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West unhappy after crash

West was running well at Assen and was increasingly happy with his bike's set up until an unfortunate lowside at the second gear, 140 km/h Ruskenhoek corner. Hugely disappointed after the crash, the young Australian, for whom Assen is only his second outing on a four-stroke MotoGP machine, made it back to the pits to continue on his second bike.

Nonetheless, he and his mechanics had not wasted time, having succeeded in making good progress, finding a healthy set up for the ZX-RR. Furthermore, the day's riding meant plenty more valuable practice for Anthony, who won at Assen on a 250cc in the 2003 world championship.

West commented on his crash: "I was feeling good until I crashed; everything felt right and the changes we'd made this morning were working really well. It was strange because I was already in the corner, just ready to open the gas, but then I lost the front and went down. I don't know why: perhaps the tyre wasn't warm enough as I'd only done one lap on it. Maybe I need to warm them up a bit more on the left hand side. So yeah, obviously I'm not very happy but at least the set up we found was good."

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