CAMEL YAMAHA TEST – TURKEY, ISTANBUL
ENCOURAGING DAY’S WORK FOR CAMEL YAMAHA TEAM
IN ISTANBUL
Following yesterday’s Turkish Grand Prix, the
Camel Yamaha Team stayed on to test in Istanbul today, making
the most of a dry day after a rain-interrupted weekend as
they searched for improvements to the 2006-spec YZR-M1.
Valentino Rossi and Colin Edwards, who finished fourth and
ninth respectively in yesterday’s MotoGP race, had continued
to experience problems throughout the weekend and were unable
to find a perfect race set-up. Today’s test was
therefore aimed at finding a better base setting and gathering
yet more data in order to provide the Yamaha engineers with
more information to work with ahead of the next race in China.
It was a fruitful day’s work and the Team was
able to make up for the time lost to the rain on Saturday,
with both riders finding a marked improvement to their settings
and posting some good lap times. Edwards completed 60
laps with a best time of 1’53.31, whilst Rossi’s
fastest time of the day was 1’53.61 after 72 laps.
The MotoGP paddock will reconvene in just over a week’s
time for the fourth race of the season in Shanghai, China,
where Valentino Rossi took victory in the rain last year.
DAVIDE BRIVIO – CAMEL YAMAHA TEAM DIRECTOR
“Once again we decided to take the chance to stay on
and test after the race, as we saw this weekend that we still
have work to do. Today was a very important test for
us as we continued from what we did during the weekend and
tried a few more ideas in order to try to improve, and hopefully
to fix, the problems that we’ve been having this season.
We made some good progress with both riders and found a better
setting for the bike and this was reflected in the lap times,
which were better than those that Colin and Valentino set
on Friday, when it was dry. Our work this weekend was
interrupted by the rain on Saturday and we weren’t able
to find a good setting in time for the race, but today we
achieved that so hopefully that will help us in China.
All this information will help the Yamaha engineers in their
work over the next week, and now we look forward to a better
situation for both our riders in China.”
Unofficial lap times:
Casey Stoner: 1’52.42 (55 laps)
Nicky Hayden: 1’52.90 (86 laps)
Marco Melandri: 1’53.0 (81 laps)
Makoto Tamada: 1'53.22 (82 laps)
COLIN EDWARDS: 1’53.31 (60 Laps)
VALENTINO ROSSI: 1’53.61 (72 Laps)
Kenny Roberts: 1’53.6 (75 laps)
Dani Pedrosa: 1’56.36 (48 laps)
Toni Elias: did not test
Istanbul Lap Record: Toni Elias (Honda)
2006 – 1m52.877s – 170.309 km/h Istanbul Best
Pole: Sete Gibernau (Honda) 2005 – 1m52.334s - 171.132
km/h
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