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WSS Monza: Lascorz and Fujiwara prepare for a test of pace

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05 maggio 2009

WSS Monza: Lascorz and Fujiwara prepare for a test of pace

The fast Monza circuit throws up its unique annual challenge this coming weekend, a challenge which Joan Lascorz and Katsuaki Fujiwara are prepared to meet head-on as the season builds in intensity.

With Lascorz having taken the team’s first podium finish at Assen last weekend, spirits are high in the Provec Motocard.com Kawasaki squad, with the aim this weekend to get both riders into the top few positions.

Fujiwara, 21-times a WSS podium finisher, scored his more recent career victory at Monza, in 2005, while Lascorz is out for his first Monza podium.

Since the last race in Assen the team has been busy making preparations for the Italian weekend, as this unique circuit requires a unique approach in terms of chassis set-up and use of top end power. Heavy braking, quick changes of direction, high-speed stability and slipstreaming are all key at Monza, with particular emphasis placed on making the correct gearing choices for both slipstreaming and running in clean air.

After Monza the WSS competitors, along with the WSBK teams, head for Kyalami in South Africa on 17 May, and then a busy month of is rounded out by the US round, at Miller Motorsports Park, on 31 May.

Katsuaki Fujiwara: “We didn’t get the result we could have on raceday at Assen, because in practice we started out very fast but had some problems in the race. But we scored points and at Monza I want to have many more. I like Monza, it’s fast in places and has heavy Braking in other places. It’s not like anywhere else.”

Joan Lascorz: “I felt comfortable on the bike in the previous round and I was running up front, even through we still have some work to do on the set-up of the bike, which is a new model this year of course. We have been making improvements all the time so I hope for more at Monza so that I can have another good result.”