After struggling with cornering on his Honda RCV all weekend, the final day of testing was fairly unsuccessful for Makoto Tamada, as the varying weather conditions made working on development difficult. In the main session of the weekend Tamada came 12th, although he did opt to conclude his session early in order to focus on testing in the afternoon.

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Makoto Tamada, Konica Minolta Honda: 2.02,197

"Today's test day has been nearly unhelpful. I could only test the bike on wet conditions for the fist time this year. The impression is the same I had already had with a dry race bike setting, therefore, even in this conditions the last part of the corner approach, is still the phase to be improved.. I am not able yet to ride as I would like to, because I have to force the bike too much to ...Read the full article. (http://www.motoreview.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=179&Itemid=29)