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july 20, 2016 - Suzuki Racing

Suzuki Ecstar starts Red Bull Ring Motogp™ test

Team #suzuki Press Office – July 19.

Team #suzuki ECSTAR’s Maverick Viñales and Aleix Espargaró had their first taste of the Red Bull Ring in #austria for two-days of testing today ahead of round 10 of the 2016 MotoGP™ World Championship next month.

Both riders and the team’s focus today was to learn the new circuit and prepare a good base set-up; and initial impressions were positive. Tomorrow, both will work on focussing on more-detailed set-ups on their GSX-RRs for the race that takes place on August 14th.

Maverick Viñales:

“The circuit is really nice, the speed is very high and having the walls so close, you can really notice it. Beside this, the track is peculiar; it is a stop-and-go layout where the acceleration will be very important, and because of this, it may not be the most suitable for our machine, but the set-up will also play a role. It will be the first time here for everybody, therefore it will also be a game between teams to see who will be the most effective with the set-up and adaptation. It’s good we are making this test; at least we can set a base and work on it during the ‘Summer Break’ - otherwise it would have been very hard to arrive here without any knowledge.”

Aleix Espargaró:

“I liked the track, the layout is very tight and with a lot of hard-braking and fast acceleration. It won’t be easy for us but we have already made some steps forward. This morning I felt very confident and throughout the day we consistently-increased our knowledge with new data. Here we are not trying any major improvements on the machine; we are only trying the track and preparing for the race.”

RED BULL RING TEST – Day1 Results:

1. Andrea DOVIZIOSO – 1’23.764
2. Andrea IANNONE – 1’24.347
3. Scott REDDING – 1’24.461
4. Casey STONER – 1’24.502
5. Maverick VIÑALES – Team #suzukiecstar - 1’24.595
6. Hector BARBERA – 1’24.649
7. Eugene LAVERTY – 1’24.751
8. Danilo PETRUCCI – 1’24.992
9. Valentino ROSSI – 1’25.054
10. Aleix ESPARGARÓ – Team #suzukiecstar - 1’25.099
11. Yonni HERNANDEZ – 1’25.171
12. Jorge LORENZO – 1’25.175
13. Jack MILLER – 1’25.345
14. Cal CRUTCHLOW – 1’25.438
15. Loris BAZ – 1’25.994
16. Mika KALLIO – 1’26.056
17. Tito RABAT – 1’26.195
18. Tom LUTHI – 1’26.405

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