Test riders turned on Delaware Puniet and Nobuatsu Aoki were once more joined on-track by former World Champion Kevin Schwantz and shared the take a look at with the Yoshimura Suzuki AMA Superbike team as track temperatures climbed to thirty-nine degrees; slightly beyond the previous day, however not as high because the previous weekend’s MotoGP second spherical.
De Puniet completed a complete of sixty two laps of the five,315m circuit with a best lap-time of 2’05.85; just-over half-a-second faster than his previous day’s best time.
Said Delaware Puniet: “I’m happy that we've got found a giant improvement on throttle association and traction management. we tend to worked a while to seek out the correct setting with the new physics conjointly and at the top we tend to found an honest compromise. we tend to continuing to figure on the chosen chassis and it worked very well nowadays. therefore the package is unquestionably higher and that i wished to own an additional day to be able to continue the work as yesterday we tend to spent most of the time setting-up the bike for the new circuit along side the new physics. Also, I even have not been riding a motorcycle for a number of weeks and that i required to induce back the sensation.
“Anyway, nowadays on the race tyre, we tend to improved plenty from yesterday’s lap times and located an honest pace. sadly I wasn’t able to attempt some sort-of time-attack by the top of the day as we tend to had alittle downside on the bike and that we lost the last 30 minutes on the track. however I feel we tend to had the potential to even additional improve our performance.
“Now we’ll attend Argentina - that could be a utterly new circuit - however I’m glad we'll go there presently and hopefully i'll be still hot from this take a look at.”
Satoru Terada, Project Leader and Team Suzuki MotoGP Team Director, said: “We brought a brand new engine-spec and new chassis-spec here and located an honest combination. we tend to conjointly worked on combining an honest electronic setting to the present new engine-spec and that we area unit pleased with the results. we tend to conjointly confirmed nowadays our chassis alternative.
“Our performance in terms of lap-times might are higher by the top of the day, however the necessary purpose is that we tend to leave state capital with smart info regarding our bike and regarding this circuit. we tend to conjointly had a time to relish Kevin Schwantz riding our latest MotoGP bike and conjointly sharing the circuit with Yoshimura Team, supported by Suzuki Motor of America. currently we glance forward to Argentina wherever we'll take a look at once more on weekday and Wednesday once the MotoGP race.”
