Corser slates Misano modifications.

Just 0.3secs may have separated Troy Corser from countryman Troy Bayliss at the end of a two day test around the newly modified Misano race track, but their subsequent opinions of the circuit were a million miles apart.

"I didn't think there could be a better track than the old Misano but I actually like this one better. Right now it's perfect, I really love it!" beamed fastest of all Bayliss.

But fellow double world champion Corser disliked almost all of the modifications - which have seen the direction of the circuit reversed and many of the corners changed or re-profiled - and claimed the bumps that have appeared are appalling.

"The bumps are dangerous and it seems that only a new thin layer of tarmac has been put down over the old surface," explained the Yamaha Motor Italia rider. "In some corners the bumps are so bad that they cause the bike to vibrate so much that I can't see where I am going properly! And the bumps are not just in one or two places, but over most of the track!

"I have no idea why they changed the circuit round, because now the first part is a bit 'Micky-mouse' and then you get the very fast back straight where you are flat out in fifth before approaching a slow right-hander.

"Also, in other parts of the track they have increased the tarmac run-off before you get to the gravel trap, but at the end of the straight, it's just grass! I think that the bumps are so bad that they are going to have to do something about them," he warned.

Indeed, the only good thing Corser had to say about the circuit was that he and the other nine riders present at the test will have a significant advantage when it comes to the race weekend.

"This Misano is a very technical circuit in some ways and even after the best part of two days, many riders were hardly going any quicker then after the first day. But, I am happy that we went to the test because the riders who come here for the race [on June 17] and see the track for the first time will be at a huge disadvantage," he stated.

World championship leader James Toseland and Alstare Suzuki's Max Biaggi were among the riders not present at the test.