While Yamaha Italia team-mate
Noriyuki Haga charged to 2-1 race finishes in the team's home Monza event last Sunday, frustrated double world champion
Troy Corser was left wondering what had happened to his R1.
Corser suffered an excess of spinning and sliding on his way to twelfth and eighth on race day and was lucky to survive a collision with
Carlos Checa under braking for turn one.
"I am actually at a bit of a loss for words and am finding it a bit hard to understand what's exactly happening to my bike," admitted the Australian. "I don't think that my bike is that much different to Nori's but I cannot seem to get it to go as fast and smoothly into and in the turns as I would like. It just keeps spinning and sliding and that means it's not gripping and going forward fast enough.
"As far as I know, we've tried everything and it's still not right for me. I know that if I had pushed even a little bit harder I would've crashed. It's frustrating to have to ride like this just to bring the bike home, but the last thing I wanted was a couple of DNFs. I was determined to finish as high as I could in both races and that's what I did," he added.
Corser's Monza woes mean he has now slipped to sixth in the world championship standings.
