As we reported yesterday morning, Valentino Rossi is testing a Brno this afternoon on James Toseland’s R1.
Fiat Yamaha team manager, Davide Brivio took this terrible photo and is reporting via Twitter and giving updates on how his rider is doing in his second fitness test.
– Vale is listening last instructions from SBK Team before to start riding.
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We’ll be soon on the track! – Valentino completed 1st run.
The shoulder seems better than Misano and it could be due to a different track, less stressful.
We continue- Just finish the 2nd run.
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18 laps so far.
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Quite fast already! Vale is talking about bike & not too much about leg and shoulder.
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Good sign!According to gpone.
com Rossi’s best lap on his first run was in 2′01″2, while on the second run his best lap was 2′00″6 with the same track temperatures as yesterday’s WSBK races.
More news when we get it.
Update:Rossi is doing a series of fast laps under the 2 minute mark (in slightly cooler temperatures).
His fastest lap so far is 1′59″7.
Biaggi’s best lap yesterday in race 2 at Brno was ‘1.
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763, always according to gpone.
com who has a reporter at Brno.
From Davide Brivio via Twitter:Vale finished a good testing in Brno with SBK.
46 laps/best lap time in 1.
59.
135.
Feels tired at the end but shoulder and leg coming better Before anyone goes crazy with this last lap time it was done on his penultimate lap and on qualifying tires.
According to Rossi he still has problems with his shoulder and leg after a few laps and would like to race at Sachsenring, but will decide only Wednesday, after he undergoes another x-ray tomorrow.