It's all gain for Foggy in Spain

Martin improved on the team's best lap time from the 2004 race weekend at the Spanish circuit, by almost a quarter of a second.

His quickest lap time of 1:37.038, placed him in an impressive 7th position in the timesheet at the end of the morning session, in a field of increased competition for 2005 due to the return of many established two wheel manufacturers to the series, although he finished the day in 11th overall with the same time.

Team-mate McCoy was able to knock two and half seconds off his best lap time by using a qualifying tyre during the afternoon session, and finished the day in 25th place with a time of 1:38.011.

Team Manager, Jack Valentine, said: "Overall I'm really pleased with how this test has gone and the amount of positive developments we have achieved.

"Steve has found a chassis set-up that he is very comfortable with. It was great he was able to post the seventh fastest time in the morning session and eleventh overall is very encouraging.

"Garry has made progress, although struggled more than Steve to find a set-up he is totally happy with. Much of his test has been spent testing different adjustments with the longer swing arm, but we still have further work to do to get to a point where the whole package is working better for him. We have a very clear direction for the next test and race at Phillip Island."

Martin said, "I'm very happy with the progress that we've made and we're a lot closer to the pace than we were at Qatar, which is positive.

"We made a large number of changes to various areas of the bike and overall each element was in the right direction."

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Foggy Petronas Racing now heads to Phillip Island for continued testing on 26 and 27 March, ahead of the second round of the WSBK championship at 'the Island' and Martin and McCoy's home race, on Sunday 3 April.