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Bridgestone confident heading to Jerez
27 March 2008A thrilling battle for supremacy at the opening race of the 2008 MotoGP season in Qatar just over two weeks' ago, ultimately won by Bridgestone-shod Ducati rider Casey Stoner, set a highly competitive standard for this year's championship, which continues this weekend with the second round of the season, the Spanish Grand Prix and Bridgestone in confident mood.
"Tyres are an important part of the package at Jerez because it is a circuit with a wide range of corner types and there is no dominant straight, so the riders require good cornering performance," said Hiroshi Yamada of Bridgestone. "This means we need to provide high grip front and rear tyres. We expect track temperatures to be between 30 and 40 degrees Celsius, so we will run soft to medium level of compounds."
"Everybody knows Jerez very well from testing so there is a lot of data at our disposal," he added. "We have seen in previous years that the level of competition at Jerez is very high and it is often just tenths-of-a-second that can make a big difference to the result. The circuit is not always in exactly the same condition as when we tested, and this year there is a full month between the pre-season IRTA test and the race, so track conditions will likely have changed. Teams will have a good idea of the set-up they require for their bikes, so the first practice will be used to confirm or make slight adjustments before we start the usual process of tyre evaluation for the weekend."
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