Repsol Honda Pair Conclude Valencia Test
2004 Repsol Honda teammates Nicky Hayden and Alex Barros finished their scheduled two-day test at Valencia this afternoon (Sunday) pleased with their work and the way the teams testing schedule is developing.
In bright sunshine today they worked at the 4.005km Ricardo Tormo circuit putting more km’s on their factory Honda RC211V’s in readiness for the start of the 16-round 2004 MotoGP world championship that starts at Welkom in South Africa in exactly six weeks time.
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Nicky Hayden in action last year at
Jerez, Spain.Photo: Honda Racing |
Hayden and Barros will shortly fly back to America and Brazil respectively before returning to Spain (Barcelona) for the official launch of the Repsol Honda Team on March 25th and the IRTA tests the following weekend.
Nicky Hayden
“A good couple of days. I’ve gone faster here than I ever have before which is good. The teams working real well and I’m looking forward to the IRTA tests at the end of the month when the season will really start to build. In Barcelona they’ll be all the teams, great atmosphere, a little bit of hype. We then have one more test at Jerez then the fun starts with the first race. I’m really excited.”
Saturday best lap 1m33.7 70 laps
Sunday best lap 1m33.3 91 laps
Alex Barros
“Today we tested a lot of different solutions on the bike for this circuit and am very happy with the results over the weekend. I can now make consistently fast laps and I don’t seem to be too bothered by the shoulder with seems to be coming better with every test we do. We are still not at 100% but I’m pleased we are on the schedule we set ourselves when we started testing this year. That is to take it steady with the bike and the shoulder in order to be at 100% for the first GP in South Africa. I’m travelling back to Brazil shortly and will return to Spain for the IRTA tests at the end of the month.”
Saturday best lap 1m33.5 81 laps
Sunday best lap 1m33.65 85 laps
Written by: Honda Racing
Valencia, Spain – 3/7/2004
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