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Friday, 12th October 2007

Colin Edwards had an opening day to forget at Phillip Island, the Fiat Yamaha rider finishing Friday practice just 15th on the timesheets and 2.833secs from the top.

"Today was not the day I had hoped for starting out at Phillip Island. The bike was most definitely riding me for most of today and not the other way around!" confessed the Texan. "To be honest I was just holding on for most of the time and trying to survive and, try as we might, we couldn't seem to get to a decent base setting.

"The bike felt pretty nervous and twitchy and we're definitely going to have to change a few things to get it working. Obviously Valentino's doing a lot better [fourth] with the same bike so we need to look at what he's doing to see if it can help us. We didn't even really get to a stage today where we could gauge how good the tyres were so we've really got some work to do tonight.

"I'm disappointed because I'm always so excited to come here; it's one of my favourite tracks and I haven't ridden one good lap today. Anyway, we'll have a big meeting tonight, look at the data and I have every faith that my guys will be able to turn things around as usual," concluded Colin.

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