Fuente : Yamaha Racing
http://www.yamaha-racing.com/

YAMAHA: S.Stock:Australians chase set-up at Brands Hatch

/noticias.info/ Kevin Curtain and Broc Parkes, Yamaha Motor Germany’s Australian duo, set the fifth and ninth fastest times in today's first practice for Sunday’s round eight of the Supersport World Championship at Brands Hatch.

Despite heavy showers throughout the day the track remained dry, albeit with several damp patches off line, for the duration of the 45 minute session. With the morning practice session run in wet conditions, the supersport riders found themselves without any meaning set-up data for the afternoon qualifying session, meaning both men spent as much time trying to find a good machine set-up as they did setting fast lap times.



Championship leader Sebastien Charpentier (Honda) was the fastest rider with a 1:29.174 lap time, but behind him things were close with just eight tenths of a second separating second placed Gianluca Nannelli (Ducati) from Parkes in ninth.

Curtain spent most of the session looking for a good race set-up on his YZF-R6, posting a best time of 1:30.424 – good enough for fifth place and second row on the provisional grid. The 39-year-old was happy with his day’s work, confident his squad can make significant improvements ahead of tomorrow’s final session.

Parkes, fastest in the morning’s wet practice, also had to contend with set-up problems as a result of no previous dry running. The 23-year-old found the gearing on his YZF-R6 was not set-up correctly, causing his machine to rev out down the straights. Despite this, Parkes ended the session ninth with a best lap time of 1:30.838.

Final grid positions will be determined by the best time over today and tomorrow’s sessions. Final qualifying takes place tomorrow (Saturday) afternoon.

Kevin Curtain
“With the rain this morning we’re a session behind, so we spent qualifying trying lots of things with the gearing and the set-up. The track was still a little damp around the Dingle Dell area but we still made some progress, although there are still a lot of corners where we’re neither here nor there with the set-up. The guys are looking at all the data now and I’m sure they’ll come up with a bunch of improvements for tomorrow.”

Broc Parkes
“I was hitting the rev-limiter everywhere and although we really needed to change the gearing we didn’t have enough time, as it would have meant changing both the front and rear sprocket. The gap between me and second is not much and we know that we can improve quite a lot by changing the gearing. So, if it stays dry tomorrow, we should be alright.”
notas_de_prensa_archivo