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Colin Edwards: " We had major issues with chatter"
After the three day test at Sepang, the general consensus on the CRT bikes present wasn’t good - they were massively slow - despite the fact that they will be future of MotoGP racing.
Colin Edwards who is riding the Suter-BMW prototype for NGM Forward Racing Team was the fastest rider of that small group of bikes, seemed satisfied with the progress and improvement, in what was his second test on the bike. The Texas Tornado managed to lower the lap times from a 2.08.240 in the first session to a ‘respectable’ 2.04.722 on the final day (he was still 5.115 seconds from Sepang leader Casey Stoner), having issues with chatter due to the new Bridgestone tires, something that the Repsol Honda riders also complained about.
Here’s what Edwards has to say after the Malaysian test:
“After the first day we obviously realized we had some major issues with some chatter that we have been working hard. The electronics, since Jerez have been developed and have come a long way and I’m really happy with it. The Bosh guys have been working hard, when I ask for something they make it happen.
It was a little difficult coming here after what happened with Marco on the race. My first lap around obviously, I slowed up on turn eleven and kind of paid my respects to Marco real quietly and got on with the job and getting the bike better and develop it. I honestly thought 2.02, 2.03s were possible with three days, but I did not expect we were going to encounter chatter. At the end of the day we did 2.04 but there is easily a 2.03 or mid 2.02 if we don’t have chatter and that really what I have to work on the next test. We just have to come back and solve the problems.
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Jerez Moto2 test day 1
The first day of private testing at sunny Jerez saw a potpourri of machines, a factory MotoGP, three CRTs and a bevy of Moto2s and one lonely World Superbike team.
Ducati had their test team out on the Spanish track with the addition of 2011 World Superbike champion Carlos Checa lending a helping hand in the development of the GP12. Mouths were shut tight on lap times and Checa only tweeted “Nice experience, different feelings in sunny Jerez.”
Colin Edwards finally returned to action following the shoulder injury he sustained in the tragic accident at Sepang that claimed the life of Marco Simoncelli (today is a month since he passed away). Edwards got his first taste of NGM Forward Racing team’s CRT bike that sports a BMW S1000RR engine and a Suter chassis, which is one of more developed CRT bikes. Edwards posted the fastest lap for the CRT group that saw Ivan Silva on the Inmotec and Yonni Hernandez on the BQR - FTR Kawasaki, but he was still one second slower than Scott Redding who topped the unofficial timesheets for the Moto2 category despite a crash earlier today.
Colin Edwards: "Vale and I couldn't have avoided Marco "
Colin Edwards won’t be at Valencia for the final MotoGP race of the season and his last race with Yamaha Tech3 as he underwent successful surgery yesterday to fix the multiple fractures he sustained in the Sepang crash in which Marco Simoncelli lost his life.
In an interview with Italy’s Gazzetta dello Sport, the highly popular American rider talked about how sorry that he can’t be at Valencia (Josh Hayes will be taking his place ) and how being involved in Marco Simoncelli’s death affected him.
“The last few days have been tough, especially the first 24 hours after the accident when I asked myself a thousand questions: could have done something different? Back home I saw the video of the incident and I quickly found the answer: No, I couldn’t have done absolutely anything to avoid Marco and like me neither could have Valentino. It’s hard losing a friend, but I think I’d feel the same pain even if I had not been directly involved in the accident.” said Edwards.
Yet the Texas Tornado briefly thought about quitting, “I thought about it for a day, until I saw the images, and that was the end of it. We’ve lost a bright star, Marco was loved by fans for his personality, his character, his charisma. People love to watch our races, but it’s not only for that, but it’s also what we can transmit and Marco was a personality and there aren’t many in MotoGP and I’m sure some will disagree with this. I really liked the way he related to the fans. “
Edwards will be riding a CRT machine for NGM Forward Racing in 2012.
Source | lastampa.it
Josh Hayes to replace Colin Edwards at Valencia
With Colin Edwards set to undergo surgery next week and unable to take part in the final MotoGP race of the season at Valencia, Yamaha Tech3 has decided to replace him with Josh Hayes.
Hayes was already set to be at Valencia to test theYamaha M1 during the official post season test, a gift by Yamaha USA after his winning the 2011 AMA Superbike Championship, but now he’ll get his debut ride in the actual race weekend.
