TEAM KAWASAKI PSG-1 CORSE
World Superbike SBK 2008
Round 12: Vallelunga (Italy) 19-21 September
Friday – Qualifying 1st session
The first day of qualifying session has been disputed on wet track’s conditions but Regis Laconi of Kawasaki PSG-1 Corse team has not been refrained by the rain and obtained the 7th placement in the free practice session of the morning and the 9th in the qualifying session. Two good results considering the difficult period the team had to face in this last period.
Makoto Tamada faced this track for the first time and reached the 17th position in the free practice session. He is really satisfied of the ZX-10R’s performances and he’s sure to be able to reach better results with dry track’s conditions.
The young rider Ayrton Badovini made a great performance too conquering the 12th place in the free practices and the 18th in the qualifying session and demonstrating the competitiveness of a champion.
REGIS LACONI #55: “ I’m really glad about the job the whole team did to improve the ZX-10R performances. Now I can dare more even on wet track’ s conditions and I can start to focus on speediness. We worked on the suspensions to give more stability to the front of the bike and we obtained a good result.
Now we’ll focus on the rear to reduce the light movement I feel. I hope tomorrow it will be a sunny day ‘cause I want to improve the result achieved today”.
MAKOTO TAMADA #100: “ Together with Regis I feel a great improvement of the bike’s performances and the feeling achieved gave me the possibility to study in a proper way the track which I consider really interesting from a first approach.
I’m sorry for what happened in the qualifying session where the 2 crashes I did compromised my result.
Everyone say that it will be sunny tomorrow so I’m sure I’ll have the chance to improve the performances achieved today”.
Times: 1. N. Haga (Yamaha) 1’50.595; 2. R. Xaus (Ducati) 1’50.879; 3. T. Bayliss (Ducati) 1’51.146; 4. T. Corser (Yamaha) 1’51.228; 5. R. Kiyonari (Honda) 1’51.419; 9. R. Laconi (Kawasaki PSG-1 Corse) 1’52.463; 18. A. Badovini (Kawasaki Pedercini) 1’53.231; M. Tamada (Kawasaki PSG-1 Corse) RIT.
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