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Stiggy Racing Honda>>Tough Kyalami Practice for Supersport Team

May 15 2009

World Superbike Championship
Stiggy Racing Honda

Round 6, Kyalami
Friday, May 15th
Superbike QP1

The beautiful Kyalami track, located on the outskirts of South-Africa's largest city Johannesburg, proved a hard track to tackle for the Stiggy Racing Honda Supersport Team in the opening Free Practice sessions today.

A slighlty altered time schedule in force at Kyalami today, allowed the Supersport riders to get to grips with the track in two 45-minute long sessions, and prepare their machines for tomorrow's official Qualifying Practice.
 West is eager to find form again and launch his attack at the South African podium this weekend to hold on to his fifth place in the championship. The Australian faced a tough two rounds in Assen and Monza, but is expected to make his much anticipated return to the top of the sheets in Kyalami this weekend.

In the first free practice session West set his fastest time at 1'45.988s, and took a disappointing 19th place in the sheets. In the afternoon's second practice West improved his time by a mere 1.6 seconds to 1'44.290s, but still found himself languishing at an unsatisfying 19th place.

Team mate Gianluca Vizziello, found himself in the middle of the field in 16th place, after he set his best time in he improved his best time to 1'43.837s.

Gianluca Vizziello, 1'43.837s:
" I am satisfied with my opening sessions here today, we have been able to locate the problem area's and can now work on a solution. I am convinced we can improve a couple of positions in tomorrow's qualifying. We have tried some different gearing in the sessions, and I'm happy with the improvement it made. Tomorrow I will work towards a better position on the grid for the race on Sunday.

Anthony West, 1'44.290s:
" I had a tough session here today. I do not know why we struggle to set the same pace as the guys in front. I know I am capable of running consistently fast lap times, but we just could not put it together today. I hope I will have a better session tomorrow. It's a technical track here and I want to qualify on the first rows to be able to ride a good race here on Sunday ".

Johan Stigefelt, Teammanager:
" We have been struggling for answers here today. It is a new track for our team, but we should be able to close the gap, and not be too far behind the competition. At the moment we are running off the pace set by the fast guys. The team has analysed the gathered data, and will work on a solution to improve the pace tonight. Hopefully the results will pay off in tomorrow's sessions ".

Results FP2:
1. Sofuoglu 1'41.566s
2. Laverty 1'41.812s
3. Crutchlow 1'41.969s
16. Vizziello 1'43.837s
19. West 1'44.290s

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