Thursday, December 15 2011
Crescent Racing and Yoshimura continue in their preparation for the start of their first World Superbike Series in 2012. According to Team Manager, Jack Valentine, the former BSB team have encountered many interesting challenges- everything is new to them as they enter the world of WSBK.
Valentine: “With the first round being a fly away at PI and with all the new partners like Yoshimura and new things which have been introduced, we are in the process of making that all gel together. We are also in the process of changing workshop so we have quite a lot of things on our plate. We have to be realistic and we are aiming to be ready for Phillip Island. We will be testing the week before the official tests so we are flat out getting organised for that. It is not so much the normal type of logistics – as if we were going to Europe – the first round is a fly away, so we have to get out flight cases organised and start shipping the stuff. That is a new thing we have to adjust to and we have a lot of parts coming in now. It is just organisation now, to be honest. The start is such a short while away and everything just shuts down over Christmas. We have new suspension and braking systems and all the usual things before the start of the season and upgrading everything because we are trying to find that little bit extra. We are upping our game, so we have a lot on.
“We will have two engines with us in January, to fit into the motorcycles before we leave for Australia. That is to check out that all the systems are working all right before we to go to Australia, and our other engines from Yoshimura will be delivered to Phillip Island. We will be testing in PI on 13, 14 and 15 February. We are looking forward to it and we are working as hard as we can to be contenders, not just a new team coming into the championship to participate and see how we get on. We are entering the championship in as serious a way as we can, it is the only way we do things.”
