At Jerez, for example, the trio will broadcast for more than eight hours over three days, including practice, qualifying and the races for all three classes.
Friday am - Toseland's New Chassis Will Aid His Qualifying Blitz
James Toseland's strategy for Jerez is clear: qualify strongly in order to have the chance of a top six finish. The plan might sound obvious, but Jerez's sinuous nature and narrow width make a blazing Saturday-afternoon lap even more critical than at most circuits.
"There's only a short distance from the start line to the first corner and from that one to the second corner," Toseland's manager Roger Burnett said. "If you're not clean away you have to wait your turn with the bunch getting through those turns."
Jerez is only 11 metres wide - the only narrower tracks on the
MotoGP calendar are
Donington and Sachsenring, at 10 metres - so passing isn't easy. "Having a great race setup but being 12th on the grid is no help at all here," Burnett added.
Toseland's performance on the Tech 3 Yamaha at Qatar, where he qualified for the front row in his MotoGP debut, proves that he can achieve a banzai effort when necessary. At Jerez he will also be helped by the new chassis that he first used at Qatar.
"It helps the bike to hold its line mid-corner, and when the track is narrow that's particularly crucial," Burnett said. "If the bike is under-steering on a narrow circuit you run out of road very quickly."
The Toseland equipe is not letting his stunning Qatar performance - second on the grid, sixth in the race - lead to wild ideas of a podium finish here at
Jerez. He wants to keep learning, go faster when a more powerful pneumatic-valve engine arrives from Yamaha for the third round at Estoril, and think about podiums later in the season.
