Troy Corser enjoyed a podium in race one, but suffered a non-finish in race two on home turf at Phillip Island.
Unable to run with eventual winner
Troy Bayliss, the Yamaha Motor Italia rider found himself in the midst of a tough battle with the likes of
Michel Fabrizio and
Ruben Xaus to the end.
"There were some tough passes in that first race,“ he said, “I didn't panic when I got run wide a couple of times, but the bike wasn't perfect and we were moving around a bit too much. We were going as fast as we could sideways!
“Troy [Bayliss] was out of sight fairly early in the race - I chased as hard as I could, but I don't think anybody could've caught him today,” he added.
Corser had to work hard with his Yamaha Motor Italy team to find a good raceday set-up and made adjustments between races to improve it more.
In the second race, he was fast off the line – but only for the race officials, who gave him a jump-start penalty.
“They held us for far too long on the line and a few riders moved, which sort of made a couple more move,” Corser explained, “There were quite a few jump starts and I might have been judged to have done the same myself.”
Unsure if the penalty signal was for him, Corser carried on initially but fell on lap five, having led for three laps and looked strong for another podium finish at least.
“I think there was a sort of number 11 on the pit straight, but it wasn't a regular 11,” he added, “It was two different size number ones and it didn't look like an 11, so that's why I carried on. Either way, I led for three out of the four first laps and was having a good fight with Bayliss when I crashed.”
Corser was uninjured by his high-speed crash entering Siberia corner, and felt he must have slid off on fluid lying on the racing line.
“As I entered Siberia, I saw some oil on the track,” he said, “but it was too late to do anything about it and down I went. I was pretty unhappy because there weren't any flags out to warn us. I thought there would be bikes coming into the gravel trap after me.”
