Barbera happy with noticable improvement in second preseason test
As usual, the well done work and the persistence produce results and the Avintia Blusens team has not been an exception for this. Hiroshi Aoyama and Héctor Barberá have done excellent practice sessions in this last test in Malaysia, which ranks them among the best riders in their category before heading towards the Jerez circuit to finish the pre-season.
After the first test on this same track in Sepang, both riders announced that they still had work to do and that testing a new chassis and a more developed electronics, which they hoped to improve its features, was missing. Back home, already on the Avintia Blusens installations, technicians and mechanics worked without a break to have ready the developments that had to be tested in this second test in Malaysia and the results have been very satisfactory. Barberá has improved his lap times in more than one second finishing as the third faster rider among the CRTs and, what’s more important, with very good feelings about the bike. Aoyama, almost without discomfort in his hand, has also improved his lap times and is satisfied with the evolution achieved.
8_Héctor Barberá (2’03.155): “I am very happy, because we have improved noticeably and we have greatly solved the chattering problem. It has not disappeared entirely, but in a large extent, and that allows me to ride better and more comfortable. During the first two days I rode with the chassis of the previous test and today I did it with the new one and, although it is not very different, it incorporates little changes that I have liked. We have also made progress with electronics, we begin to “understand it” better and we are on the right way. The general assessment is very positive. We have ridden a second and four tenths faster than in previous test on this same track, we are three tenths slower than the best CRT and, above all, we have managed to have a very good pace with used tyres. The truth is that I have very good feelings before the last test in Jerez.”
Source: Avintia Racing
