From a press release issued by Troy Corser’s publicist:

TROY HAPPY WITH FIRST TEST WITH PIRELLI.

Troy finished two days of tests at Valencia and left the Ricardo Tormo circuit happy enough with how things had gone. During the two days, Troy gave the Pirelli technicians a lot of feedback regarding the tyres and now Pirelli will go away and start building some tyres more suited to Troy’s Petronas FP1 bike. Troy deliberately left most of his bike’s set-up the same, so that he could evaluate how the Pirellis worked with the bike.

Although he couldn’t find an ideal combination of construction and compound, he managed to do a near race-distance and was happy how the tyres behaved at the end of the run. Now Troy will have a well-earned break and then get back into testing when Pirelli tell him and the team they have something for them to try out.

TROY- total 135 laps (over two days), best lap – 1:36.9

I’m reasonably happy (as usual!) with our first time with Pirelli. We never found an ideal combination of what we wanted, but we gave Pirelli a lot to work on and now we will wait and see what they produce. The Pirellis gave us pretty good grip, but we also experienced quite a bit of chattering and we’ll have to sort that out before we can push really hard. All in all, I think the test was productive and Pirelli have learnt something from us all in these two days. There’s not an awful lot more to say, but let’s now see what happens next.

It’ll be good to take a break now and get away from it all for a while. Then, I will come back refreshed and raring to go. Until then, have fun.