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Brno. Czech
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World SupcrbikE
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Poge
6t
found that they could not
get
as
many o,
their
favored
air€E
as they wanted at Bmo.
Kngwing
exactly
which combination of
front
and
rears he needed, despite missing
the
receot Bmo tests with chickenpox, and
thus chasing setup compared to others all
weekend, Corser confirmed that he had to
use other tire6
for
some
periods of
the
weekend.
"We ere
dlowed a certain
amout of tires
on
the weekend, but
I ca,l
get a maximum of eigtn of the tires I realry
lyant. Vtb have enouth for two days. but
not enouth for all three days. lt's not so
bad for the odrer
guys
wlro have tested
here, as the, have a setup for suspension
and so on. so they can
iust
stick in their
best tires when they waot, on settings tlEy
know are olqy. We are stlll lookinS fo. our
setup
lhe
said on day one], so right now we
are trying to make a setup
-
on 6res we
know we are not
going
to use, To be fair to
Pirelli, it's unrealistic to expect them to
brin8 enough tires to
give
every single
rider
the same tires
for
everl ringle session, all
weekend. lt would
mean
bainSing another
four
truck
or
somedinS, so that'i
not
just
realistic.
So
l'm not saying we have to
chafl8e the situation, it's
ir.Et
the way it is."
frter ride6 mertiooed this rationint of
their favorite tires. but it seems obvious
that demand for these
particular
tires
wEs
iust
underestimated
-
or drere
was not
enouth
time to
nuke all
th€
tires r€quired,
for all $e riders, all
the
time. The special
sltuation at this tace seerns to be that
beaause thir wai dle venue of a reaent tire
test, and one
particular
tire
gor
the almost
universal seal of approval from almost
everyone, ride6 are not experirnenting,
testing o. even vaantinS to 6/aluate
rnost
other tires on a
race
wEekend
-
an unusual
sote of affairs. Thus. most riders kept their
"best"
tires for
qualifrint
and
use ofl race
d^,t.
Despite the race weekend
lap recordi
beinS trashed, on both race
and quajiryinS
rubber, it
was noticerble
that the best timec
set in recent
tire
tests at
Brno
(2i00 flat
from Bayliss on qualifiers, 2:00.80 on raae
rubber from Bay'iss again), were not b€aten
on like-(or-like rubb€r The reck, despite
hosting a Czech national round the week-
end before, was simple not ftned as fast
and as
gripp,,
by most of the riders from
the dsrelopment teams who were
present
at Bmo in
June,
on the same tires as they
used for regulation and Superpole
qualifying
at this
year's race. Nonetheless,
by com-
parison
with
last
year's
like-for-like records,
the
increase in
pace
was stark.
Haga did a
2.03.747
on race tires in last
year's
race,
and Corser
(on qlalifiers)
set the
previous
best
weekend
lap of 2:02.694. KaSafama! best pre-
Superpole 2005
qualilying
time, on
race
tires,
was 2:01-779, and Haga's best on
qudifiers
in
Superpole
this
yer
was 2:00.457.
lioy Corser entered
the
treat
traction-
