The second day has begun for the JiR Team Scot squad as they research tyre solutions and suspension settings ahead of the first round of the 250cc GP championship here in a week’s time. Today Yuki didn’t want to push too hard, as he wanted to work with both Dunlop and Showa technicians to improve the setting and ‘feel’ of the Honda RS250RW. At the end of the day the result is that JiR Team Scot are very satisfied with the result and tomorrow they hope to verify their whole technical package during the final day’s testing.
Gianni Berti – Technical Coordinator, JiR Team Scot
“Yesterday the performance of Yuki was very good and he showed his true colours, which is why today we concentrated on our tyre and suspension work without looking too much at the lap time but instead we were checking different solutions for the race. One of the priorities was the front tyre, which Yuki decided to work on, along with the final tuning of the suspension and later of the gearbox settings. A lot of work was done today in the garage and Yuki did a number of medium runs to fine-tune his race configuration. Tomorrow we will look at the final choices we have made after two very intense days of work.”
Yuki Takahashi – Rider, JiR Team Scot 250GP
“I didn’t want to push too hard today! Today we had a schedule to test front tyres and test these very thoroughly so that was the job! I’m very satisfied as I found a good solution we also discovered a setting for the front fork to improve the bike’s handling. I did some 10 lap runs on used tyres to verity our consistency. Tomorrow is the final day and we’ll bring all things together in a bid to be ready for the race.”
Yutaka Hirano – Crew chief, JiR Team Scot 250GP
“Today our schedule was very delicate and was spent finding that elusive front tyre that we always want and then the fork and gearbox settings. We are looking to put Yuki in the condition to have a good pace for the race, but tomorrow we need to verify the small details. We’re trying to find a good technical balance and at the end of the day we were also working on carburettor settings as the weather conditions today were different to those of yesterday and things could well change before the race!”
Test Doha 250GP – Day 2
1. Mattia Pasini - Aprilia - 1’59”761
2. Alvaro Bautista - Aprilia - 2’00”516
3. Alex Debon - Aprilia - 2’00”550
4. Hector Barbera - Aprilia - 2’00”719
5. Mika Kallio - KTM - 2’00”878
16. Yuki Takahashi - Honda - 2’01”956
