PROGRESS FOR TROY IN VALENCIA

Despite the very strong winds that attacked Valencia circuit today, Troy and his Yamaha Motor Italia team tested a variety of parts and settings and left the track in a positive frame of mind. Troy posted his best lap of 1:34.851 in this afternoon’s session, well inside Neil Hodgson’s 2003 lap record, but it was only good enough for the fifth quickest time. Leading the charge was Troy Bayliss (Ducati), with a lap of 1:34.102, with Spaniard Ruben Xaus (Ducati) second. Third fastest was Lorenzo Lanzi (Ducati), just ahead of Max Biaggi (Suzuki) in fourth place.

TROY - 5th, 1:34.851
Generally I think the tests were not too bad. I could feel the differences in everything we tried, whether it was links, forks, calipers or anything else. Some of the new settings were better, some were worse, but that’s what testing is all about - trying out things. The team have made some small changes to the throttle bodies and that has improved the mid-range, which means that the bike is a bit easier to ride.
I feel good on the bike - it stops and turns well, but it isn’t going fast enough yet. All it needs is a bit more power and I hope we can get that pretty soon - hopefully for Donington. I think all of us have had some tyre problems here and that has been a bit frustrating, because I’m sure I could’ve gone quicker. I’m pretty happy with a new front we tried here and would’ve liked to tried some more, but they didn’t have enough for me to make more tests.
The wind was very strong today and it seemed to keep changing direction and that caused a few problems. Going into turn one, I had the bike leant over, but then the wind picked it up and pushed me more upright. That meant I ran in too deep and had to take to the gravel! But I kept it upright OK, rode through the gravel and back on to the track, so no big drama. That was the only ‘moment’, otherwise all was OK and I’m happy that we managed to get through as much as we did and I’m looking forward to the fruits of all the work.

See ya,
Troy

Overall results Laps Best lap 1 Bayliss (Aus-Ducati) 165 1:34.102 2 Xaus (E-Ducati) 96 1:34.565 3 Lanzi (I-Ducati) 120 1:34.584 4 Biaggi (I-Suzuki) 144 1:34.708 5 TROY CORSER (Aus-Yamaha) 129 1:34.851 6 Haga (J-Yamaha) 92 1:35.029 7 Nieto (E-Kawasaki) 97 1:35.410 8 Muggeridge (Aus-Honda) 78 1:35.470 9 Neukirchner (D-Suzuki) 92 1:35.532 10 Laconi (F-Kawasaki) 124 1:35.639