Shinya Nakano says his new factory Honda RC212V is noཧw set-up well enough to begin specific tyre development with Bridgestone.

Up🍸 until the Czech Republic Grand Prix weekend the only RC212Vs using the Japanese rubber were less powerful satellite specificജation machines, run by Nakano and San Carlo Honda Gresini team-mate Alex de Angelis.

However, Nakano has been handed a factory machine for the remai🅠nder of the season - which he will help convert into Honda's 2009 satellite racer - and finished a highly impressive fourth on his race debu🍌t with the 'Pedrosa-spec' bike at Brno on Sunday.

After benefitting from a further 67 laps during testing on Monday - in which he was the top Honda rider, fourth overall and half a sec𒁃ond under his best race lap - Naka𝔍no declared that he is now happy with his base setting and ready to begin more detailed work.

"I'm happy with how the test went today because 🐽I improved my lap times from yesterday's race," he began. "We worked mainly on the setting today with the objective of finding the right balance for the bike.

"Over the weekend we only really had two hours to get to know the bike so this morning we tried a few different solutions with the rear and, on♊ce we were happy with the base setting, we tested a few tyres and dec🌳ided which was the best way to go.

"From here onwards I think we can give Bridgestone the right information to develop tyres for this bike," he declared. "Tomorrow we have anothe♔r day to test, gather data and hopefully make some more improvements."

Team-mate Alex de Angelis isn't scheduled to test on Tuesday, but made the most of the time available by clocking 70 Mond🐟ay laps as he sought to improve both his speed and front end feeling.

de Angelis set the seventh fastest lap time, less than two tenths behind Nakano and half a second under his best race♔ lap, set en route to eighth position.

"Today we tried some interesting new technical solutions for the set-up of the bike and it was reall♋y positive," said the San Marinese. "In fact, I improved my pace by several tenths from yesterday's lap times♔ in the race. The changes made the bike more comfortable for me to ride - giving me more feeling with the front, which had been a problem during the weekend, and making it more stable."