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FIRST PERSON/OPINION

Via e-mail:

I played hookey yesterday and watched the Dunlop tire test.

There were only four riders, Mladin, Duhamel, Bostrom and Yates. Mladin could turn consistant 1:49.50s – 1:50.00s on good tires. The Hondas were in the 1:52s all day.

Yates only ran a few laps in the afternoon on a bike with brand new unpainted bodywork. He ran low 1:50s on the few laps he did do.

Mladin seemed to fall off after three laps and back into the 1:50s so who knows how long they would last or if he was just done.

David White
CCS Am #106
Palm Harbor, Florida