Pata Yamaha trials new engine and chassis parts
The factory Yamaha World Superbike squad has run fresh engine and chassis parts at the two-day private Lausitzring test as it looks to attack the final stint of the ꦓyear back in full force.
Pata Yamaha returned to action as a full accompaniment for the first time since May w🦄ith Sylvain Guintoli making his maiden💝 comeback since breaking his ankle at Imola. While becoming familiar with the Lausitzring circuit both Guintoli and team-mate Alex Lowes, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:fresh from his Suzuka 8 Hour triumph, complet♛ed full testing programmes notching up over 130 laps each.
Lowes got to grips with new engine and chassis hardware from Yamaha's R&D base in Germany, running a full race simulation for data and feedback to be analysed. While feeling his way back to form, Guintoli worked on geometry settings to familiarise the developments mad🌠e by the team with the new R1 during his spell out injured.
"The tes♑t at Lausitzring has been good and we've had a productive couple of days here," Lowes said. "My feeling with the YZF-R1 has continued to improve and we've developed the package and learnt some new additions, which is positive.
"The track is interesting and it's always nice to try new ven⛎ues. The layout is challenging with lots of changes of direction and quite bumpy so compaℱred to other tracks a slightly different set up is necessary.
"Overall I'm happy with the progress and am looking forward to the final day of testing at Magny-Cours b♕efore the season starts again back here in mid-September."
Guintoli has remarked on how different the Yamaha feels in full r💜ace trim since his last outing in May. Pata Yamaha will be eager these changes can provide key gains after a difficult return to World Superbikes for the Japanese manufacturer with the team failing to crack the p🗹odium so far this season.
"The YZF-R1 has changed since I was last racing on it, chassis-wise the set-up is also different so the🐻 past two days hav🙈e allowed me to develop a better understanding of the dynamics in place at the moment," Guintoli said. "We have worked on a few tweaks in performance but the main task has been understanding how the bike behaves now and getting back up to speed."