Alitalia Aprilia's Leon Camier has likened riding in today's World Superbike Superpole at a soaking wet Misano to using slicks tyres on ice and he hasn't yet figured out how he managed to drop his RSV4 twice at very slow speed.
The former British Champion crashed twice in the opening session without even putting in a lap and says he didn't even make the apex of either corner - in fact there was virtually no angle of lean at all in either incident.
"I don't know what went wrong, it was like using slicks on ice out there. Both crashes were at no speed with no lean angle and on out laps. I was just rolling round. Maybe the tyres needed some more heat in or that track is ten per cent slower than what I consider riding slowly in the wet," said Camier, speaking to bikesportnews.com this evening.
"It's a shame cos we found a load of pace in the dry practice session beforehand. I was third and although I'm not sure I could have run with Max for Checa for the whole race, a podium was so definitely on the cards. I can't see that happening now as Misano is a hard place to make up easy places and I can probably only just see the lights from where I am."
