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November 28th, 2018, 06:28 PM
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The trouble with post-season testing is that it takes place after the season is over. That is a problem, because the season runs well into November, so any testing after that is nearer to December than it is to October. And wherever you go inside of Europe to test, you will never get a full day's testing done, even with the best of weather.
So it came as no surprise that when the track opened at 9:30am on Wednesday morning for the first day of a two-day test, nothing happened. Or that nothing continued to happen for another couple of hours, as we waited for track temperatures to break the 20°C barrier, and make it warm enough to generate useful feedback. It is a perennial issue with no easy answers. Finding a warm, affordable track is tough this time of year.
The good news was that once the track had warmed up, we had ideal conditions for testing. Dry, sunny, warm if you were standing in the sun, though not quite so much if you were in the shade. Despite the fact that so much time was lost to the cold, the riders ended up with a lot of laps completed, and a lot of work done.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MotoGPMatters?d=yIl2AUoC8zA (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MotoGPMatters?a=5i9GoWkoXqc:oCTMt4giyCU:yIl2AUoC8zA) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MotoGPMatters?i=5i9GoWkoXqc:oCTMt4giyCU:F7zBnMyn0Lo (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MotoGPMatters?a=5i9GoWkoXqc:oCTMt4giyCU:F7zBnMyn0Lo) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MotoGPMatters?d=7Q72WNTAKBA (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MotoGPMatters?a=5i9GoWkoXqc:oCTMt4giyCU:7Q72WNTAKBA) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MotoGPMatters?i=5i9GoWkoXqc:oCTMt4giyCU:V_sGLiPBpWU (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MotoGPMatters?a=5i9GoWkoXqc:oCTMt4giyCU:V_sGLiPBpWU) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MotoGPMatters?d=8QFB7NnbhRw (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MotoGPMatters?a=5i9GoWkoXqc:oCTMt4giyCU:8QFB7NnbhRw) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MotoGPMatters?d=bcOpcFrp8Mo (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MotoGPMatters?a=5i9GoWkoXqc:oCTMt4giyCU:bcOpcFrp8Mo)
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The trouble with post-season testing is that it takes place after the season is over. That is a problem, because the season runs well into November, so any testing after that is nearer to December than it is to October. And wherever you go inside of Europe to test, you will never get a full day's testing done, even with the best of weather.
So it came as no surprise that when the track opened at 9:30am on Wednesday morning for the first day of a two-day test, nothing happened. Or that nothing continued to happen for another couple of hours, as we waited for track temperatures to break the 20°C barrier, and make it warm enough to generate useful feedback. It is a perennial issue with no easy answers. Finding a warm, affordable track is tough this time of year.
The good news was that once the track had warmed up, we had ideal conditions for testing. Dry, sunny, warm if you were standing in the sun, though not quite so much if you were in the shade. Despite the fact that so much time was lost to the cold, the riders ended up with a lot of laps completed, and a lot of work done.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MotoGPMatters?d=yIl2AUoC8zA (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MotoGPMatters?a=5i9GoWkoXqc:oCTMt4giyCU:yIl2AUoC8zA) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MotoGPMatters?i=5i9GoWkoXqc:oCTMt4giyCU:F7zBnMyn0Lo (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MotoGPMatters?a=5i9GoWkoXqc:oCTMt4giyCU:F7zBnMyn0Lo) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MotoGPMatters?d=7Q72WNTAKBA (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MotoGPMatters?a=5i9GoWkoXqc:oCTMt4giyCU:7Q72WNTAKBA) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MotoGPMatters?i=5i9GoWkoXqc:oCTMt4giyCU:V_sGLiPBpWU (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MotoGPMatters?a=5i9GoWkoXqc:oCTMt4giyCU:V_sGLiPBpWU) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MotoGPMatters?d=8QFB7NnbhRw (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MotoGPMatters?a=5i9GoWkoXqc:oCTMt4giyCU:8QFB7NnbhRw) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MotoGPMatters?d=bcOpcFrp8Mo (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MotoGPMatters?a=5i9GoWkoXqc:oCTMt4giyCU:bcOpcFrp8Mo)
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