"We've got a good direction but honestly if it is going to rain on Saturday I'd really like to get some rain tomorrow," said Edwards. "I need to sort out this year's bike for the rain. We have a year old rain setting that works good but that setting needs to be tweaked for this year's bike. I could start the race with my old faithful rain setting and it will work, but we can make it better after what we had at
Donington in the wet."
Meanwhile, after his Donington disaster, rookie team-mate
James Toseland was just happy to get back on his M1. The 27-year-old, a WSBK race winner at Assen last season, was 13th fastest after the first day.
"The support I've received from the fans and the team has been amazing and I really appreciate it," said Toseland, who fell at the first turn of his home race last Sunday. "I'm feeling my way back to form and preparing for the race. We still have a lot of work to do to find the best setting because although I have experience of Assen on a Superbike we are starting with a clean slate.
"Basically I've gone closer to what Colin is running but we didn't do it until too late and it was quite a frustrating session," detailed James. "I got up to speed quite fast right at the end when we tried this new setting so it seems like we have found a good direction but we wasted too much time getting there.
"The bike is better on the brakes because I was losing so much rear grip on the entry of the corners that I had no corner speed with the other setting. The way this new setting transfers the weight is much smoother and doesn't move weight off the rear as quick. With the new setting I got straight into the 37s and I feel I could have built on that but we'd been going round in circles for too long.
"I just spent too much time in the garage and when I need the track time to get the bike set-up on a track I've not tested on, I can't afford to do that. I'm trying to learn the track on this bike so I need to be out there. Now we've got this setting I'm confident for tomorrow that we can move forward," JT concluded.
