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Friday, 16th February 2007

Following an enforced rest after sustaining a muscle injury in his left leg on Tuesday, Jeremy McWilliams was back out on track for the final day of the Qatar test - then warned his Ilmor team about the massive amount of work ahead.

"We've learnt a lot over the past three days, actually over both recent tests," said Steve Miller, Ilmor's managing director. "We needed to understand the exact requirements of the engine before we could really play around with the chassis - the engine has such an enormous impact on the bikes rideability, the riders can't position the bike on the track effectively if the engine isn't doing exactly what they want it to do.

"Now we've spent a lot of time working with the engine and we can start to make some changes to the chassis set-up. I think Andrew really felt a difference today and his performance reflected that. I'm also really impressed with Jeremy's performance, it makes such a big difference having both of the rider's feedback to work with. We are slowly beginning to catch up on the rest of the pack and I think we'll find ourselves in a better starting point for the test in Jerez," he added.

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