'No drastic improvement' for Hayden after Misano MotoGP

Ducati's Nicky Hayden left a Misano after a three-day MotoGP test without making any major improvements to the Desmosedici GP13 save for a new anti-wheelie strategy which he says will be useful for Sachsenring next weekend.

The 2006 world champion ended the test with a low 1'34s laptime whicvh compares well with Casey Stoner's outright record of 1'33.138 set in 2011.

"It’s certainly been a useful couple of days. We didn’t make any drastic improvements, but I tried something with a different anti-wheelie solution that worked quite well, and I’m happy about that for the next two tracks, which are maybe the worst two circuits for wheelies on the whole calendar," said Hayden.

"We lost a bit of time today with the rain, but in the end I did a low 1:34. That’s not a bad lap time, although we’ll certainly have to do better than that when we come here for the race. We did a lot of laps, mainly with the wheelie control and a different fork setting, and we got some good information.”

By MotoGP desk

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