Crutchlow and Toseland complete their first day of testing on the Yamaha R1

Mrs James Toseland · by Mrs James Toseland on Wed Oct 28, 2009 8:21 am

2010 Yamaha World Superbike riders James Toseland and Cal Crutchlow wasted no time today, getting straight down to business with their first ride on the championship winning R1. Both riders were working with their new teams for the first time, but gelled quickly and had got down to under the race pace of Sunday’s championship final before the end of the first sessions.
Today’s session was the first step in adapting the bikes to their new riders, both Toseland and Crutchlow will start again tomorrow morning to make further changes and close in on the perfect set up for their 2010 race season. Despite a high speed high side in the morning session, Cal Crutchlow showed no signs of slowing down and continued to make significant time improvements over the afternoon’s practice time. New team mate and fellow British rider James Toseland also showed solid improvement over the day, despite being new to the bike and track he quickly got down to business and continued to shave time off his laps over the course of the sessions.
Having achieved an incredible victory on Sunday and lifted the World Superbike title for the first time, the Yamaha team were straight to business today, working hard to develop championship winning riders for the next season.

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Cal Crutchlow, Yamaha World Superbike Team (1'42.7)
“it was a good enough day apart from a stupid crash this morning after about 30 laps, there seemed to be something wrong with my rear tyre which caused me to high side. I hit my head and have had a few headaches today but ok apart from that. The testing has gone well, we’ve done quite reasonable times, all credit to the guys who’ve worked really hard. We haven’t changed much on the bike today, just tried to make it my bike a bit, tomorrow we’ll do some more and see how we go.”

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James Toseland, Yamaha World Superbike Team(1'43.7)
“I’m feeling really positive, it’s obviously my first time on the bike, it felt a bit alien after two years on a GP bike but the balance of the bike felt good and I’m really impressed with how the team’s working, I’ve got an old friend of mine as a chief engineer. I’ve been really impressed to work with him today and Silvano Galbusera (Yamaha World Superbike Team Technical Co-ordinator) looking over him with his experience has been great. What’s been nice is the changes we’ve been making have always been in a positive direction, so to say we’ve got down to more or less race pace on a brand new track and a brand new bike is good, I’m pretty pleased with it.”
Massimo Meregalli, Yamaha World Superbike Team
“Cal’s first day went pretty well, it was easier for him compared to James as he already knew the track, but it was still a really good first test session for him. For James everything was new today, the bike, the track, tyres, many things! I think tomorrow he will make another step. For the first day we are very satisfied with both riders.”

Mrs Fizz To52land · by Mrs Fizz To52land on Wed Oct 28, 2009 1:45 pm

I am so happy that Cal and James are doing great for the first day James in particular since he's never seen the track before. Yeah I am really happy for the pair of them.

Mrs James Toseland · by Mrs James Toseland on Wed Oct 28, 2009 5:37 pm

yeah me too its a good day for them both cant wait till next year

here is some more information from crash.net

Unofficial lap times from the first day of post-season World Superbike and Supersport testing at Portimao in Portugal.

Testing concludes on Wednesday.

Not all riders had transponders fitted...

Superbike:

1. Jonathan Rea (Honda) 1min 42.156sec
2. Michel Fabrizio (Ducati) 1min 42.362sec
3. Cal Crutchlow (Yamaha) 1min 42.795sec
4. Noriyuki Haga (Ducati) 1min 43.098sec
5. Leon Haslam (Suzuki) 1min 43.300sec
6. Max Biaggi (Aprilia) 1min 43.400sec
7. James Toseland (Yamaha) 1min 43.700sec
8. Max Neukirchner (Honda) 1min 43.810sec
9. Leon Camier (Aprilia) 1min 43.900sec
10. Joan Lascorz (Kawasaki) 1min 43.902sec
11. Carlos Checa (Ducati) 1min 43.951sec
12. Javier Fores (Ducati) 1min 44.413sec
13. Tom Sykes (Kawasaki) 1min 45.500sec
14. Regis Laconi (Ducati) 1min 46.458sec

Supersport:

1. Kenan Sofuoglu (Honda) 1min 44.580sec
2. Broc Parkes (Kawasaki) 1min 45.000sec
3. Michele Pirro (Honda) 1min 45.323sec
4. Katsuaki Fujiwara (Kawasaki) 1min 45.875sec
5. David Salom (Kawasaki) 1min 46.200sec

Not declared:

Alex Hofmann (Aprilia test rider)
Hidemichi Takahashi (Kawasaki WSB test rider)
Vittorio Iannuzzo (Honda)
Luca Scassa (Honda)
Sylvain Guintoli (Suzuki)
Martin Cardenas (Yamaha)
Anthony West (Yamaha)

Crutchlow and Toseland complete their first day of testing on the Yamaha R1

Crutchlow and Toseland complete their first day of testing on the Yamaha R1

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