Traction botheration for Stoner to solve

Birthday boy Casey Stoner is blessed to be aback in activity at his home accident but wants to advance the anchor on his Desmosedici as the weekend progresses and he seeks addition Phillip Island win.

On the break of his 24th altogether Casey Stoner was admiring to be up abreast the top of the timesheets on Friday at the Iveco Australian Grand Prix, but he is gluttonous an advance with the absorption he is accepting from his Desmosedici GP9 about the high-speed, bouncing Phillip Island circuit.

Stoner looks to be accepting aback appear abounding competitiveness afterwards his abiding concrete problems beforehand in the season, but at his additional accident aback advancing aback from affliction he aswell needs his chase amalgamation to be at 100% in adjustment to affected the brand of Valentino Rossi, Dani Pedrosa and Jorge Lorenzo.

The Ducati Marlboro addition was additional on the FP1 timesheet, alone 0.135s abaft paceman Rossi, but ever-the-perfectionist he was black with the achievement of his machine.

He told motogp.com, “We still charge added traction. It’s a accepted complaint from riders but abnormally with our bike, because we accept got it axis actual able-bodied now but we charge added absorption on the continued corners. Unfortunately, if we get bigger anchor on the rear we lose the axis on the front, so we accept to try and acquisition the compromise. Absorption is usually a able point of our bike.”

Overall though, the Australian has a absolute angle on diplomacy as he goes in seek of a third after home win, aswell stating, “It’s nice to be here, because a few weeks ago we just knew that we would be demography allotment actuality and we did not apperceive if we would be aggressive or not. Everything seems to be ok admitting and I feel acceptable in myself. We still charge to plan on the bike a bit added to be accessible to win, but I anticipate I am in a acceptable abundant action to action for the accomplished chas.

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