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Shinya Nakano returned to testing today at Phillip Island having recovered from a fever and stomach cramps that cut short his first day of Australian testing for his KONICA MINOLTA Honda team. The 29-year-old Japanese rider was feeling much better today after a long rest overnight and immediately set about testing suspension settings and new front tyres for the team.

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Ducati dominated the second day of testing at Phillip Island both with the qualifying tyres used on the satellite team version of Alex Barros and with race tyres, which were tested today by Loris Capirossi and Casey Stoner while they continued their set-up work on the new GP7 machines.

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KONICA MINOLTA Honda was forced to halt testing early on day one of the three-day Phillip Island test due to rider Shinya Nakano suffering from an illness. He and the team jointly decided to halt the test early at around 2.30pm.

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A three-day test for Ducati at the Phillip Island circuit got underway today. The excellent work carried out by the Ducati Marlboro Team in the recent tests at Sepang allowed Loris Capirossi to rapidly find a good set-up on his Desmosedici GP7 and he ended the day just a few tenths of a second off the circuit record.

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On the first day of the second winter testing session held at the beautiful Phillip Island circuit in Australia, Alex Barros begin to work in earnest on the set-up of his DUCATI Desmosedici GP7, clocking the best laptime of the day, while Alex Hofmann followed in seventh position, now at peak physical condition after the illness he suffered in Malaysia.

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KONICA MINOLTA Honda arrives at the next leg of their gruelling winter test schedule aiming to find a good base set-up for their all-new Honda RC212V.

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Despite being hampered by uncharacteristically bad weather Ilmor GP’s first outing of 2007 still resulted in significant progress at the southern Spanish circuit of Almeria this weekend.

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The hot temperatures ( 34° degrees the air temperature and the 53° degree the tarmac ) made the third and last day of testing more difficult for the Honda Team riders busy at Sepang in preparation of the 2007 Championship. Tomorrow riders and team will fly to Australia for the second testing session scheduled at Phillip Island starting from the 30th of January.

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The third and final day of testing in Malaysia came to a close today in stifling heat, with Loris Capirossi successfully completing set-up work on his Desmosedici GP7, both on an engine and suspension level and with the tyres.

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Rizla Suzuki MotoGP racer John Hopkins completed 2007’s first test at Sepang in Malaysia today with a simulated race distance, bettering his 990cc race time from 2006 by an incredible seven seconds.

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KONICA MINOLTA Honda’s first test of the 2007 season came to a successful end today, following three days of hard work getting used to the new V4 Honda RC212V.

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The Yamaha Factory Racing Team rounded off their first test of 2007 in fine style today, with Valentino Rossi topping the unofficial time sheets after three days of testing.

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Randy de Puniet’s confidence in Kawasaki’s 800cc Ninja ZX-RR received a massive boost during the third and final day of testing at Sepang, when the Kawasaki pilot managed to dip below his personal best time at the 5.543km Malaysian circuit.

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Testing in Malaysia is continuing at a rapid pace for the riders of the Ducati Marlboro Team who today were able to take advantage of more sunny weather and continue development work on the new 800cc machine.

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Today at the Sepang circuit in Malaysia, the KONICA MINOLTA Honda team made more progress with their new rider Shinya Nakano in the first major test of the 2007 MotoGP season.

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A second day of testing in Malaysia today saw the Yamaha Factory Racing Team continue to come on in leaps and bounds with the development of their new prototype 800cc motorcycle.

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After the end of the obligatory winter testing ban and the traditional presentation of the Ducati Marlboro Team on the snows of Madonna di Campiglio, Loris Capirossi and his new team-mate Casey Stoner took to the track today for the first time in 2007, the first year of the new 800cc MotoGP technical regulations, at the Sepang circuit in Malaysia.

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Randy de Puniet and Olivier Jacque completed more than 700 trouble free kilometres during the opening day of testing at Sepang, with the younger Frenchman underlining the potential of Kawasaki’s new 800cc Ninja ZX-RR by finishing the day seventh fastest overall.

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The riders participating to the 2007 MotoGP World Championship returned on track today at Sepang with the new 800cc prototypes for the first test of the year. Temperatures of 30°C in the air, 40°C on the ground and a 70% humidity rate permitted to make the best use of the first test day in Malaysia.

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Yamaha Factory Racing Team riders Valentino Rossi and Colin Edwards got the new year off to a promising start at the first MotoGP test of the season in Sepang, Malaysia today, setting the third and fourth fastest times respectively.

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