Round 7: Nürburgring (Germany) 13-15 June Saturday
– Superpole
LACONI MAINTAINS THE RESULT, MAKOTO IMPROVES HIS
PERFORMANCE
The French rider of Kawasaki PSG-1 Corse team, Regis Laconi
was a victim of a bad crash during this morning’s qualifying
session at Nürburgring track finishing 10th. He suffered
a broken finger from the crash but this didn’t prevent
him from participating on his ZX-10R in Superpole where he
made the 13th time.
The Japanese rider Makoto Tamada suffered badly form grip
problems during the morning qualifying session which excluded
him from Superpole finishing 21st. The problem he believes
has been partly solved by his team and he concluded the afternoons
free practice session in 16th place. After today’s difficulties,
Makoto is quite confident in his chances for tomorrow’s
races as he is sure of finishing well.
REGIS LACONI #55: “This morning’s
crash has been not so traumatic for my physical being but
more my mental think as I still don’t understood what
happened and it has been quite difficult to find the feeling
again. We also found a problem with the clutch during this
afternoon’s free practice session which we solved and
the bike is much better now. I think the weather will be decisive
tomorrow as today it has been a real mixture and tyre choice
will be difficult, decisions l take tomorrow morning during
the warm up.
MAKOTO TAMADA #100: “ I cannot be
happy with this morning result, we still are working to find
an ideal set up on this particular track. We partly solved
the problem before the free practice session this afternoon
by changing certain aspects and I reached a good feeling with
the bike that has resulted in me being able to find a good
race pace and maintain it. I’m quite optimist for tomorrow’s
races, I know it will be difficult to finish well starting
from the 21st place but we have made improvements and we can
close the gap. Tomorrow morning we will use the warm up session
to focus on the tyre choice which is quite important considering
the strange weather conditions”.
Times: 1. M. Neukirchner (Suzuki) 1’55.471;
2. T. Bayliss (Ducati) 1’55.791; 3. C. Checa (Honda)
1’55.888; 4. N. Haga (Yamaha) 1’56.401; 5. M.
Fabrizio (Ducati) 1’56.436; 13. R. Laconi (Kawasaki
PSG-1 Corse) 1’57.301; 21. M. Tamada (Kawasaki PSG-1
Corse) 1’58.568; 22. A. Badovini (Kawasaki Pedercini)
1’58.654.
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