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Stoner confident with bike setup
29 May 2009 / Results / PhotosCasey Stoner has every confidence in his Ducati team as the Italian squad reverts to its aluminium swingarm at Mugello this weekend. Finishing third in Friday's practice was a boost for the team although, being over two tenths down on fastest man Jorge Lorenzo means there is still work to do.
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"The idea behind going back to the aluminium swingarm is just in order to see where we can improve more with the carbon version," 2007 World Champion Stoner explained. "The carbon swingarm is better in a lot of ways but there is one area we're struggling to find grip with in the turns; so we're using the aluminium one to find out where it is better, and why, and then hopefully transfer that across."
Despite being slower than the Yamaha bikes so far in Italy, the Australian is confident that success can still be achieved, despite the downgrade. "I don't mind riding with one of each because we can do similar lap times so it's not a problem," he explained. "The only way it affected us today was that we had to make a lot of short runs and do a lot of testing but we're happy with the way things went.
"Today was a case of spending a time learning more about our bike rather than setting it up to race, which we'll focus on tomorrow; considering how close we are to the top, I think we can be quite confident."
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