Source | asphaltandrubber.com
Colin Edwards ruled out of final race of the season at Valencia
Colin Edwards will have to miss the MotoGP season finale at Valencia and his last race with Yamaha Tech3 following the injuries he sustained during that fatal lap 2 at Sepang that claimed the life of Marco Simoncelli last weekend.
The YamahTech3 rider will have to undergo surgery on a left arm injury due to numerous small fractures at the top of his humerous bone that also has cartilage damage around the tip of the same bone and has severe swelling to both wrists and right heel, but fortunately for the Texan there are no fractures.
“Firstly, I want to thank everybody for all their messages of support since Sunday. The support and love has been overwhelming and it has been a great comfort to me at this difficult time. My heart goes out to the family and friends of Marco and I will miss him a lot, as will the entire MotoGP family. I watched Marco’s funeral yesterday and I really wish I could have been there. I wanted to go but unfortunately my injuries meant I was unable to travel. I know Valentino spoke to Marco’s family on my behalf and I thank him for that. It was a great service and a fitting celebration of his life. I also wanted to be in Valencia next week to give my support to MotoGP, but it is not going to be possible because of the surgery I need on my left arm. The top of my left humerus bone has got multiple small fractures but the cartilage that is around the top of the bone has been pulled off. The surgery will anchor the cartilage back to the bone but there is no nerve damage, so I should be 100 per cent in about four weeks,” said Edwards.
His team is currently considering a replacement rider for Valencia and the Yamaha factory team has yet to confirm if Jorge Lorenzo and Ben Spies will be fit to ride next weekend.
Colin Edwards: "God speed my friend"
Colin Edwards together with Valentino Rossi were the riders who unavoidably collided against Marco Simoncelli on Sunday as the Gresini rider slid out desperatly trying to save his Honda as he did dozens of times before.
Edwards is suffering a dislocated shoulder and apparently numerous other fractures from the horrific and tragic crash and this is understandably the Texas Tornado’s first comment on the tragic event from his Facebook page:
“Thanks to everyone for ur support at this time :( Very sad to see a friend pass in any case. I’m holding up ok mentally, it was a very tragic accident :( Physically, besides a dislocated shoulder & ligaments involved, think both wrists & left heel have fractures too, getting X-rays on Wednesday. I feel sad for the whole MotoGP community right now, my heart is heavy for everyone affected, from family to fans. God speed my friend, u will be missed.”
Colin Edwards to ride a Suter-BMW
Forward Racing couldn’t have picked a more popular rider and mouthpiece than Colin Edwards to announce that the team will be fielding a Suter-BMW machine next season.
The veteran MotoGP rider confirmed he would be riding for the Claiming Rule Team (CRT) early last September and hinted that the team could be using a Yamaha R1 engine inside of one of Guy Coulon’s Tech3 chassis, however this was shot down by Yamaha, so the team turned to the only CRT based bike that has been extensively developed so far, the Suter-BMW.
The Suter-BMW uses a SBK spec S1000RR engine inside a Suter chassis and the bike ridden by Moto2 rider Mika Kallio at the Brno test in August was 3.9 seconds slower than Casey Stoner on the RC213V, but this was already a definite improvement from when the Finn tested the machine at Mugello in July when it was over six seconds slower, always compared to Stoner.
Edwards will have have a vast amount of work to do in 2012 as he tries to make this machine competitive over the season.
Source | mcn.com
Colin Edwards to ride for Forward Racing CRT team in 2012
Colin Edwards announced late this afternoon what many already suspected, he’s staying in MotoGP in 2012 and be riding for NGM Forward Racing’s CRT team making him the first rider to be officially confirmed as part of a CRT tea,.
The American will be the sole rider of the new MotoGP squad and should be riding a machine powered by a Yamaha R1 engine, but the chassis maker is still unknown, but Edwards would prefer it to be a Tech3 chassis.
While the team has been linked to a BMW/Suter set-up, it was confirmed during the press conference that the Italian team is in negotiations with Edward’s current boss Herve Poncharal and Guy Coulon, his current crew chief and designer of Tech 3’s Moto2 chassis.
Colin Edwards MotoGP future
I come from a family with a very strong history in being runners-up. A couple of generation’s of school reports include words like “diligent”, “consistent” and even “above average” but never “champion” or “outstanding”. Our family heirlooms include a series of runners-up trophies in everything from tennis, to golf, to football.
