Yamaha ParkinGo riders Chaz Davies and Luca Scassa completed the second qualifying session in very hot conditions today in Brno, taking them to tomorrow?s race day where they will be sitting in seventh and 12th place on the starting gird.
Today was a less than perfect day for the Yamaha ParkinGO team on the historical Brno circuit. Chaz Davies continued to struggle from chatter issues which he also experienced in yesterday?s first qualifying. Extremely hot track conditions with temperatures reaching 51 degrees did not improve the situation. The unexpected heat of the asphalt rendered the tyre performance unpredictable and both Davies and Scassa suffered from a lack of grip and were unable to complete a long run. Luca Scassa spent the morning?s free practice session in search of a suitable chassis set up for his R6 machine. Despite the extreme conditions, the Italian was one of few riders to proceed to improve on yesterday?s times, in this afternoon?s second qualifying.
Chaz Davies
Yamaha ParkinGo Team - 7th, 2'04.610
"I expected to make a big improvement this afternoon. We put in with a softer tyre, but when I went around the first corner, I lost the rear so aside from the ongoing chatter, I don?t know if I also had a bad tyre or just extremely bad grip. I couldn?t seem to get a good lap in. Changes we made which we expected would improve performance, just didn?t. We need to look harder, find a solution and make improvements in tomorrow morning?s session. I?m not too concerned about the position as long I get a good feeling on the machine."
Luca Scassa
Yamaha ParkinGo Team - 12th, 2'04.996
"Today went ok overall. I wasn?t too far off the others, except maybe the first three. I had difficulty getting up to speed but I think we have made progress and can finally see the light. Tomorrow morning we can keep going in this direction and hopefully further improve. I got my best time in on a soft tyre but only after six or seven laps, so it wasn?t performing as expected. It won?t be easy, but we should be able to improve times in the warm up tomorrow and then I?m confident that I?ll be up there battling with the leaders. Not everyone improved times today, but we did and that?s a good sign."
2011 World Supersport Czech Republic
Brno 09/07/2011
Circuit Length:
5403
Weather:
Very Hot
Lap Record:
2'02.708
(Cal Crutchlow, 1/1/2009)
Fastest Lap Ever:
2'02.060
(Cal Crutchlow, 7/26/2009)
Qualifying 1 & Qualifying 2
I II
1 Fabien Foret Honda FRA 2'03.941 2'03.548
2 Broc Parkes Kawasaki AUS 2'03.611 2'04.014
3 David Salom Kawasaki ESP 2'04.013 2'03.681
4 Gino Rea Honda GBR 2'03.909 2'04.691
5 Massimo Roccoli Kawasaki ITA 2'04.279 2'04.093
6 Sam Lowes Honda GBR 2'04.123 2'04.856
7 Chaz Davies Yamaha GBR 2'05.151 2'04.610
8 Robbin Harms Honda DNK 2'04.639 2'04.772
9 Roberto Tamburini Yamaha ITA 2'05.047 2'04.839
10 Miguel Praia Honda POR 2'05.406 2'04.862
11 Florian Marino Honda FRA 2'05.358 2'04.959
12 Luca Scassa Yamaha ITA 2'05.079 2'04.996
13 James Ellison Honda GBR 2'05.560 2'05.135
14 Ondrej Jezek Honda CZE 2'05.151 2'05.738
15 Vittorio Iannuzzo Kawasaki ITA 2'05.567 2'05.447
25 Luca Marconi Yamaha ITA 2'07.767 2'06.814
Statistics: Posted by totalmotorcycle ? Sat Jul 09, 2011 4:45 pm
Source: http://www.zimbio.com/MotoGP/articles/8-1FBDP5fno/News+Difficult+Qualifying+Yamaha+ParkinGO
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