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Brands BSB: Byrne hoping for more dry track time to work on bike settings

Be Wiser Ducati’s Shane Byrne was pleased that the MCE British Superbike free practice sessions today at the Brands Hatch Indy circuit were held in dry conditions, as he wanted more ‘dry time’ on his Panigale so his team can work on the bike settings.

Whatever they did to the Ducati today worked, as the local rider set the fastest lap during the free practice sessions this afternoon. A 45.430 meant that Byrne demoted Tyco BMW’s Michael Laverty off the top of the timesheets and with one minute to spare at the end of FP2 the Ducati rider set his quickest lap of the weekend so far.

Byrne put down his fastest lap with a new tyre and he is ‘pretty happy’ with his performance out on track today, but he wants to keep improving.

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“We arrived here at Brands Hatch, and like I have said before, we need more dry time on the Be Wiser Ducati to work on the setting. We started the session this morning with the bike exactly how we had left the dry setting at Oulton Park, not because that was the ideal scenario, but because that is all we know at the moment,” said Byrne.

“The great thing about this bike and team is that we start each round with a clean sheet of paper and just start chipping away and that does mean we don’t necessarily top the sessions or generate headlines. That said, this afternoon we worked in the same way and I think it was our 28th lap in the first session was our fastest and our 27th on a set of used tyres I was still improving my time in the second session.

“We put a new tyre in at the end like everyone else did and we were able to go quicker so I am pretty happy with the progress we made today, we just need to keep working hard and make sure we follow the right path to keep improving.”

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