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ALSTARE MEN REFRESHED FOR LAUSITZ
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ALSTARE MEN REFRESHED FOR LAUSITZ
September 4, 2007
Team Suzuki Press Office - September 4, 2007.
After a five-week break, Team Alstare Suzuki Corona Extra's Max Biaggi
and Yukio
Kagayama are refreshed and ready for the 11th round of this year's
Superbike World
Championship at the Eurospeedway Lausitz in Germany this weekend.
Both riders tested at the track in June this year, so it will be one
circuit that
Biaggi will not be seeing for the first time. Kagayama took a superb win
in the
first race last year and fourth in the second and will be hoping for
more of the
same this year.
The 4.3 kilometre long track is part of one of the biggest and modern
race tracks in
the world and only opened for business in 2000.
Max Biaggi:
"Although I have not raced at Lausitz, I tested here earlier this year
so at least I
know which way the track goes round! Although it's not a hugely
demanding circuit,
it is a track where you need a good rhythm if you are to lap quickly.
So, once
again, a good set-up is important. Getting a podium in the last round,
at a circuit
I was racing at for the first time, was very important for me. I have
confidence in
my own ability and I always give 100% and I will be going to Lausitz
with the same
attitude. If everything goes well, there is no reason why I cannot take
a podium -
though two would be better!"
Yukio Kagayama:
"Last year I had good results in Lausitz so I would like some more of
the same this
year. The track is OK, though it is not the most difficult track in the
calendar. It
is mostly flat and there are some slow corners and sometimes it can be a
bit of a
one-line track. Because of the first chicane and series of bends before
the first
long straight, it is very important to get a good start. If you don't,
the first
riders can pull out a gap and then it's very hard to catch them up and
challenge for
the lead. I want to be in the top three at the start of both races and
be fighting
for the podium places at the end."
2006 results:
Race 1: 1 Yukio Kagayama (J-Alstare Suzuki Corona Extra), 2 Haga
(J-Yamaha), 3
Corser (Aus-Alstare Suzuki Corona Extra), 4 Pitt (Aus-Yamaha), 5 Barros
(Bra-Honda),
6 Muggeridge (Aus-Honda).
Race 2:1 Toseland (GB-Honda), 2 Haga, 3 Bayliss (Aus-Ducati), 4 Yukio
Kagayama
(J-Alstare Suzuki Corona Extra), 5 Muggeridge, 6 Lanzi (I-Ducati).
Max Biaggi - DNS.
For more stories about Yukio Kagayama, click here.For photos, click here
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After a five-week break, Team Alstare Suzuki Corona Extra's Max Biaggi
and Yukio
Kagayama are refreshed and ready for the 11th round of this year's
Superbike World
Championship at the Eurospeedway Lausitz in Germany this weekend.
Team Alstare Suzuki Corona Extra rider Max Biaggi raced to third place
in his first
ever race at Brands Hatch in front of a huge sun-baked crowd of over
100,000 at
today's World Superbike Championship round.
Yukio Kagayama will take his first front-row start of the season after
today's
Superpole for the Brands Hatch World Superbike Championship round.
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