Repsol Honda Test - RC212V - Valencia

The Repsol Honda team wrapped up the second full day of testing of their
new-for-2007 RC212V machine at Valencia today. World Champion Nicky Hayden and his Spanish team-mate Dani Pedrosa made the most of a dry track to put in valuable development work on the 800cc V4-engined bike they will campaign in the 2007 MotoGP series.

The test completes a fantastic season for the factory Honda team during which they won every major accolade available in the final year of the 990cc MotoGP era. Nicky Hayden took the riders' title, Dani Pedrosa was the Rookie of the Year, Repsol Honda captured the Team World Championship and Honda won the Constructors' title.

America's new World Champion now returns to the United States for a well-earned break in his home town of Owensboro before the winter testing programme kicks off at Sepang, Malaysia, on November 15.

Nicky Hayden  Lap time: 1m 33.03s Laps completed: 73 "The new bike's really nice and Honda's definitely done some really good work with it. The test went pretty well, though I would have liked to have gone a little quicker today and it feels like there's a little gremlin under acceleration. The way it was accelerating from second to third gear had a bit of hesitation and we'll have to work out this detail before we can go a lot further. The chassis seems quite good and there's definitely more corner speed with this bike - I think the tyres will change a lot with a different profile with more on the edge. Now I'm going back home and I think we'll have a party!"

Dani Pedrosa  Lap time: 1m 32.66s Laps completed: 67 "Today we were lucky because the weather remained dry so this was perfect and we were able to do many laps. Basically we did some tyre testing for Michelin and some more specific set-up work for the bike to continue things from yesterday. The progress was good, though it's still early and there's plenty of testing still to do before we begin again in 2007. Now I'm looking forward to getting home!"