Sunstate Racings’ Judd Greedy has continued to impress at the start of the 2008 season finishing first privateer and outright fifth at the World Superbikes at Phillip Island on the weekend, riding the Sunstate Honda CBR600RR in the Australian Supersport Support Races  

In Friday qualifying Judd was able to put himself in sixth position on the grid and race one on Saturday saw Judd improve almost a full second on his qualifying time with a 1m36.9 finishing fifth.

Race Two on Saturday saw Judd gaining more confidence in his machine and the Dunlop tyres finishing fourth.

For Race Three both Judd and the team decided to make more setting changes as he became more familiar with the new Dunlop rear tyre for 2008.

‘ This weekend has been the first time that I have ridden on the new tyre and we have had to change the settings quite considerably, but the tyre definitely has improved yet again and I know with a few more days to test and a few more setting changes we will go faster still’, said Judd.

For Race 4 Judd decided to take a punt and completely change the rear shock and go straight out and race on it, if he made the wrong choice he would have to complete the entire race with the changed settings as the warm up lap for the race would be the only chance he would have to test it. ‘The three yamaha factory boys at the front where just over half a second a lap quicker in the previous race and I knew that I had to try something if I wanted to match their pace, but as it turned out I made the right choice because I took nearly a full second off my personal best and finished just six tenths behind the leader over the line, it was a good feeling to finally run at the front and split up the factory boys,’ quoted Judd.

Judd’s fastest lap in the final race was 1m36.1 which was just over two tenths of a second off lap record pace, a big improvement from the 1m37.7 he set in qualifying.

‘Overall it has been a good weekend because we gained valuable set up in the lead up to the first round in two weeks time. I’m really looking forward to getting back to the creek with the new tyres because we tested well at the creek two weeks ago with the old tyre and with the new one being better again I expect the lap records to get a touch up by anyone using the new Dunlop. I can’t thank the team enough for there help this weekend because I made them make so many changes every time I went out on the track so it was good to reward them with some good lap times’ Judd said.

Tim Durie also impressed with some blisteringly fast laps on board his Superstock bike. He finished outright 3rd for the weekend and what was more impressive was the fact that he was under the current lap record on several occasions on Superstock tyres.

Sunstate Racing and Judd would also like to thank the following people for their support in the up coming season:

Sunstate Motorcycles

Dunlop Tyres

Joe Rocket

Alpine Star

AGV

Dickies Workwear

Valter Moto

Motul

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