MORE SATISFACTION FOR THE DUCATI XEROX TEAM AS BAYLISS SETS
NEW UNOFFICIAL BEST LAP IN MISANO TESTING!
Misano Adriatico (Italy), Thursday 13 April: Troy Bayliss
(Ducati Xerox) followed up his stunning performance at Valencia
two weeks ago with another dominant display in more than nine
hours of FGSport-organised World Superbike tests at Misano
Adriatico. The two days of action at the Santamonica circuit
have concluded the two tests that split the second and third
round of the championship.
The 37-year-old Australian took another half-a-second off
the time he set yesterday to leave the Santamonica circuit's
unofficial best Superbike lap at 1m33.317s. This is two-tenths
quicker than Troy's lap record from 2002, which was also the
last time the current championship points leader raced here.
"Everything went pretty good again today, the only problem
we had was someone spilt some oil on the track and that interfered
with my only long-run that I was in the middle of, but it
wasn't a big deal because the track's going to be a bit different
when we come back" declared Bayliss. "In the last
15 minutes I tried a qualifier and went a bit faster than
what I did this morning. I thought I could have dipped into
the 32s but it didn't quite happen. We left here in good spirits
and now we move on to Valencia, which we're quietly confident
about especially after the tests a couple of weeks ago".
In fourth position after yesterday's session, fourth again
at the end of two days; Bayliss's young team-mate Lorenzo
Lanzi made a major step forward towards the end of the test,
setting a best time of 1m33.933s, almost one second quicker
than yesterday.
"Today I managed to make a clear step forward, even
though in the afternoon with the race tyre I had a bit of
difficulty. We were unable to finish all the scheduled programme
because of the red flag that made us lose some time"
declared Lanzi. "We were going to make some big changes,
but we were unable to do so. I put on a qualifying tyre and
the feeling with the bike was excellent, but unfortunately
I made an error at the Quercia and almost crashed. However
I am happy with my time, even though I know we still have
to improve a lot".
World Superbike resumes its championship trail next week
in Valencia, Spain with round 3 of the series, while the Misano
round is scheduled for June 25th.
TIMES: 1. Bayliss (Ducati Xerox) 1m33.317s;
2. Corser (Suzuki) 1m33.824s; 3. Haga (Yamaha) 1m33.870s;
4. Lanzi (Ducati Xerox) 1m33.933s; 5. Walker (Kawasaki) 1m33.984s;
6. Laconi (Kawasaki) 1m34.085s; 7. Nieto (Kawasaki) 1m34.181s;
8. Kagayama (Suzuki) 1m34.266s; 9. Xaus (Ducati) 1m34.315s;
10. Pitt (Yamaha) 1m34.469s; etc.
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