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Stoner shows strong performance in the wet
01 June 2007 / Results / PhotosCasey Stoner has showed he would be completely ready for a wet race this Sunday at the Mugello circuit in Italy. The world championship leader set the fastest time in the wet practice session this afternoon.
Conditions this morning were cool and dry but thunder, lightning and torrential rain hit Mugello at lunchtime, flooding parts of the track, riders experiencing aquaplaning where the circuit was at its wettest. Stoner rode a few exploratory laps when heavy rain was still falling, then returned to the pits to wait until near the end of the hour when the rain had eased off.
"The wet is no real drama for me," said Stoner. "At Le Mans we didn't really have the perfect setting, we definitely gained experience from that, so we changed the wet setting a bit and definitely made improvements, so I feel a lot more comfortable now. I came in after three or four laps this afternoon because it kept raining and getting wetter, so I said that's enough for now, it was getting too much. You can go around but it's not safe and you're not learning anything, so I thought it better to come in and wait for the right time to go out again.
"This morning we weren't too bad in the dry - race pace was pretty good straight away. For sure we can improve the bike. We need to improve traction a little bit, which we did this morning, and we need to improve the turning a bit because I don't have the same sensitivity I've had at other tracks. We pretty much know what settings we need to change to make it turn a bit harder and we should be all right, so it's looking good wet or dry."
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