James Toseland wants an end to the ‘playground’ feud with team-mate Colin Edwards, which has literally divided the Monster Yamaha Tech 3 team in two heading into the 2009 MotoGP season.
The pair of double World Superbike champions enjoyed an excellent relationship last year, but Edwards hasn’t spoken to the Englishman since it was announced that his crew chief Garry Reynders was switching to Toseland’s side of the garage for 2009.
Any hopes that Edwards might soften his stance were extinguished at last weekend’s Jerez test, when it was revealed that the Tech 3 pits will be divided by a wall this season, as already happens (for competitive reasons) at Fiat Yamaha.
“It didn’t have to happen like this and I can imagine why he feels the way he does,” Toseland told. “We just need to sit in a room and talk about the situation, but he’s got a wall in the garage like he wanted.”
Toseland confirmed that ‘communication problems’ were the main reason for requesting a change of crew chief.
“I’ve got a slating off a lot of people and I’ve taken it all on the chin. It’s playground stuff now and it didn’t need to get to this,” he added.
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