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Aprilia's new RSV4 machine should not be at much of a disadvantage against its rivals on the Czech track, according to Italian Max Biaggi, who returns to a circuit where he has won many times in his career. During private testing at Brno, Aprilia's designated test-track, on July 1 and 2, riders and team engineers managed to establish a good base setting with which to begin the Brno weekend, as well as testing new components for the development of the four-cylinder machine.

Brno is a magic track for Biaggi, who has won eight times there, 4 in 250, 3 in 500/MotoGP and once in SBK in 2007 in race 2, while last year he picked up a fourth and a third place. In the tests, which Biaggi tackled with a cracked bone in his right foot from Donington, he recorded a best time of 2'00.75 over 122 laps.

Shinya Nakano, who ran a total of 135 laps in testing with a best time of 2'00"78, won at this circuit in 2000 in 250 GP, while last year in MotoGP he finished in fourth place in his first race on a factory Honda.

"We come from an excellent second place in Britain, where the team did a great job on the bike" declared Biaggi. "We continued the work at Brno a few days later in two days of testing during which we tested several components for the development of the RSV4 and we found a good starting base for the race. In this way we are at less of a disadvantage against our rivals. I really like this track, for me it's the best in absolute, I've always had excellent results and it adapts itself well to the characteristics of our bike. We've done a lot of work in the last few weeks and I think we can get some good results".