| News | Jerez, Spain 04/05/2010 | | Rossi and Lorenzo second and third after busy day's testing | | | The Fiat Yamaha Team made the most of a rare day's testing at Jerez, one of the few post-race tests they will have this season. Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo had a busy and successful day, finishing second and third respectively in the standings behind Dani Pedrosa.
Rossi, who finished third in the race on Sunday, worked with his crew to improve the M1 race setting, trying to understand the problems that had hampered them during the weekend. It was a largely successful day as his fastest time was an improvement on his best time from the weekend. He also tried a new engine evolution, which it is hoped will improve acceleration, reporting a small improvement. The Italian had one upset during the day when he had a low-speed crash at turn two, luckily causing no further damage to his recovering shoulder.
After his incredible home win, Lorenzo had to delay the celebrations one day more in order to get back on board yesterday. The main aim for his side of the garage was to try to improve his starts and his early race performance, and the Spaniard did over 20 practice starts during the day. He too had some new parts to try, including a chassis development, electronics and the modified engine. Lorenzo, who turns 23 today, finished the day in third, just behind his team-mate. |
| Valentino Rossi - Position: 2nd Time: 1'39.480 Laps: 61
"We improved our race setting a bit and found better stability and grip, so we arrived at the right place finally, even if we were too late for the race! We tried a new front tyre for Bridgestone, which was good and also a slightly different engine from Japan, trying to improve the acceleration. The difference was small but important, although we don't know yet when we will be able to use it in a race. My lap times were fast and apart from the small crash, when I just put a bit too much lean on and lost the front, it was a good day. I was only doing 65 km/h so luckily it wasn't a problem. Now we have a long rest and I want to fully recover so I'm back to full strength in Le Mans."
Jorge Lorenzo - Position: 3rd Time: 1'39.506 Laps: 71
"It was an interesting day. Most of all we worked on our starts; I think I did something like 25 starts! I do find it quite difficult because the clutch and acceleration aren't always the best parts of our package, but today was good to understand how we can improve. We also tried some new electronics, including traction control, and chassis parts, as well as trying a slightly different engine. The difference wasn't big but I did notice it, so I think this is the right way. Today is my birthday and I am looking forward to finally celebrating my win!"
Davide Brivio - Team Manager
"This was a very positive test because we tried many things and got some good information. The first important thing was to try to improve the setting of the weekend and understand where we went wrong, and this was more or less successful. Then we tried some different electronic maps and a new front Bridgestone which was very promising. Finally we tested a slightly different engine; a developed model that we may not see soon but our feedback will be very valuable for Yamaha in their future work. An important day's work."
Wilco Zeelenberg - Team Manager
"Today was very interesting, especially because we don't have many tests this year. We worked largely on trying to understand why Jorge is so much faster later in the race and also we worked on starts, because we need to improve them too. We found out some interesting information, which will help us to understand how to have the same speed throughout the race. We need to go to another track now to get a better idea of the situation but hopefully the work we've done will be very useful."
Test Times
1. Dani Pedrosa (SPA) Repsol Honda Team 1'39.425
2. Valentino Rossi (ITA) Fiat Yamaha Team 1'39.480
3. Jorge Lorenzo (SPA) Fiat Yamaha Team 1'39.506
4. Randy de Puniet (FRA) LCR Honda MotoGP 1'39.609
5. Andrea Dovizioso (ITA) Repsol Honda Team 1'39.760
6. Casey Stoner (AUS) Ducati Marlboro Team 1'39.786
7. Nicky Hayden (USA) Ducati Marlboro Team 1'39.906
8. Ben Spies (USA) Monster Yamaha Tech 3 1'39.958
9. Loris Capirossi (ITA) Rizla Suzuki MotoGP 1'40.040
10. Colin Edwards (USA) Monster Yamaha Tech 3 1'40.042
11. Marco Melandri (ITA) San Carlo Honda Gresini 1'40.129
12. Marco Simoncelli (ITA) San Carlo Honda Gresini 1'40.370
13. Mika Kallio (FIN) Pramac Green Team 1'40.446
14. Alvaro Bautista (SPA) Rizla Suzuki MotoGP 1'40.463
15. Hiroshi Aoyama (JAP) Interwetten-Honda MotoGP 1'40.470
16. Aleix Espargaro (SPA) Pramac Green Team 1'40.686
17. Hector Barbera (SPA) Aspar Team 1'40.932
Jerez: Record Lap
V. Rossi (Yamaha) 2009, 1'39.818
Jerez: Best Lap J. Lorenzo (Yamaha) 2008, 1'38.189
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