Which is why I totally dig a guy like Colin Edwards. He might not be up there with the Rossi’s (though not this season), Stoner’s and Lorenzo’s of the world but if there’s someone MotoGP needs right now, it’s people like him. Not just because he’s funny, irreverent and a character, but because he proves that you can make a career in this business without appearing among the “best of” statistics all the time with multiple championship wins under your belt. I don’t want to suggest he’s not a champion in his own right, but he really proves that there are other qualities that make a rider.
Edwards is expected to make an announcement this weekend at the Misano MotoGP round on his future, but he’s got plenty of options and some tantalising prospects, among which are remaining with the Yamaha Tech3 team because of his development skills, or again for those skills to move to one of the new CRT teams (rumoured connections with NGM Forward Racing here). Original rumours that Edwards was going out to pasture in World Superbikes seem to have abated and he’s stated he wants to stay where he is. More after the jump.
Yamaha riders talk about their Indianpolis race
We were expecting to see Ben Spies on the Indianapolis podium after his strong practice sessions, but he got bottled up and pushed back and ended up having to ride through the pack to make up for the lost time, it was also nice to see that Yamaha hadn’t given any team orders (anyone happen to remember what went down in Yamaha after the 2010 Motegi race?) to the American regarding him passing his team mate.
Jorge Lorenzo’s race was more of an uphill struggle, unable to find anything good in the asphalt and in his front tires, leaving him with another major setback in trying to keep his title. He was so desperate to turn his weekend around that he admitted that even tried Colin Edwards and Ben Spies’ settings and final decided to use his team mate settings in the race, but his tires dropped off after the seventh lap and when he returned to his garage his Bridgestones were completely shot compared to Spies.
Ben Spies - 3rd
“My actual start wasn’t too bad, just a couple of people got into turn one too hot and I got bottled in. I think Dovi came across in front of me in turn four and I was just glad to stay on the bike. I never even saw him. After that happened we just had to pluck away and not get ahead of ourselves. We rode well but just needed to be up there in the first four turns. I rode as fast as I could; it was tough to pass out there as we couldn’t get it done on the straight so we had to figure out some different spots. I was happy to be able to do that and still run good pace at the end.”
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Colin Edwards to wear Navy Seals tribute helmet at Indy
That Yamaha Tech3 star Colin Edwards is a very strong supporter of the military (besides loving guns and rocket launchers) is a pretty well known fact, and to honour those soldiers who were shot down in Afghanistan earlier this month, he’ll be donning this special design on his Arai helmet featuring the insignia of the US Navy Seals for this weekend’s Indianapolis GP.
Source | hellforleather.com
Colin Edwards returning to World Superbikes?
It looks like Colin Edwards doesn’t want to retire at the end of this MotoGP season and still wants to ride, but as he’s kind of getting long in the tooth for the very youngish MotoGP grid, and despite some good performances including a 3rd place podium at Silverstone a week after collarbone surgery, the 37-year old Texan could make a return to World Superbikes next year and try to take on oldies, but goldies Superbike leaders Carlos Checa (38) and Max Biaggi (40).
Edwards was poised to make the switch last season and was negotiating with Ducati Xerox until the Italian manufacturer decided to pull out their factory effort, while this time the American is in talks with the BMW Motorrad team, even though there may be other options as he revealed to GPWeek.
While the highly popular Edwards hopes to stay on with Yamaha Tech3 for another year, team owner Herve Poncharal has been inundated with requests from riders to take over Edwards M1. Current Moto2 points leader Stefan Bradl has been eyed by Yamaha’s head honcho Lin Jarvis very early on (unless the German rider ends up on Honda and with an all German team under Lucio Cecchinello’s watch) which could be an option as Yamaha would directly foot Bradl’s contract. English rider Bradley Smith could make the vertical move from Poncharal’s Moto2 team and team up with Cal Crutchlow which would make it popular with British fans and the BBC, as could Eugene Laverty.
The Northern Irishman had talks with the French manager at Brno, after losing his 2012 WSBK ride when Yamaha made their shock pullout announcement and is recorded as saying he’s “optimistic” about a MotoGP ride. Randy de Puniet is also rumored to make the switch to World Superbikes, and he’s always been on Poncharal’s wishlist, with the manager’s eye on the marketing appeal of a French rider in a French team to pull in more sponsors.
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