Tricky weekend for Tamada
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Monday, 06 March 2006 |
After struggling with cornering on his Honda RCV all weekend, the final day of testing was fairly unsuccessful for Makoto Tamada, as the varying weather conditions made working on development difficult. In the main session of the weekend Tamada came 12th, although he did opt to conclude his session early in order to focus on testing in the afternoon.
 Makoto Tamada, Konica Minolta Honda: 2.02,197
"Today's test day has been nearly unhelpful. I could only test the bike on wet conditions for the fist time this year. The impression is the same I had already had with a dry race bike setting, therefore, even in this conditions the last part of the corner approach, is still the phase to be improved.. I am not able yet to ride as I would like to, because I have to force the bike too much to make it lean. In Jerez, we hope to find better weather conditions in order to have all the necessary time to close this development phase of new Honda RC211V basic setting." Giulio Bernardelle - Konica Minolta Honda Technical Director"There have not been the right conditions to work profitably, neither with dry ground nor with wet ground. The rain, which started falling around midday has never been constant therefore the grip conditions on the ground were continuously changing. For this, after the qualifying session, we decided to interrupt the test in advance because the work we have to do in this moment would not lead to any useful information if done in these conditions."
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