Haga missing in action
"In Race 1 after about ten laps the performance of the rear tyre dropped dramatically. There wasn't much I could to improve" said Haga. "I'm disappointed of course because with no grip you don't really get anywhere. In the second race, having made some small changes to my bike but deciding to go with the same tyre, I had a better overall feeling and, from more or less mid-race, unlike race 1, I was able to push increasingly hard. The problem was that those ahead of me had already built a significant lead; I needed a few more laps to be able to catch some of them."
In just over one week's time, the 2009 championship runner-up will attempt to get back to the top at the Miller Motorsports Park circuit in Salt Lake City. It won't be easy however because the American track is not one of his favourites. Last year he finished eighth and ninth for Ducati, while the year before he raced for Yamaha with a broken collarbone. Nori has shown on numerous occasions that he can rise like a phoenix time and time again, it just remains to be seen if this resurgence will begin again next week in America.
