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Stoner happy with current pace
20 April 2007 / Results / PhotosDucati Marlboro Team men Casey Stoner and Loris Capirossi made a brilliant start to the Turkish Grand Prix today, ending the first day of practice fastest and second fastest. Their pace proves the strengths of the Desmosedici GP7 and shows that Bridgestone has made huge strides forward since last year's race at Istanbul Park.
For Stoner it has been a good start of the Turkish Grand Prix weekend. The Australian hopes to clinch another victory in the third round of the 2007 MotoGP World Championship. Speaking about the first day he said: "That was really good, the last run was my first time on new tyres since I first went out this morning. We tried a different rear, so we've only used two rears from our selection and we've got another couple to try tomorrow. It would be nice if we can find an even better one. Everything seems pretty comfortable, pretty good at the moment. We haven't changed the settings too much from Jerez, so obviously the team did the right things for this circuit.
"For sure we need to improve the bike before we get to the race but track conditions are going to change a lot, so we don't know how our current settings will work by the time the race comes around. As always, we're trying to make the bike as perfect as possible, we need it to turn a bit better, with a little more traction and a little less pumping. Once we've got those things we should have quite a good package. I've had some pretty good results in the past here so it would be nice if we can continue that. It's not my favourite track, it's very technical and it's difficult for set-up but we seem to be doing the right job at the moment."
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