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Assen qualifying: first day, April 23 2010, A clear sky allowed dry tests today in Assen for both Superbike and Superstock 1000 session.
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April 23 2010 - Assen qualifying: first day
A clear sky allowed dry tests today in Assen for both Superbike and Superstock 1000 session. During morning free practice team Pedercini riders worked a lot on their bikes set up. In Superbike Roger Lee Hayden (1’41”195) finished in twentieth place while Matteo Baiocco (1’41”375) was twenty first. In afternoon qualifying session Baiocco recorded a time of 1’38”795. He improved his best lap time with more than 2 seconds and claimed a provisional nineteenth position. Also teammate Roger Lee Hayden is improving his performance. He ended his afternoon’s session with a best lap of 1'39”186 obtaining the twenty first place.
Superbike qualifying 1 : 1) Smrz (Ducati) – 2) Rea (Honda) - 3) Corser (BMW) – 4) Haslam (Suzuki) – 5) Crutchlow (Yamaha) ..…19) Baiocco (Kawasaki)……21) Hayden (Kawasaki)
Roger Lee Hayden : “Everything went pretty good today. It was my first time in Assen and I like the track. It’s really fast and flowing. This morning we had some problem to the front of my Kawasaki but this afternoon we made it better and I was able to improve my lap time. I’m pretty happy considering that this was only the first day of test and hopefully tomorrow I’ll improve my position entering the Superpole”.
Matteo Baiocco : “This morning we found a lot of problems on the electronics and we spent quite the full session trying to solve them. This afternoon qualifying went better and I found very soon a good feeling with my Kawasaki. We still have some problems to solve but I’m confident for tomorrow and I want to work hard with my team, because we have to get a better set-up to be able to enter the Superpole”.
In Superstock 1000 FIM Cup free practice, Petrucci (1’42”658) reached the tenth position while Leeson (1’44”687) obtained the nineteenth place. Both riders improved their best lap time during the first qualifying session. Danilo Petrucci (1’40”790) was seventh, reaching the provisional second row on the starting grid. Also teammate Leeson (1’42”993) improved his best lap time but he remained in nineteenth position.
Superstock 1000 qualifying 1 : 1) Berger (Honda) – 2) Badovini (BMW) - 3) Magnoni (Honda) - 4) Barrier (BMW) – 5) Bussolotti (Honda) – 6) Giugliano (Suzuki) – 7) Petrucci (Kawasaki) …… 19) Leeson (Kawasaki)
Chris Lesson : “I’m pretty satisfied with my today practices. I was able to take advantage of the changes my team made on my Kawasaki. The morning free session was quite good while in the qualifying I was able to improve my best lap time with more than one second. My bike is working well but tomorrow I will test some new setting, trying to improve my today’s performances”.
Danilo Petrucci : “I am pretty happy for what we have done today. With my team we worked intensively to find the best possible setting. I would say that we have done a good job and we solved a lot of the problems we had in Valencia. I’m satisfied with my best lap and with my seventh place. My result today is thanks to a really big effort from the team who have worked so hard to make the bike comfortable for me. time and tomorrow we will need to concentrate at the maximum in order to improve the race pace and to obtain a good position on the grid”.
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