News from Valencia that Colin Edwards Goes Moto2, The last time Colin Edwards remembers riding a 600 was in the Supersport race at Daytona International Speedway in 1994. He finished ninth on a Yamaha. Fast forward 16-plus years and Edwards was back at the controls of another 600, this one the Honda-powered Tech 3 Moto2 machine of his Monster Yamaha Tech 3 junior team.
Edwards was asked by the team to use his considerable technical expertise to sort out a baseline for the team's homegrown Moto2 bike. The team is one of the few which builds its own chassis, which means only the team's two riders assist in the development. Tech 3 had limited results this year, with Yukio Takahashi winning in Barcelona, while Raffaele de Rosa was less successful. With Edwards' Monday free-he'll test the 2011 Yamaha YZF-M1 on Tuesday and Wednesday-and the team having signed two new riders, Bradley Smith and Mike Di Meglio, the team called on the Texan to get them off to a quick start.
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