Phillip Island test, day 2

Bit slow updating this i know but anyway but late than never ha ha!!! Day 2 then, well, i'm both happy and unhappy with the overall results, you see in the morning we worked with one type of tyre size as the track was much cooler due to both overnight rain which actually cut our 1st session down from 2 and a half hours to just an hour plus the weather was much cooler in the morning. It would appear there's going to be a couple of possibilities tyre wise and each will depend heavily on the track temperature, we boxed off the cooler temperature tyre in the first session and had a really really good run going about half a second faster than everyone until right at the very end of the session when Michel Fabrizio pipped me by less than a 10th of a second, the two of us remaining well clear of the rest of the field, things had really gone to plan so i was really looking forward to trying the bigger tyre in the afternoon. All things being equal the afternoon session should've been equally as good however as we are fitting new engines for the actual races the bike i had been using was up to mileage so we had to ride the spare bike, this in itself shouldn't be a problem however we had a problem with the bike that meant i probably completed about 15 laps at the most, probably not even that, it's a bit of a shame really as we still had plenty of work to do and a number of things to test with the different tyre but the guys identified the problem after the session and it was fairly terminal, fortunately we have new engines for the upcoming weekend like i said and at the race weekend everyone will be in the same boat tyre wise so we'll keep our fingers crossed, continue working hard from friday until sunday evening and hope that we come away with two strong finishes, i'm very happy generally with the way all three of our tests have gone and can't wait now to start racing....Shakey #67

An action shot from the test, more to follow soon!!!!