"OK I guess, but we have had some issues with the rear traction but that, I think, is coming from the tyre," said Haga, who won both Monza races one year ago. "We have three different tyres and we have to make suspension settings for them all. I tried a few things this morning and this afternoon but we haven't found a good feeling yet. Tonight we change and we see what happens tomorrow. The front tyre choice has been made. Some of the other bikes seem very fast here."

Corser was only 0.2secs slower than Haga and is looking for better drive out of the corners to raise his top speed.

"The bike is not fast enough at the top end of the scale," said the double world champion. "The chassis we are finding some improvements with, we're not a long way away with it but we are still losing maybe half a second in straight-line speed. Having it rain during our test here last month was not so good but we are just not accelerating onto the straights the way we want to so far."

"Both riders are looking for more grip exiting the corners to let them hit full speed at the end of the straight and we are working for an overall better bike set-up," confirmed team manager Massimo Meregalli. "We lost some testing time last month but there was nothing we could do about that. Tomorrow we will make some improvements and we will try our best as always."