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26 June 2010
Misano Practice - Day 2
Misano Adriatico, June 26th 2010 - Some recriminations for the Althea Racing team after today’s Superpole. The availability of some experimental tyres prevented the team and Carlos Checa from being able to concentrate on recording fast times. As usual, however, the team’s satisfaction lies in the race pace found during the qualifying and free practice sessions which bodes well for tomorrow’s races.
Carlos Checa registered the fifth fastest time which places him on the second row, eight tenths behind Troy Corser, after having concluded Superpole 2 in second place. “It went quite well”, said the Spanish rider. “Starting from the front row would have been better of course but the second row isn’t too bad. I tried a soft tyre in Superpole 3 but it slid around a lot and I was unable to improve. I could only have fought for the second position anyway because Troy was unbeatable today. We’ve made some great times with the race tyres and hope to be up at the front tomorrow.”
Shane Byrne will start from the fourth row, having qualified in fifteenth position.
Genesio Bevilacqua, General Manager of Althea Racing declared: "We can blame the continual search for perfection that made us work so hard. The choice of tyre for Superpole 1, made during the free practice, perhaps caused us to lose focus with regard to recording the fastest times. We hoped for the front row but it was impossible to catch Corser. We’re confident for the races, having a strong race pace, and Carlos hasn’t lost the will to fight back. As far as Shane is concerned we are regretful after practice sessions in which he was one of the main players, but he unfortunately doesn’t have a great feeling with the qualifiers. Tomorrow, even though he’ll start from further back, I hope to see him in the top ten.”
Sunday morning’s warm-up takes place at 9.20 while race 1 commences at 12.00 and Race 2 at 15.30, both races are 24 laps in length, equal to 101,424km.
The official Superbike lap record at Misano was set by Noriyuki Haga (Ducati) in 2009 in 1m37.135 at an average of 156.620 km/h, while Jakub Smrz set a 1m35.435 (average 159.410 km/h) in practice in 2009.
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