The Yamaha World Superbike team, as well as the Supersport Yamaha ParkinGo team, have just finished up a two day testing session at the Aragon circuit in Spain. The Yamaha group had an extremely successful weekend in Monza last weekend and will now look to capitalize on their momentum.
Yamaha took home every win at the Italian circuit last weekend. In the World Superbike class, Eugene Laverty took home an amazing double, while Chaz Davies took home the win in the World Supersport class. Neither rider had much time to celebrate as the Yamaha team went almost directly to Aragon for two days of testing.
For Laverty, it was was his first time at the Aragon track and he was glad he got to see it before the World Superbike series heads to Spain for the 7th round of the series in June.
“I like Aragon, it’s an interesting one, yet not simple at all,” Laverty said. “I just wanted to learn the track and I’m glad we had this opportunity. It was tricky to get good speed in due to the fast change of direction. I worked a lot on improving my lining and adjusting my riding style to suit the flow of the track. The bike was working very well though and I’m pretty sure that we can head to the race here next month with confidence.”
Marco Melandri was also fairly new to the track. Melandri rode at Aragon once in the MotoGP in 2010, but this will be his first time riding at the circuit with the Yamaha World Superbike team.
“We worked very hard over the last two days,” Melandri said. “I had some problems with the bike in Monza and that’s become clearer now in Aragon. I suffered a lack of stability on exiting curves but we started working on solving the problem and the input from this track has been extremely useful. We have a lot of work to do still, but I’m definitely more confident and I’m glad we had the opportunity to test here.”
