Motocross Bridgestone Jerez Irta Test - Ubukata Debrief
14 08 2008Admin wrote:
The penultimate pre-season test came to a conclusion at the Circuito de Jerez in southern Spain on Monday afternoon after three days of intermittent track activity courtesy of unusually turbulent Spanish weather.
Rain and wind prevented teams, riders and tyre manufacturers from conducting uninterrupted running over the entire three days, including a damp official practice on Sunday in which Ducati’s Casey Stoner was fastest. A dry final day offered some meaningful running with more useful information collated by Bridgestone’s engineers.
A flurry of late qualifying runs shuffled the timesheets on the final afternoon of practice with Valentino Rossi ending the session as the fastest rider on Bridgestone tyres with a time of 1m39.568s. Several other Bridgestone riders were present in the top ten over the course of the test with some solid performances on race tyres. However, the final timesheets show that Bridgestone’s qualifying performance still needs to be further improved ahead of the season start in Qatar in three weeks’ time.
Q+A with Tohru Ubukata - Bridgestone Motorsport - Manager Motorcycle Race Tyre Development
What has Bridgestone managed to achieve over these three days with the mixed weather conditions?
"It was a difficult test for everybody with tricky track conditions over all three days. After the dry first day,…
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