Britain's James Toseland is having a frustrating time at the Dutch MotoGP round at Assen saying that a setup he found for free practice should have been used much earlier and that he is still using data from his more experienced team-mate Colin Edwards
“It is hard work at the moment to be honest. We wasted a lot of time and should have gone with the setting we had at the end much earlier. Basically I’ve gone closer to what Colin is running but we didn’t do it until too late and it was quite a frustrating session," he said.
"I got up to speed quite fast right at the end when we tried this new setting so it seems like we have found a good direction but we wasted too much time getting there. The bike is better on the brakes because I was losing so much rear grip on the entry of the corners that I had no corner speed with the other setting. The way this new setting transfers the weight is much smoother and doesn’t move weight off the rear as quick.
"With the new setting I got straight into the 37s and I feel I could have built on that but we’d been going round in circles for too long. I just spent too much time in the garage and when I need the track time to get the bike set-up on a track I’ve not tested on, I can’t afford to do that. I’m trying to learn the track on this bike so I need to be out there. Now we’ve got this setting I’m confident for tomorrow that we can move forward.”