KAWASAKI PSG-1 CORSE: LACONI NINTH, TAMADA THIRTEENTH
Today, Sunday 1st June, at Miller Motorsports Park track
in Salt Lake City, it has been a quite intense day for the
Kawasaki PSG-1 Corse team. Regis Laconi crashed in race 1
but it didn’ t compromise the team’s morale which
succeeded in restoring the ideal regulations on the fallen
bike and gave to the French rider the possibility to end race
2 among the first ten riders.
Makoto Tamada finished race 1 in 19th position but he raised
the situation in race 2 where he placed 13th.
Ayrton Badovini of Kawasaki Pedercini team can return home
from the USA full of satisfactions and with 4 more points
in the championship.
REGIS LACONI # 55: “ I made a good
start in race 1 but the long straight resulted in me being
unable to maintain the conquered position. After the first
lap I recovered the 7th placement gained at the start and
I began to push as much as I could until the 5th lap where,
at the first bend the bike started to slip a lot until it
unhorsed me. It has been a bad crash which caused me a sprain
and lots of bruises on my back. It was really painful but,
I felt I could finish the race once I was on the bike. After
a good start I maintained a good race pace and considering
my physical conditions I’m really satisfied of my 9th
placement and happy that I fought until the end with Nieto
and Kiyonari”.
MAKOTO TAMADA #100: “ In race 1 we
still hadn’t an ideal regulation to avoid the chattering
and I’ve been unable to achieve a good position. In
race 2, after we adopted some new regulations decided between
race 1 and 2, I conquered the 12th position even after the
bad start I made.
We have to work a lot to obtain a positive result in next
round in Germany.
I want to thank my technicians, they have been perfect and
worked day and night to adapt all the variations decided in
these last days”.
FRANCESCO MASTRADREA (Technical Director):
“ In race 1 Makoto accused chattering both on front
and rear tyre so the team started immediately to prepare the
bike for race 2. The mechanics modified the frame geometry
of the bike giving to the rider the possibility to find the
right feeling with his bike.
Unfortunately Regis badly crashed compromising race 1. In
race 2 even if he wasn’t at the top of his physical
conditions he ended the race with a good result maintaining
a great race pace”.
Race 1: 1. C. Checa (Honda) 37'04.991; 2.
T. Corser (Yamaha) a 2.809; 3. M. Fabrizio (Ducati) a 6.546;
4. M. Neukirchner (Suzuki) a 7.764; 5. F. Nieto (Suzuki) a
16.475; 17. A. Badovini (Kawasaki Pedercini) a 36.155; 19.
M. Tamada (Kawasaki PSG-1 Corse) a 43.579; Regis Laconi (Kawasaki
PSG-1 Corse) RIT.
Race 2: 1. C. Checa (Honda) 38'44.105; 2.
M. Neukirchner (Suzuki) a 3.547; 3. M. Fabrizio (Ducati) a
6.613; 4. M. Biaggi (Ducati) a 8 7.878; 5. Y. Kagayama (Suzuki)
a 10.568; 9. R. Laconi (Kawasaki PSG-1 Corse) a 21.264; 12.
A. Badovini (Kawasaki Pedercini) a 31.711; 13. M. Tamada (Kawasaki
PSG-1 Corse) a 35.628.
In Championship: 1. T. Bayliss (Ducati)
194; 2. C. Checa (Honda) 116; 3. N. Haga (Yamaha) 112; 4.
M. Neukirchner (Suzuki) 111; 5. F. Nieto (Suzuki) 107; 16.
M. Tamada (Kawasaki PSG-1 Corse) 28; 18. R. Laconi (Kawasaki
PSG-1 Corse) 21; 22. A. Badovini (Kawasaki Pedercini) 10.
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