The Yamaha Motoxracing WorldSBK Team has completed two constructive days of testing at the Circuit de Barcellona-Catalunya in Spain.
Having competed in the opening WorldSBK round at Phillip Island three weeks ago, Sandro Carusi, his technical staff and rider Bradley Ray made the most of this test session, working on the setting of their Yamaha YZF R1 in light of the data collected in Australia.
On Thursday the British rider completed 80 laps, the best of which in1’43”278, before making another 57 laps on Friday and improving significantly on his time to set a best of 1’42”413.
Beyond the lap times, the test has served to prepare the bike ahead of the second WorldSBK round that will take place at the same Catalan track over the weekend of 22-24 March.
“We’ve finished the test a little perplexed to be honest as we’d hoped to be quicker. Unfortunately, there’s a significant gap to the front and we’ll have to work hard over the race weekend to reduce this gap, but I trust in the team and rider”.
“Two intense and important days in which we’ve worked really hard on our bike. We found a good setup today and, more importantly, understood the direction in which we need to work over the race weekend. We need to close the gap that separates us from the quickest riders, but this test has allowed me to build confidence with my bike at this track and so I’m optimistic ahead of round 2 here at Barcelona.”
