earlier, but
that is how racing goes sometimes. Now it is up to me and
the team to improve this feeling and challenge for podium
places in every race.
2006 results
Race 1: 1 Yukio Kagayama (J-Alstare Suzuki Corona Extra),
2 Toseland (GB-Honda), 3 Fabrizio (I-Honda)
Race 2: 1 Yukio Kagayama (J-Alstare Suzuki Corona Extra),
2 Fabrizio, 3 Haga (J-Yamaha)
Max Biaggi - DNS
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