ALSTARE MEN CHASE BRNO PODIUM
 Team
Alstare Suzuki Corona Extra riders Max Biaggi and Yukio Kagayama
go to the World Superbike ninth round at Brno in the Czech
Republic this weekend confident of improvement and chasing
podium places.
Kagayama scored a double victory at the track last year and
recent performances indicate that he is ready to fight for
the top honours again. He 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 Biaggi, 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 Biaggi:
"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 Kagayama:
"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 and that makes my job easier.
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). Max Biaggi
- DNS.
Race 2: 1 Yukio Kagayama (J-Alstare Suzuki
Corona Extra), 2 Fabrizio, 3 Haga (J-Yamaha). Max Biaggi -
DNS
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