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he Althea BMW Racing Team readies itself for the torrid conditions of Malaysia
Sepang (Malaysia), Tuesday 10 May 2016
Sepang (Malaysia), Tuesday 10 May 2016
After its home round at Imola, the Althea BMW Racing Team has a much greater distance to travel this week to reach Malaysia, and the Sepang International Circuit, where round six of the 2016 Superbike World Championship is taking place this weekend.
The Sepang International Circuit is located roughly 50 km from the capital city of Kuala Lumpur. This cutting-edge racetrack facility was inaugurated in 1999 and hosts the F1 and MotoGP championships, as well as the Superbikes. The track is 5543 metres long, with 5 left-hand corners and 10 right-handers. The tropical conditions of Malaysia, with high temperatures, considerable levels of humidity and the risk of thunderstorms (often arriving during the afternoon), will surely play an important part in the weekend?s events.
Jordi Torres competed in the 2015 edition, closing race one in tenth before reaching the podium in race 2, in third place. After the encouraging results of Imola, the Spaniard is keen to improve further this coming weekend. For Markus Reiterberger on the other hand, this will be his first visit to Sepang. The young German cannot wait to learn the Malaysian track and take on this new challenge.
Jordi Torres
?I like the Sepang track but we?ll have to see how it is this time because I know they?ve resurfaced the track and modified the corner profiles. We hope for the best, but it will be the same for everyone of course. Last year didn?t go too badly, I even reached the podium in race two. We?re competitive on the straights and this will be important on the Malaysian track, but we still have to find good acceleration through the turns, that are long, and work also on traction control. Imola went quite well in the end, and so we want to continue in the same direction to develop the bike as well as possible.?
Markus Reitenberger
?I?m really looking forward to Sepang and am excited to ride this weekend, as I?ve never been to Malaysia. So I only ?know? the track from watching GP races and from seeing it on the Playstation game. I think it could be a good one for me anyway, with the long braking areas and long straights. I hope we can start with a good base setting and improve session by session. I also hope we can also solve the problems we had in Imola in terms of braking and vibration, the team has some ideas and so I?m looking forward to getting started!
Track Information:
Country: Malaysia
Name: Sepang International Circuit
Length: 5.548 km
Pole position: right
Race distance: 16 laps/88.768 km
SBK RECORDS: Best lap ? Davies (Ducati) 2?04.707 (2015). Superpole ? Guintoli (Aprilia) 2?03.002 (2014).
2015 SBK RESULTS: Race 1 ? 1. Rea (Kawasaki); 2. Davies (Ducati); 3. Biaggi (Aprilia). Race 2 ? 1. Davies (Ducati); 2. Rea (Kawasaki); 3. Torres (Aprilia)
Weekend schedule (CET +6):
Friday
10.15 ? 11.15 ? SBK Timed Practice 1
13.30 ? 14.30 ? SBK Timed Practice 2
Saturday
10.45 ? 11.00 ? SBK Free Practice
13.30 ? 13.45 ? Superpole 1
13.55 ? 14.10 ? Superpole 2
16.00 ? Race 1
Sunday
11.25 ? 11.40 ? SBK Warm-up
16.00 ? SBK Race 2
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