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POSITIVE FIRST DAY AT SILVERSTONE FOR AIRWAVES DUCATI |
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Friday, 26 September 2008 |
Airwaves Ducati riders Shane Byrne and Leon Camier made a promising
start to round 11 of the British Superbike Championship at Silverstone
today. Shane, who needs just a top 10 finish this Sunday to be crowned
2008 Champion, finished both of the day’s practice sessions 3rd.
Teammate Leon topped the timesheets in the morning and was 6th fastest
in the afternoon.
Fresh from his second British Superbike victory a fortnight ago, Leon
was immediately on the pace today. His best time of 1:26.927 came on
lap 18 of 24 and was the fastest in first practice.
“I’m pretty happy with how today has gone. The practice session this
morning really helped me to get into the flow of riding the Airwaves
Ducati around here and then this afternoon allowed us to try some
changes. Just before the second session was red flagged I had gone out
to try something new, but unfortunately that will now have to wait
until tomorrow. It’s looking really positive and we still have some
adjustments to try tomorrow.”
Shane completed a total of 50 laps over the two sessions and recorded
his best time of the day early on in second practice, matching Leon’s
fastest lap of 1:26.927 from this morning.
“You can normally make assumptions before a race weekend as to which
circuits the Airwaves Ducati will suit and which it won’t as much, but
to be honest we weren’t too sure about Silverstone. Fortunately the
Airwaves Ducati has worked really well straight away. I did a fairly
long run in the morning session and then in the afternoon we went
further than a full race distance with some good consistent times. I’ll
look over the data with my Airwaves Ducati engineer this evening to
identify ways in which we can make improvements for tomorrow and
hopefully kick up a gear and go even quicker.”
Qualifying for round 11 of the Bennetts British Superbike championship commences tomorrow, Saturday September 27th 2008 at 1400.
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