Edwards makes Significant Progress at Sepang

The NGM Mobile Forward Racing Team concludes the second test at Sepang with a better understanding of the ECU and a significant progress in the lap times for Colin Edwards.

The team has completed the three-day testing Sepang in which they have worked on the electronics and chassis setting of the bike in order to provide both the American and Italian rider with the best possible conditions in order to continue their progress with their FTR- Kawaski bike.  The two-weeks break will be used to go over the data from this last Sepang test and will be useful in order to be better prepared for the next test. NGM Mobile Forward riders are now looking forward to the last official test of the season at Jerez de la Frontera that will take place on March 23th, 24th and 25th.

Colin Edwards – 5

“This second test at Sepang was way better. Every time we have made a change on we could actually feel the difference and that is always a good sign. The main thing here is the electronics, they are kind of inducing a few problems that we are currently having. We are taking it step by step. Electronics is our biggest issue right now; we are trying to figure out how to get it to be consistent. The chassis feels great; we still have a couple things that we can play around with the chassis. The engine feels strong. At Jerez we will be working on electronics and a bit with the chassis from the things that we found. The bike is good, we just need to refine a little bit.”

Sergio Verbena – MotoGP Technical Director

“Overall this second test went definitely better than the first test. The Electronic were completely new and we had to first learn how the system worked. These last three days we concentrate on the setup of chassis and the electronics.  The first 2 days were really complicated because it seemed we couldn't find the right path to follow and at the end of the second day we found what seems to be a good electronics setting. In terms of the chassis Colin was quite happy with the progress. We still are not using 100% of the bike’s potential, we are still learning a lot about new software. We are quite close with other CRT's, also in front of some of them. We need to analyze data to be ready for the next Jerez test, which will be very important in order to be ready for the first race. At the moment it seems that we need to modify our strategy.”