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2007-06-28 Thursday times and claims from Assen
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 Casey Stoner dominated both free practice sessions at Assen today, promising tough battle to his title competitors on another track that they considered as not so Ducati friendly. Randy de Puniet surprised with second fastest time today, recovering from recent injuries. Nicky Hayden continued his comeback today, as he was constantly on the top of the timesheets through free practices. Valentino Rossi was also in good form in Assen, but still needs to find some extra speed in order to be able to compete to charging Stoner. Read rider claims after Thursday free MotoGP practice.
Casey Stoner - 1st - 1:37.828
I don't know why but we got a little bit confused with the settings and went backwards this morning, so I wasn't overly confident. The time we had on the track this afternoon was very positive, we managed to get everything sorted and towards the end of the session I was feeling quite confident with a different tyre we had chosen. It looks like we've found our race tyre already, it's the hardest compound we've got, we did the fastest lap on that tyre, so we know it's going to last the race, which is good. We're looking very good if the weather plays up again tomorrow. The settings we use here are pretty similar to what we used at Donington, not straight out of the box, but you don't need a totally different set-up here like you did with the old track. There's no big g-force areas anymore, they've pretty much destroyed an awesome racetrack. It's so disappointing, you keep thinking ?where's the old one gone', it's not the most fun to ride anymore. But we've still got a job to do here. Donington and here seem to have pretty similar surfaces now, there's not much grip here either, it seems dusty in places, so we're having to work in similar areas to what we were working on at Donington.
Randy De Puniet - 2nd - 1:38:040
I'm very happy. This afternoon, we made some improvements to the front and rear suspension, plus worked on our tyre choices for the race, and it all worked very well. The bike felt right, I managed good lap times and I'm in second behind the leader of the championship. I know he beat me, even though I was at the front for most of the practice session, but it was more important today for me to find a good set up and I have. It's really positive and I feel like we're moving in the right direction.
Nicky Hayden – 3rd - 1:38.114
I really like the Assen track and things went relatively smoothly today with no major dramas. The package we’ve got with the RC212V works pretty well here straight out of the box and we’re not too far away from getting a pretty good dry race set-up. Tyre choice is going to be really important of course and we tried to put in as many laps as we could in today’s two sessions because the weather looks really bad for tomorrow. We might catch a break on Saturday for the race though, and it might be dry. It’s been a decent start to the weekend and we’ll look at the data we gathered today and hopefully we can sweeten the machine up a little bit more. I enjoyed riding out there today so we’ve just got to keep the momentum going.
Valentino Rossi - 4th - 1:38:148
Today was not too bad! This morning was actually better than this afternoon, even though we were faster in the second session. Our initial base set-up this morning felt quite good but this afternoon we tested some different things and honestly I didn't have such a good feel. Our tyre choice seems to be okay and we have some softer tyres here which should work better in lower temperatures, as we should be able to get the heat into them faster. We've started out okay today but we need to improve some things so I really hope it's not going to rain tomorrow. I really like my new livery, it's fun and different and the colours especially are something you don't usually see on the racetrack! The Fiat 500 is a famous Italian icon so it's good to be able to celebrate the new version of the car in this way.
Dani Pedrosa – 5th - 1:38.221
We did a lot of work today on the machine set-up and tyre choice because the weather forecast says we might lose some dry practice time tomorrow. The RC212V feels quite good here and not really too different to the 990cc machine from last year – you notice the power is lower, but not too much, and the lap times are already pretty close. The practice sessions went reasonably well and I made a fair improvement from the morning to the afternoon. However, I made some mistakes in the afternoon session which lost me some time and so my final lap times were not as fast as they should have been really. We’ll continue to make adjustments to the machine tonight and come ready for whatever the weather gives us for tomorrow’s sessions.
Makoto Tamada - 6th - 1:38.256
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Colin Edwards - 7th - 1:38.341
I'm pretty happy with how we've started out here today. Michelin have brought some good stuff again and we've managed to get through all the things we needed to test for the weekend. At the moment it looks like we could actually race three of our tyre choices so that's a good situation to be in at this stage. Today we had my bikes set-up in two different ways and one was better than the other, so tomorrow we'll go with that for them both. It's actually pretty similar to last year's bike and that obviously worked good then so we'll keep going on like that. It was great to have two sessions uninterrupted by rain for once, fingers crossed we'll have more of the same tomorrow. The livery's pretty cool, it's fun to have something different and I've had some good comments from the rest of the riders. I'm not sure I could handle the pink every week but as a one-off special it's great!
