Marco Melandri helping Axel Bassani: ‘I have a lot of experience to help him’

Marco Melandri was a keen observer at the Catalunya WorldSBK test after serving as a rider coach for ♌Axel Bassani.

Axel Bassani
Axel Bassani

A 22-time WorldSBK race winner, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marco Melandri was in attendance to act as a rider coach for 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Axel Bassani although no conf💮irmation as to whether this will be a permanent deal has been made.

Melandri was one of the strongest WorldSBK riders on his day, and proved that by being able to beat the likes of Tom Sy🐠kes, Chaz Davies and Jonathan Rea. 

Bassani, who left Ducati to become a factory rider at Kawasaki is one of the most talented riders on the current WorldSBK gꦛrid.

However, his adaptation to the Z🅷X10-RR has proved difficult, but Melandri is not worried.

“His speed and talent are there; he has good potential,” Melandri told WorldSBK.com. “He's faster during🌃 the race than the test but I think they’ve done a great job.

“Every time he tested something, he could understand what was working and what wasn’t, so this is very important to improve day by day. He can a🍌chieve good results.

“Every bike is working in the same way; more or less, 🃏when you modify something, they’re the same and their characteristics are the same as each other. 

“That’s why I think I have a lot of experience that I can transfer to help him. I see him like a sponge; every time I spotted something o💟n track, he was taking it on board for the next run.🔥 

“It looks like he takes information well. His motivation is very high and this is a very good point🍨; it’s not al🐓ways easy so you have to keep it very high.

“His riding style ꦚis a good aspect too. He needs time to adapt as he comes from Ducati and it’s a different kind of bike. He’s working in aꦺ good way.”

In terms of the Catalunya𝄹 test, Bassani was only 15th f❀astest as he finished 1.3 seconds down on Nicolo Bulega’s top time.

Bassani added:ꦏ “During the day, it was the same as day one; yesterday: we found something in the last three laps which is good because finally, we arrived with a race tyre to do a really good lap, better than with th🌳e SCQ.

“We need to start from here to understand things for the race weekend. It’s not easy but it’s part of the job; we are here💦, we need to test and we’re doing it.

“We found some confidence with the front but we 💟have to work a loꦕt on the rear with the turning on the bike. We’re losing a lot of time in the long corners. 

“I’m looking to do a good Superpo🤪le because if you start in P15 or P16, then it’s impossible to fight with the top guys.

“If we start from ro🍌w two or three, we can f🅷ight for a good position.”

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