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HANNspree Ten Kate>> Ten Kate at home on new CBR

April 25 2009

Ten Kate Racing - Nieuwsbrief

Hannspree Ten Kate Honda riders, Kenan Sofuoglu and Andrew Pitt, finished inside the top ten in today’s opening free practice session for the fourth round 2009 World Supersport race at Assen in Holland on Sunday.

The session was topped by Spain’s Joan Lascorz as the Ten Kate duo continued their development of Honda’s latest evolution of the multiple championship-winning CBR600RR.

Sofuoglu and Pitt – seventh and ninth fastest respectively today – have a further free practice and a single timed qualifying session tomorrow afternoon to determine final grid positions for Sunday’s 22-lap race at the 4.55km Dutch circuit.

Kenan Sofuoglu – 7th, 1’42.428s
Again, it was not easy today having only one session to try to learn more about this new CBR. We tried a few different set-ups and finally got close to something that allowed us to take third place in Valencia. I am missing something in acceleration out of corners at the moment, but, if we can get the set-up better, this will not be too much of a problem.

Andrew Pitt – 9th, 1’42.655s
The bike is still running wide, like in Valencia, so we’re trying a few different things to get that sorted. The other problem we have is that, once again, there is really only one sensible tyre choice. The alternative is just too hard and not really an option, so we’re having to ride around on old tyres to avoid running through our allocation.

Ronald ten Kate – team manager
We’ve tested both bikes with different set-ups today, which has resulted in a lot of work in the single hour that the Supersport riders get now on a Friday. However, we have found the direction to go and out principal objective in tomorrow afternoon’s qualifying session will be to get both riders on the front row.

2009 World Supersport championship, round four – Assen, Holland
First free practice, results:
1. Joan Lascorz (ESP) Kawasaki 1’41.650s
2. Cal Crutchlow (GBR) Yamaha 1’41.869s
3. Michele Pirro (ITA) Yamaha 1’42.081s
4. Eugene Laverty (IRL) Honda 1’42.164s
7. Kenan Sofuoglu (TUR) Hannspree Ten Kate Honda 1’42.428s
9. Andrew Pitt (AUS) Hannspree Ten Kate Honda 1’42.655s

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