John Hopkins - 8th - 1:38.436
I can honestly say we struggled a bit with set-up this morning - we were nowhere near where we wanted to be! This is one of the first tracks this year that we have showed up at and had to work really hard to get the bike how we want it. The crew has worked really hard to get us up to near where we have to be - we are still a bit behind, but we can make that up! We’ve got some stuff to try in the morning that I am sure will make things even better. We also worked hard with Bridgestone and went through our tyre allocation to find a compound that works well here. In the last run at the end of this afternoon’s session we found some big things that really moved us forward, it was almost like a night and day difference! I now can’t wait to get back out on track, it’s a shame we don’t have another hour today as I’m sure we could smooth some more things out and make a big step up!
Shinya Nakano - 9th - 1:38.444
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Alex Barros - 10th - 1:38.485
I’m satisfied for my first day spent in Assen. The bike has a good set-up and made us able to be really competitive. The feeling we have found here is better than in Donington and for this reason I’m particularly confident for Saturday’s race. Today we worked both on tires and bike set-up to individualize the most satisfactory solution; we have to do some more adjustment in order to be more fast on the T2 and T8, two turns that I’m not like so much and give me some difficulties loosing important time. Tomorrow I hope to have the possibility to make further improvement , but even if the weather will be not so good, I’m not worried because my race configuration and pace are already competitive.
Loris Capirossi - 11th - 1:38.600
We tested some tyres today but have yet to find what we really want. I tried the 16 but I was lacking rear grip into the corners, especially through the last part of the track. At the end of the afternoon session I tried the 16.5 again, it felt better and I did my best lap at the end, even though the bike settings weren't ideal for the tyre. Seven tenths isn't a small gap but we have a good margin for improvement with the set-up. In general, I feel okay and if tomorrow's weather is similar to today's, we should be make a few changes and go faster.
Sylvian Guintoli - 12th - 1:38.650
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Carlos Checa - 13th - 1:38.733
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Alex Hofmann - 14th - 1:38.846
Today we worked so hard and we have made tests as much as possible to try all material we thought important for the race. In general have been a positive day, especially in the morning when I recorded the fifth position. During the afternoon practice I had some little difficulties, maybe due to the wind that was particularly noising; unfortunately I make my time better only for few thousandth, but I’m not worried about that, I’ve a good feeling and my race pace is constant. We need only to do small adjustment to avoid to lose too much time in the chicane.
Chris Vermeulen - 15th - 1:39.152
We’ve had a few problems on the bike today, but the biggest has been the brakes. We’ve had a bit of inconsistency and I’ve had to work the lever really hard and that has given me a bit of arm pump. We have tried a lot of things and improved considerably this afternoon. I did get a bit of chassis vibration later on in the session, but we know what that is caused by and we’ll put it right tomorrow. We still have a lot to come from me and the bike around here and I know Tom and the crew will be working flat out to find the answers that we need!
Marco Melandri - 16th - 1:39.259
We’re having a tough time because I can’t find a good feeling with the bike and can’t ride it as I want. We’ve worked on the geometry today and tried a few different solutions in an attempt to improve my race pace but we’ve still got a lot of work to do. I’m really upset about Toni’s crash and hope that he gets better and returns to join us soon.
Toni Elias - 17th - (crashed, out of race):
I knew I’d broken my leg straight away. I tried to put it back in position even though the pain was tremendous. Hopefully I can recover quickly and be back on track soon. I also want to thank all the Clinica Mobile staff for their help and support.
Anthony West - 18th - 1:39.751
I was feeling good until I crashed; everything felt right and the changes we'd made this morning were working really well. It was strange because I was already in the corner, just ready to open the gas, but then I lost the front and went down. I don't know why: perhaps the tyre wasn't warm enough as I'd only done one lap on it. Maybe I need to warm them up a bit more on the left hand side. So yeah, obviously I'm not very happy but at least the set up we found was good.
Kurtis Roberts - 19th - 1:40.835
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