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Phillip Island Qualifying 2, February 26 2011, Sunny conditions for the second day of qualifying for the Pedercini Team Superbike riders at the Phillip Island circuit in Australia. During the morning qualifying, all three of the team’s riders improved on their best lap times, but unfortunately not quite enough to be able to enter the Superpole.
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February 26 2011 - Phillip Island Qualifying 2
Sunny conditions for the second day of qualifying for the Pedercini Team Superbike riders at the Phillip Island circuit in Australia. During the morning qualifying, all three of the team’s riders improved on their best lap times, but unfortunately not quite enough to be able to enter the Superpole. Staring reached eighteenth place (1’32”883) while Rolfo and Aitchison obtained respectively the twenty first (1’33”079) and the twenty second (1’33”413) position. The team is still working very hard, continuing development of the new Kawasaki Superbike, a long job that they were only able to start at the beginning of this week, during Monday and Tuesday’s testing sessions. The riders and team’s technical staff are satisfied with the improvements they achieved over the last two days. The bike’s performance is improving with each exit the riders make.
In the afternoon, during the final free practice session, the riders were able to work on settings for the tomorrow 22 laps races.
Phillip Island - Qualifying second session: 1) Checa (Ducati) - 2) Biaggi (Aprilia) - 3) Sykes (Kawasaki) - 4) Guintoli (Ducati)..........18) Staring (Kawasaki)..........21) Rolfo (Kawasaki) - 22) Aitchison (Kawasaki)
Free practice second session: 1) Checa (Ducati) - 2) Guintoli (Ducati) - 3) Biaggi (Aprilia) - 4) Haslam (BMW)..........18) Aitchison (Kawasaki) - 19) Rolfo (Kawasaki)..........22) Staring (Kawasaki)
Bryan Staring: “I’m very disappointed for the team and myself because I was not able to achieve the lap time I needed to enter Superpole. I knew it was attainable and I pushed very hard to improve my lap time, but three times I risked a crash and so preferred not to risk any more, especially in view of tomorrow’s double race. The team has been fantastic and we have been making strong progress over the weekend. We did a good job also in the afternoon free practice, improving my bike setting, and tomorrow I’ll try my best to take some good results for my team and my sponsor”.
Roberto Rolfo :”I’m definitely more satisfied today, compared with yesterday’s qualifying session. Today I was able to continuously improve my best lap time and the feeling I have with my bike is getting better. Today we made some important modifications to my bike’s set-up and now I know we are going in the right direction. Of course I’m not happy with today’s results but I’m sure that the Kawasaki has great potential and I’m more confident for tomorrow races”.
Mark Aitchison: “Our second day of qualifying and practice went well. During the session I have experimented with a few different settings and I found some more comfort with the bike. The weekend here in Phillip Island is really like a test for our team and with these changes we are gathering data for the future rounds. I think I know exactly which tyre combination I will use for the race, so after warm up we will evaluate the weather condition and close the set up. I look forward to my first Superbike races tomorrow, they’ll be tough, but I’m sure I’ll have fun”.
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