KONICA MINOLTA Honda struggled to find a perfect set-up to their Honda RC212V MotoGP machine in today’s practice session for Sunday’s Chinese Grand Prix. Shinya Nakano and his Team tried a number of different settings but couldn’t find a setting that suited him in the morning practice session. Reverting to a previous combination in the afternoon was an improvement, but then time was against them to improve further. Shinya and the Team are confident of an improvement during qualifying tomorrow for Sunday’s 22-lap race.
Gianluca Montiron – Team Manager KONICA MINOLTA Honda
“We started with two different settings on the bikes in a bid to find a solution for Shinya to have the performance from the machine that he needs and basically we spent both practice sessions trying to find a base set-up. Perhaps we made too many changes on both bikes, as Shinya needs clear feedback from the machine before he can push 100% so it’s important for us to have clear vision about the direction we take with the machine now. Tonight we will analyse the data with the support of HRC and decide which direction we will move in tomorrow. The weather forecast isn’t good tomorrow, but if it rains and we don’t get any dry track time it will be even harder to find our optimum dry set-up. We have to be positive and I trust in the skill and dedication of the Team, so whatever happens I’m confident we can improve our performance in final qualifying. ”
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