To prepare the 2006 MotoGP season

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Notwithstanding the Konica Minolta Honda Team will not participate at the next week winter Test in Sepang, Malaysia, the Team has begun to prepare the 2006 MotoGP season.

The 2006 material will be ready only at the beginning of the new year therefore the work done on Malaysian land wouldn't be useful for the upcoming season, when the technical package 2006 will be at the Konica Minolta Honda disposal.

The Italian-Japanese Team will have the same package next season with the Honda RC211V and prestigious technological multinational Title Sponsor Konica Minolta.

The break period will be useful to terminate the preparation of the Racing department in Verona.

Luca Montiron . Konica Minolta Honda Director

"This season has been really tough, therefore I have decided in agreement with all our partners and our rider to begin our winter preparation from January. Many discussions have been made regarding the problem to lower the expenses, but to begin from the month of November with the 2005 material it doesn't seem a good way to do it. Last year Tamada has been often one of the fastest riders during the extra European winter Tests and once arrived in Europe, the temperature variation has been one of the main causes of the missing of the feeling of the rider. For this reason, with this year experience, for us it would be better to test on circuit with lower temperatures to investigate on how to solve straight away our problems found for most of the season.