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World Superbike
WSBK: Magny-Cours QP Ticker
Team notes and quotes following provisional World Superbike qualifying in France.
Althea Racing Ducati's Carlos Checa (Photo: Althea Racing)
PROGRAMMING NOTE: The Superbike World Championship season finale from Magny-Cours, France will air on SPEED on Sunday, October 7th at 4:00pm and 6:00pm ET.
The Althea Racing team made the most of today’s dry conditions during the first day of action at the French circuit of Nevers Magny-Cours; riders Carlos Checa and Davide Giugliano closed first qualifying in second and fourth place respectively.
First practice took place late this morning on a dry track (air temperature 20˚C, track 25˚C). Both Althea riders improved during the session, making some changes to the set-up of their 1198 machines together with their technicians. Giugliano closed this first session with a best time of 1m39.6, which positioned him fifth, half a second from the fastest rider. Checa concentrated on working to find the best setting, closing the practice with the ninth quickest time (1m40.0).
In this afternoon’s qualifying, and in slightly warmer conditions, most riders’ times dropped with respect to the morning’s session. Both Carlos and Davide were almost immediately up among the frontrunners, and remained there for the duration of the session. Having made some useful changes prior to this session, Carlos was able to benefit from better stability and grip, recording a best time of 1m38.6 which put him in second position at the session’s end. Giugliano lowered his best time set this morning by seven tenths, to close in fourth position (1m38.9).
Carlos Checa:
“We made some changes between this morning’s session and the qualifying and things went a lot better for us this afternoon. We tried the tires that we have available and have an idea of the direction to take for the races. I have seen that it’s hard to stick with the 4-cylinders on the straight which would normally be a good place to overtake so we’ll have to find other points where we can get close enough to try. The stability and grip were better this afternoon and so I’m more confident. We need to manage the tire situation as best we can, this is one of our strong points, and see what we can do.”
Davide Giugliano:
“We are feeling pretty optimistic. If we can continue to work this way then we should be able to make two great races on Sunday. There’s still work to do but I really want to send my bike into retirement with the best possible results this weekend. It would be nice to be able to fight for the positions that count, like we were doing earlier in the season but unfortunately this is no easy thing now. Anyway, I always give 100% so I plan to do even more than that this weekend in the hope that we’ll be able to do well.”
The Althea Racing team made the most of today’s dry conditions during the first day of action at the French circuit of Nevers Magny-Cours; riders Carlos Checa and Davide Giugliano closed first qualifying in second and fourth place respectively.
First practice took place late this morning on a dry track (air temperature 20˚C, track 25˚C). Both Althea riders improved during the session, making some changes to the set-up of their 1198 machines together with their technicians. Giugliano closed this first session with a best time of 1m39.6, which positioned him fifth, half a second from the fastest rider. Checa concentrated on working to find the best setting, closing the practice with the ninth quickest time (1m40.0).
In this afternoon’s qualifying, and in slightly warmer conditions, most riders’ times dropped with respect to the morning’s session. Both Carlos and Davide were almost immediately up among the frontrunners, and remained there for the duration of the session. Having made some useful changes prior to this session, Carlos was able to benefit from better stability and grip, recording a best time of 1m38.6 which put him in second position at the session’s end. Giugliano lowered his best time set this morning by seven tenths, to close in fourth position (1m38.9).
Carlos Checa:
“We made some changes between this morning’s session and the qualifying and things went a lot better for us this afternoon. We tried the tires that we have available and have an idea of the direction to take for the races. I have seen that it’s hard to stick with the 4-cylinders on the straight which would normally be a good place to overtake so we’ll have to find other points where we can get close enough to try. The stability and grip were better this afternoon and so I’m more confident. We need to manage the tire situation as best we can, this is one of our strong points, and see what we can do.”
Davide Giugliano:
“We are feeling pretty optimistic. If we can continue to work this way then we should be able to make two great races on Sunday. There’s still work to do but I really want to send my bike into retirement with the best possible results this weekend. It would be nice to be able to fight for the positions that count, like we were doing earlier in the season but unfortunately this is no easy thing now. Anyway, I always give 100% so I plan to do even more than that this weekend in the hope that we’ll be able to do well.”
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