The holidays are over and although the new year has hardly started, Troy has begun the season. Today was the first day of the Phillip island tests and Troy and the rest of the top World Superbike teams began the three days work in preparation for the first race of the year. Troy's fellow countryman, Troy Bayliss (Ducati) ended the day with the fastest lap, 1:32.6.

Troy Corser - 79 laps, best lap 1:33.4
"I know I say it a lot, but I'm reasonably happy with how the first day went today. It's been over four weeks since I was last on a bike, so it was good to throw my leg over one today and get back into the groove. We have a lot of work to do here and many things to test, so I didn't chase any lap times at all. The bike is the same as it was in Qatar in the last test, but we just have more stuff to try out and find a good direction. There were no problems at all, except for the birds here on the track. They just don't seem to get out of the way! Some of them are pretty big as well and I actually had to take to the dirt to avoid smashing right into one. As it was, I did clip one, but when I looked back it seemed OK and was still on the track! Hopefully, there'll be less birdlife on the track tomorrow and we won't have any problems with them. Toda was a good start and I think we can improve quite a bit over the next couple of days".