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Yamaha happy with test progress
10 June 2008 / ResultsAfter claiming an important 20 points in Sunday's Grand Prix of Catalunya, Valentino Rossi and his crew were back at work on Monday for a half day test at the Montmelo circuit. Rossi shared the track with the large majority of the MotoGP grid, although his team-mate Jorge Lorenzo was still absent as he continues his recovery from Friday's crash.
Having experienced some set-up problems during the weekend, the team concentrated largely on working through those issues during the test and improving their package with Donington in mind. As usual there were also plenty of tyres to test with Bridgestone and Rossi set his best lap of 1'41.857 on a qualifying tyre, a time considerably better than his time from Saturday's official qualifying session. The Italian completed 61 laps and set the second fastest time of the day, behind Casey Stoner.
Team boss Davide Brivio commented, "Once again we've had a very positive day's testing, and it's been good to have the time to work through some of the problems we had at the weekend in order to completely understand what happened. We mainly worked on setting and tyres and, together with Bridgestone, we got some good information that we are sure will help us over the next two races. With qualifying tyres we were able to improve our time from Saturday, so this is also a good outcome. Finally we also worked on our starts, in order to try to improve the beginning of the race for us. We are satisfied with the day's work and now we're looking forward to the next races."
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