Three days after the World Superbike round at Assen, four official teams, Aprilia, BMW, Ducati and Yamaha all headed to the Misano Adriatico race track for a two day test session (Wednesday and Thursday), before next week’s important Monza round.
The Aprilia team has Max Biaggi and Leon Camier and official test rider Alex Hofmann on track, testing engine upgrades a new swingarm and a new positioned gas tank to try to enhance mass centralization that Biaggi tried out on Friday and Saturday practice sessions at Assen.
Troy Corser was with his BMW team continued testing and development of the ECU unit of his S 1000 RR and a new clutch.
While Yamaha Sterilgarda’s James Toseland and Cal Crutchlow concentrated on set-ups and electronics.
Toseland did 69 laps while Crutchlow put in 87.
The Xerox Ducati team worked with Michel Fabrizio and Noriyuki Haga (who was running a temperature) on set-ups and both riders did around 60 laps yesterday, with Fabrizio putting in a best lap of 1′35″9 on soft tires, that was lower than Jackub Smrz’ last year’s pole position.
Unofficial Test Times (Wednesday):Fabrizio (Ducati) 1′35″9Toseland (Yamaha) 1′36″Crutchlow (Yamaha) 1′36″3Corser (BMW) 1′36″5Biaggi (Aprilia) 1′36″5Camier (Aprilia) 1′36″9I