Edwards makes it to 13th position during the first day of free practice at the AirAsia Australian Grand Prix, where the NGM Mobile Forward Racing Team can look positively forward to a the following two days.
The American rider has concluded today with the second best CRT lap time, having only one ART ahead of him.
Colin Edwards
“We are in lovely Australia, my favorite track in the whole wide world.
When we started this morning we had an idea to make some changes from we had in Malaysia and we did but it wasn’t enough. I have to say I am really proud of my guys, especially of my Crew Chief, today we made a change that he suggested in the morning that worked great and saved us a lot of time. This change gave us a really good direction to work on in the afternoon practice. Went out on the chassis that is a little bit different to the one I used last weekend, and with a lighter crankshaft. We seem to have an issue with front hopping but we have a couple of ideas to solve it tomorrow morning. You could say that this is my third home race and so far it feels good.”
Sergio Verbena – Crew Chief
“This morning we didn’t do so many laps due to the rain, and we also wanted to test immediately several new solutions to see which would have been the right direction to follow, to find the right setting for this specific race track. We found some change that Colin seemed to like particularly and during FP2 we were able to be in front of on of the aprilias that normally is faster than us. We have also identified some areas in which we can improve. The objective is to at least be in the 14th position tomorrow.”
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