Repsol Honda's Casey Stoner has admitted he is struggling to find a setup direction for tomorrow's Sepang MotoGP encounter as everything he changes makes the RC213V's performance worse.
Stoner was dogged by niggling issues at the start of qualifying today, yo-yoing in and out of the pits before he managed to put in a couple of meaningful runs but ended in fourth place, half a second off the pace.
“It’s been a really disappointing weekend, but especially today. We’ve had pace all weekend and the first session looked promising, but we’ve had problems with the brakes and some other small issues. Every step we take to try and improve the bike, we make it worse and it’s becoming very frustrating," said the reigning world champion.
"Our potential is much higher than where we are currently at and now we go into the race without any real direction. Physically I’m not sure how I am going to be as we haven’t been able to complete many laps this weekend, our pace is there and I just hope that we can make some small improvements in tomorrow’s warm up.”
