Edwards analyses Austin and looks forward to Jerez

The Austin GP comes to an end at the Circuit Of The Americas and Colin Edwards leaves Texas feeling he has not achieved the set goals for this GP.

The American rider had very high expectations for his first ever GP in his home state.

Unfortunately last minute chatter problems have prevented the Texas Tornado to achieve his goal of providing a good show for his Texan fans.

The team is already looking forward to next Grand Prix that will take place at Jerez de la Frontera in two weeks time.

Colin Edwards – Not Classified

“Not that the bike was perfect yesterday, but it felt ok to be able to race today but unfortunately wasn’t. We went out this morning and overnight we developed chatter problems. We had some issues with drivetrain problems again this weekend that we’ve been trying to sort out and for safety sake, with all the issued that we’ve had it was better to come in before having a serious crash.”

Sergio Verbena – MotoGP Technical Director

“Yesterday we were confident that we would be able to do a better race today but unexpectedly we had some problems that we didn’t have during the rest of the weekend. A lot of strange vibrations while braking on the rear of the bike that were getting worse lap by lap and not allowing him to stop the bike. In the last lap he went straight twice and the problem was accentuating itself so he decided to retire. We don’t quite understand why we didn’t have this problems on Friday or Saturday so we will have to go over the data to be ready for Jerez.”